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Iran war update: Operations, casualties, Hormuz, and the information battlefield · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  It's the tip of the spare in the epic battle to defend the United States of America.
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  The National Security Hour exposes the wolves in sheep's clothing and the nefarious plots to undermine and destroy U.S.
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  national security.
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  Welcome back, America.
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  This is your host, Fred Galman on Thursday, the 26th of March, 2026.
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  And now it's time for the national security hour.
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  Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, it's very important.
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  It may sound a bit repetitive, but we have American service members, the sons and daughters of our nation right now as we speak in war and going to war, which is a very serious matter.
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  And that is why it is important to give another update on what is going on in Iran.
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  And especially it's important because there is a lot of disinformation, and I will say it's beyond that.
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  It meets the threshold of information warfare regarding not just what's going on, but what organizations who are paid professionals for certain countries are out there using media and omnichannel media, social media to create this demoralization and to present information which is not factually correct.
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  And that is why our show tonight is so critically important, and is important for those of you who are listening to send this to uh many who believe that this war was unjust, unprovoked.
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  We've talked about this in the past, but we wanted to today focus on the tail of the tape of actually what is going on because there's a lot of information that uh people have seen videos, and it's not fact checked, it's not credible, but it looks that way.
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  And as any I've never been in the Secret Service, but is the Secret Service who has a mission besides just protecting key executives in the U.S.
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  government, but to stop counterfeiting, and as they will tell you, the the best counterfeits are the ones that are closest to the truth, the the ones that look and feel uh completely authentic.
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  And that's what we're seeing with some of these fake news media reports.
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  Fake news is actually uh in progress and it's real, and it's causing a lot of Americans to become divided because they're getting information which may have some contain some facts, but it's in many ways it that's that's where it leaves off.
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  The rest of it is is false.
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  It's showing uh and I've seen some of these uh of American ships that have been sunk and how we're running out of ammunition and how the there is substantial amount of these going out there, and these are created by our foreign intelligence units, and they have great effect when they're launched on social media platforms, and it looks completely authentic, and people start to uh and they they know what they're doing.
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  Obviously, they study psychology, they know the strongest human emotion that can compel someone is through fear, and it's that's what it's designed to do is to target certain audiences in the United States and also around the world, but they have a target audience here in the United States that uh they are they are really amplifying this message and this narrative that America's losing this war, we're almost out of ammunition that's costing us so much, and we need to get to the facts of that.
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  So that's why today I want to talk about we'll first dive into the tale of the tape as far as what is going on regarding the casualties, what are the facts on both sides?
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  And some of these material uh losses are not the exact numbers are not given because some of that is classified.
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  We cannot lay out all of our cards of exactly everything that was lost, but we're going to go with what we know and what is available that is unclassified to report.
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  And uh, like I've said to people before, uh, you know, some people you know may not enjoy hearing you know, these facts, but they will be facts, and I encourage anybody if it is not factually correct, let me know.
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  If it's if it's classified, you know, you can report me.
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  But I'm getting all this from uh vetted sources of the most current information, and as I've said in the last week's show, this is constantly changing.
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  So there could be information that happens in the next, you know, from when I'm saying this to when you listen to it, uh, that can definitely change.
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  And I will say this, it will change.
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  So, but it from the time I'm reading this and have pulled these facts.
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  This is where we stand, and it's important to understand.
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  So let's frame this that this is costing both sides, and it is causing some destabilization.
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  But the United States is launching this very kinetic war.
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  Iran is responding both kinetically, and they also are responding in an asymmetric way, using information warfare to enter the cognitive space in Americans' minds to make it seem like this is a lost cause to create fear, especially in many of these uh individuals who are you know, they may have loved ones overseas, and it's it's wreaking havocs.
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  But we're going to go to the tail of the tape, and most of this is able to be uh fact-check me.
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  I pulled a lot of this uh from Reuters, and um which I believe is accurately been reporting the facts that they've been given from the public affairs office from the Central Command down in Tampa, Florida for the United States.
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  Uh that's the organization in the U.S.
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  Department of War that focuses and has control and authority of American forces in the Middle East.
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  But as of right now, February 28th, or as of right now, the 26th of March