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- 0:00Speaker 1: Fifty five KR and see the talk station.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Hey thirty here fifty five KR, see the talk station.
- 0:06Speaker 2: Tuesday means a segment. I'm always looking forward to the
- 0:09Speaker 2: Daniel Davis Deep Dive. That's the name of the podcast.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Find Daniel Davis wherever you get your podcasts and check
- 0:14Speaker 2: out the retired lieutenant colonel has to say about a
- 0:16Speaker 2: variety of from matters military related, of course, another day
- 0:19Speaker 2: to talk about the situation between the United States, Iran,
- 0:22Speaker 2: and of course Israel and Hezbala, because they all seem
- 0:24Speaker 2: to be bald up into one. Welcome back, Daniel Davis.
- 0:27Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure to have you on.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Always great to be here, Brian, thanks for having me back.
- 0:31Speaker 2: A very interesting day on off, on off. Usually it
- 0:35Speaker 2: comes over spurt your washerants. Repeat. We've been joking about this.
- 0:38Speaker 2: One day, we're talking about negotiation. A few days go by,
- 0:40Speaker 2: the negotiations are off, bombs are going to start dropping,
- 0:43Speaker 2: then we're back at the table. So this seems to
- 0:44Speaker 2: be ultimately a delaying tactic. I get the impression Donald
- 0:48Speaker 2: Trump really does not want to start kinetic action, and
- 0:50Speaker 2: I know there's reasons for that which we can get to.
- 0:52Speaker 2: But yesterday he said, there's a little glitch. But I
- 0:54Speaker 2: turned that around very quickly. As you probably noticed earlier,
- 0:57Speaker 2: I spoke with Hezbala and I said no shoeing. A
- 1:00Speaker 2: talk with Bbe and they said no shooting, and they
- 1:02Speaker 2: both stopped shooting at each other.
- 1:04Speaker 1: And then.
- 1:06Speaker 2: Hours later as Ballas starts shooting at Israel again. So
- 1:09Speaker 2: it didn't work out real well. We never do start
- 1:13Speaker 2: launching a kinetic action. And you have proven yourself right.
- 1:18Speaker 2: I do believe, because I know a lot of people
- 1:20Speaker 2: were a little upset with you saying, you know, the
- 1:21Speaker 2: Iranians have a lot of missiles and a lot of
- 1:23Speaker 2: drones and they can do serious damage if we try
- 1:26Speaker 2: to open the straight of horror moves. The American military
- 1:28Speaker 2: would have opened this strait of horror mood it moves
- 1:30Speaker 2: if it had the ability to do so. Is that
- 1:33Speaker 2: a true statement there at the end, Daniel Davis.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, it for sure is.
- 1:38Speaker 3: And I get puzzled sometimes while people get aggravated at me,
- 1:42Speaker 3: and I've seen it on my own shows several times,
- 1:45Speaker 3: like Fellows, I'm just telling you what the reality is
- 1:47Speaker 3: on the ground.
- 1:48Speaker 1: If you don't like it, you know, take it up.
- 1:49Speaker 3: With Iran or US or Israel, et cetera, because that's
- 1:54Speaker 3: where the fundamentals exist. And listen, yeah, look, we wouldn't
- 1:58Speaker 3: have even gone to a ceasefire if we had the
- 2:00Speaker 3: ability to complete the job and to bring them militarily
- 2:03Speaker 3: under submission.
- 2:04Speaker 1: I mean, it would have been insane to do anything else.
- 2:06Speaker 3: There's a reason why we accepted the cease fire because
- 2:09Speaker 3: we realized we were running too low on missiles and
- 2:11Speaker 3: they had too many left that we couldn't take out.
- 2:14Speaker 3: And none of that has changed, And in fact the
- 2:15Speaker 3: only thing that has changed is that they have more
- 2:18Speaker 3: missiles now that they had because they continue to manufacture
- 2:21Speaker 3: them underground where we can't reach, and they have cleared
- 2:24Speaker 3: off a lot of the tunnels that we blocked up
- 2:26Speaker 3: with some of the missiles where we could hit those
- 2:28Speaker 3: have now been opened back up. So we're in a
- 2:32Speaker 3: less good position than we were before because our inventories
- 2:34Speaker 3: are lower and we just don't have enough to be
- 2:36Speaker 3: able to hit that target set. That's the problem.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Well, in the Iranians are dealing with an economy that's
- 2:43Speaker 2: tanking and catering. I know, inflation has gone through the
- 2:45Speaker 2: roof of the running. People are probably struggling mightily, although
- 2:48Speaker 2: I know the folks in charge really don't care what
- 2:50Speaker 2: happens to the people. They're religious fundamentalists and they're probably
- 2:53Speaker 2: eating well people be damned. They obviously are willing to
- 2:56Speaker 2: murder their own people. So this idea that we're going
- 2:58Speaker 2: to have some internal evolution to overthrowing the Iranian Revolutionary
- 3:02Speaker 2: Guard doesn't seem to be manifesting itself. So we can
- 3:05Speaker 2: wait around to see if that ultimately happens based upon
- 3:07Speaker 2: basically a starving population. But we still have We still
- 3:11Speaker 2: have their ports closed, they have the Straight of Horror
- 3:13Speaker 2: moves close. So is this are we in a battle
- 3:15Speaker 2: of attrition?
- 3:18Speaker 3: Well, we kind of are, though I would I would
- 3:20Speaker 3: take a bit issue with the characterization there. The Iranian
- 3:22Speaker 3: leadership does care about their people, and the people aren't
- 3:25Speaker 3: just like held captive. I mean, they're protesting almost every
- 3:28Speaker 3: night in support of what their country is doing, holding rallies,
- 3:32Speaker 3: et cetera.
- 3:32Speaker 1: Because they view this as.
- 3:34Speaker 3: Everybody against them, and even those and I've talked to
- 3:37Speaker 3: some of them on by show, even those who were
- 3:39Speaker 3: adamantly opposed to the regime, now then they are supporting them.
- 3:43Speaker 3: The whole rally around the flag thing because they're being
- 3:45Speaker 3: attacked and bombed, et cetera during the active phase, and
- 3:48Speaker 3: they're being blockaded right now, and for sure they definitely
- 3:51Speaker 3: are because they've told me this as well.
- 3:53Speaker 1: The inflection is through the roof.
- 3:55Speaker 3: They're shortages of a lot of things. But they view
- 3:57Speaker 3: this as an existential threat you as you point out there,
- 4:01Speaker 3: and therefore they are used to dealing with this. They
- 4:04Speaker 3: have done with this before because of sanctions, because of
- 4:06Speaker 3: the war against them with Iraq, et cetera. So they
- 4:08Speaker 3: know how to suffer and they feel like this is
- 4:10Speaker 3: an imposed situation. So they'll suffer for a long time.
- 4:14Speaker 3: I think, longer than we would be able to, especially
- 4:16Speaker 3: if those blockades remain in effect.
- 4:18Speaker 2: Well, two components of everyone is against them. Well, with
- 4:21Speaker 2: the exception of I think what we probably thought, and
- 4:25Speaker 2: I'm guessing you probably have much better information than me,
- 4:27Speaker 2: that the regional Arab nations would have come to our
- 4:31Speaker 2: side and aid and defense, and yet that never happened.
- 4:34Speaker 2: We've talked about this before, Daniel Davis. They have not
- 4:36Speaker 2: because they realized that much like trying to send ships
- 4:39Speaker 2: through the Strait of Horror Mouz, the minute that something
- 4:42Speaker 2: goes wrong or they side with the Americans, the Iranian
- 4:44Speaker 2: is going to start launching missiles at them like Kuwait
- 4:46Speaker 2: received the other day. I mean, so they're not They're
- 4:49Speaker 2: step They're holding back, and I think it seems to
- 4:52Speaker 2: me becoming more critical of the United States action of this.
- 4:55Speaker 2: Do the Iranian people along the lines of what you said,
- 4:57Speaker 2: take inspiration from the the failures of both Russia and
- 5:01Speaker 2: the United States in Afghanistan, Like Lixen, we can hold
- 5:04Speaker 2: out now those people that you know, those two countries
- 5:06Speaker 2: were in Afghanistan for more than two decades and look
- 5:09Speaker 2: who had to leave, turning tail and running away without
- 5:11Speaker 2: accomplishing anything. We the Iran Runtian people can do that
- 5:14Speaker 2: as well.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Yes they do.
- 5:17Speaker 3: They actually have sought that example many times because they do.
- 5:22Speaker 3: They feel like just like the Taliban outlasted us, just
- 5:25Speaker 3: like the muja Hadeen Alasta, the Soviets, just like the
- 5:28Speaker 3: continue on with Hezbola, with Hamas and the Houthis have
- 5:32Speaker 3: they have outlasted everything in the US and Israel has
- 5:35Speaker 3: brought to bear and they still remained viable. They say
- 5:38Speaker 3: we can do the same thing because they see the
- 5:40Speaker 3: resources on our side are are not inexhaustible, and the
- 5:44Speaker 3: issues especially you point out why the gold Fair of
- 5:46Speaker 3: regimes haven't been more active in helping us because they
- 5:49Speaker 3: realized the same thing I talked about at the top
- 5:52Speaker 3: of this. They see that there's no military solution and
- 5:54Speaker 3: we can't knock out their missial capability. Therefore, if we
- 5:57Speaker 3: go back to war, it's gonna get even worse because
- 6:00Speaker 3: they can't be defended. We couldn't stop the missiles from
- 6:02Speaker 3: falling on the Gulf Arab regimes, and they wouldn't happen
- 6:05Speaker 3: the next time either, and it would cause permanent damage
- 6:08Speaker 3: instead of the partial damage it has so far. So
- 6:11Speaker 3: they just want this thing to be over and get
- 6:13Speaker 3: back to making money and selling.
- 6:14Speaker 2: Oil well over at this point, I mean, if we just,
- 6:17Speaker 2: let's say, theoretically pull the plug, or you know, maybe
- 6:19Speaker 2: it's an election in November and Donald Trump loses the
- 6:21Speaker 2: House and the Senate, they pass the word Powers resolution
- 6:24Speaker 2: that says pull the plug completely, that leaves the Iranians
- 6:27Speaker 2: and control the straight of horror moves, and they're going
- 6:29Speaker 2: to work that to their advantage, because that's what they're
- 6:31Speaker 2: trying to do right now. I mean, it's a it's obviously,
- 6:33Speaker 2: we as we in the entire world, have learned a vital,
- 6:36Speaker 2: critical piece of waterway there.
- 6:39Speaker 3: Well, listen to the Iranians have been nothing but absolutely
- 6:43Speaker 3: consistent on this point. They say, we will never ever
- 6:46Speaker 3: give up control the Straight of Horror moves. They said,
- 6:48Speaker 3: whether it's negotiated settlement, whether you walk away, or anything else,
- 6:51Speaker 3: there is no scenario where we give away control over
- 6:56Speaker 3: the Straight of Horror moves.
- 6:56Speaker 1: I mean, they've codified it into a system.
- 6:59Speaker 3: Now they're working with the country of Blah because the
- 7:02Speaker 3: territorial waters overlap in the middle of the strait. So
- 7:05Speaker 3: they say, no, that's it, this is just the way
- 7:07Speaker 3: it's going to be forward, So work it out however
- 7:09Speaker 3: you want. Now that being said, they still need the
- 7:12Speaker 3: work to come to an end because they need the
- 7:14Speaker 3: blockade on their stuff to come off, and so they
- 7:16Speaker 3: realize they're going to have to negotiate. And this morning
- 7:19Speaker 3: there's been a lot of statements from Iatola's, from several
- 7:22Speaker 3: religious leaders and government leaders emphasizing to the people this
- 7:25Speaker 3: is in Persian, saying hey, look, I know a lot
- 7:27Speaker 3: of people don't want us to negotiate, but we have
- 7:29Speaker 3: to because that's just how you manufacture power.
- 7:33Speaker 1: It has to be both strength and negotiations that we
- 7:35Speaker 1: got to do both.
- 7:36Speaker 3: So even if you may not lock everything, we're going
- 7:38Speaker 3: to have to do it implying that they're ready to
- 7:41Speaker 3: make some.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Concessions if they can get the things that they have
- 7:44Speaker 1: to have to have.
- 7:45Speaker 3: But here's the big problem. Two of the things they
- 7:47Speaker 3: have to have are control the straight and the Israel
- 7:50Speaker 3: has to stop its war against Lebanon. And that seems
- 7:52Speaker 3: to be the longest pull in the tent.
- 7:54Speaker 2: Huh well, theoretically, and I appreciate the complications involved in
- 8:01Speaker 2: this suggestion. Hey, one of my listeners talk about all
- 8:04Speaker 2: these twenty years supply contract with various countries in the
- 8:06Speaker 2: Middle East are coming to an end, and these the
- 8:08Speaker 2: folks that are part of those contracts, the countries that
- 8:11Speaker 2: want to purchase the oil have obvious options in the
- 8:14Speaker 2: world to go out, like, for example, the United States,
- 8:17Speaker 2: who which is a washing and oil. We've now got
- 8:19Speaker 2: the Venezuela and oil production going on that's going to
- 8:21Speaker 2: be refined, so that's a source of oil. Are there
- 8:23Speaker 2: enough alternative sources that we could just say, you know what,
- 8:26Speaker 2: We've been dealing with this stuff for longer than I've
- 8:28Speaker 2: been alive since World War Two. We're just going to
- 8:31Speaker 2: wash our hands of this. There's enough oil in the world.
- 8:33Speaker 2: This isn't an OPEC era dominated era. Fine, go ahead,
- 8:37Speaker 2: you know, close the straight up horror moves. We don't
- 8:39Speaker 2: need it anything.
- 8:40Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of misunderstanding about how the oil
- 8:44Speaker 3: industry works. That is not the case. There is not
- 8:47Speaker 3: plenty of oil. We are not a Washington oil A
- 8:49Speaker 3: lot of people aren't aware. We are a net oil importer.
- 8:52Speaker 3: So we have to import. I want to say it's
- 8:54Speaker 3: like three to four million barrels a day more than
- 8:56Speaker 3: we export because we export a lot of things, but
- 8:58Speaker 3: we also have to import. And you talk about the
- 9:01Speaker 3: Venezuelan oil for example, that is heavy crew which can
- 9:05Speaker 3: only be refined in a few places that it can
- 9:07Speaker 3: only be turned into certain products. We have light sweet
- 9:10Speaker 3: crude which can be refined into like gasoline, but not
- 9:13Speaker 3: into things like diesel et cetera.
- 9:15Speaker 1: Jet fuel.
- 9:16Speaker 3: That's one of the biggest productions out of the Middle
- 9:18Speaker 3: East that there is in the world. It's a huge
- 9:20Speaker 3: percentage of it, etc. So it's not just the total
- 9:23Speaker 3: amount of oil, but it's what kind of oil and
- 9:26Speaker 3: what does it turn into that feeds the global economy.
- 9:29Speaker 3: And there's so much incredible important things out of the
- 9:32Speaker 3: Gulf itself, like fertilizer thirty five percent of it, aluminum, helium,
- 9:37Speaker 3: several other things that you don't normally think of when
- 9:39Speaker 3: you think of oil or natural gas, but those things
- 9:42Speaker 3: are all blocked off. So it is critical and devastating
- 9:46Speaker 3: to the global economy. Every day this continues to go on.
- 9:49Speaker 2: Well, that's why I ask you the question, Daniel. I mean,
- 9:51Speaker 2: I think people think you've made a certain measure of
- 9:53Speaker 2: credibility beyond me, and it can explain a little bit better.
- 9:55Speaker 2: It's not just going to be all rainbows and puppy
- 9:58Speaker 2: dogs and unicors, because we're going to get all these
- 10:00Speaker 2: oil contracts. Oil is a global market, and even if
- 10:04Speaker 2: we decide not to do business in the Middle East ourselves,
- 10:06Speaker 2: the rest of the world has to deal with it,
- 10:07Speaker 2: and the price of oil will be impacted by the
- 10:10Speaker 2: global demand and supply. So I hate to have to
- 10:14Speaker 2: ask this question, where does this leave us, Daniel, Well,
- 10:20Speaker 2: it leads.
- 10:20Speaker 3: Us in a position to where, for the first time,
- 10:23Speaker 3: I think in our lifetimes, we have a major international
- 10:27Speaker 3: crisis problem. Whatever you want to call it that we
- 10:30Speaker 3: cannot solve with our power because we want to just
- 10:33Speaker 3: impose our will and say, look, either you do this
- 10:34Speaker 3: or we're going to blow you up. Well, we've tried that,
- 10:37Speaker 3: and they can endure that blowing up, and for the
- 10:39Speaker 3: first time, they can also fire back in the ways
- 10:42Speaker 3: that we can't defend against. We've never been in this situation.
- 10:45Speaker 3: So we're going to have to either do something and
- 10:47Speaker 3: I know a lot of people are going to hate this,
- 10:49Speaker 3: they definitely do in.
- 10:50Speaker 1: The White House.
- 10:50Speaker 3: We're either going to have to concede something to them
- 10:53Speaker 3: in order to get something from them, and they're open
- 10:55Speaker 3: to that, or we're gonna have.
- 10:57Speaker 1: To just say we all right, we're going to walk away.
- 10:59Speaker 3: Because if we say all right, get it, I don't
- 11:00Speaker 3: care you didn't give me what I wanted, we're going
- 11:02Speaker 3: to go back to a war. Then we're gonna just
- 11:06Speaker 3: devastate our economy, the global economy, because they have the
- 11:10Speaker 3: capacity beyond our desires, to strike back in ways we
- 11:13Speaker 3: can't endure. And that's the problem that too few people understand.
- 11:18Speaker 3: We don't get to just call the shots this time.
- 11:20Speaker 3: We're going to have to negotiate, and if we want
- 11:22Speaker 3: to get something. This time, we're going to have to
- 11:25Speaker 3: give something.
- 11:26Speaker 2: Seems to be a collective failure of the decision makers
- 11:30Speaker 2: leading up to this initial attack to contemplate the complexity
- 11:35Speaker 2: or do you think that they actually factored this in
- 11:37Speaker 2: the equation and thought that that initial strike on the
- 11:40Speaker 2: thirty plus military leaders was going to decapitate the regime
- 11:43Speaker 2: a la Maduro. Gross over calculation on that, as it
- 11:46Speaker 2: turns out. But are we just being Hindsight's twenty twenty
- 11:49Speaker 2: or was this information readily available to the decision makers?
- 11:52Speaker 1: It was definitely available.
- 11:53Speaker 3: I've talked to Joe Kennet, who resigned as the number
- 11:56Speaker 3: two the OD and I, the Director of National Intelligence,
- 11:59Speaker 3: just couple of days ago, and reiterate. He reiterated that
- 12:02Speaker 3: to me, he said every bit of this was was
- 12:05Speaker 3: pleading to his people inside the White House that were
- 12:08Speaker 3: pleading with the President that it was likely that they
- 12:10Speaker 3: were going to take the straight of horror moonies, that
- 12:12Speaker 3: we couldn't knock out their missile factories, and then it
- 12:14Speaker 3: was going to definitely.
- 12:15Speaker 1: You know, harm our national economy in ways that.
- 12:18Speaker 3: We can't rectify easily or quickly, and that the people
- 12:21Speaker 3: weren't going to rise up against the Ietola and the
- 12:24Speaker 3: decapitation wasn't going to take out their system of government.
- 12:26Speaker 3: We told them all of those things ahead of time.
- 12:29Speaker 3: But there was another group that says, no, no, no,
- 12:31Speaker 3: they're wrong.
- 12:32Speaker 1: Actually it will it'll be like Maduro. It'll be like Venezuela.
- 12:35Speaker 3: As soon as you take out these guys, they'll just
- 12:37Speaker 3: fall apart. They've never been more weak than they are,
- 12:39Speaker 3: and et cetera. Turned out that that was actually just
- 12:42Speaker 3: a myth and a claim that these people who wanted
- 12:45Speaker 3: the war were selling it. They were never weaker than
- 12:47Speaker 3: they had been in all these years. They were as
- 12:49Speaker 3: strong as they had ever been. It was kind of
- 12:51Speaker 3: just a normal state. They weren't that weak. So President
- 12:54Speaker 3: Trump was sold to bill of goods by a lot
- 12:56Speaker 3: of people who should know better, and unfortunately he listened
- 12:59Speaker 3: to them instead of the group that.
- 13:01Speaker 1: I just described.
- 13:02Speaker 2: Finding ourselves in a quagmire. Hmm, snafu, Charlie Fox Trot.
- 13:08Speaker 2: Throw it into some category. It's reality. It's cold water.
- 13:14Speaker 2: We're gonna it's cold water reality, but it's reality. Nonetheless,
- 13:18Speaker 2: you know, I appreciate you. You're just pointing, putting a
- 13:21Speaker 2: point on everything, and providing us with all the information
- 13:25Speaker 2: we need to know. Because we seem to be in
- 13:26Speaker 2: a very major, major problem. They have to put one
- 13:29Speaker 2: of the l column, Daniel Davis, and I hate to
- 13:30Speaker 2: have to say that out loud on a two hundred
- 13:32Speaker 2: and fifteth anniversary.
- 13:33Speaker 1: You know, like a businessman man, sometimes you got to
- 13:35Speaker 1: put an L in there.
- 13:36Speaker 3: If it's a losing proposition, don't dig deeper, don't throw
- 13:41Speaker 3: more money down the pit, cut it off, say it's
- 13:43Speaker 3: a bad situation, and move on to something else, which
- 13:46Speaker 3: we can do.
- 13:46Speaker 2: Yeah, and looming behind that reality the sand situation with
- 13:50Speaker 2: regard to our arms, as you mentioned a moment ago.
- 13:52Speaker 2: I mean, we have a finite amount of arms. We've
- 13:54Speaker 2: used a lot of them, and there may be future
- 13:56Speaker 2: battles to wage, which is problematic for the United States
- 13:59Speaker 2: of America. Daniel Davis Deep Dive find your podcast where
- 14:02Speaker 2: you are find him on where you find your podcast.
- 14:04Speaker 2: We'll do this again next Tuesday. Maybe we'll get some
- 14:06Speaker 2: good news. I keep saying that, Daniel, but I can
- 14:08Speaker 2: like to I can hope again.
- 14:10Speaker 3: Fact that it runs is sand this morning telling their people, hey,
- 14:12Speaker 3: we need to have to negotiated settlement means that there
- 14:14Speaker 3: is a window open there, so maybe nixt Tuesday we'll
- 14:17Speaker 3: be able to go through.
- 14:18Speaker 2: It Fingers crossed. Daniel Davis, thank you so much. Have
- 14:20Speaker 2: a great week between now and then, Sir A forty
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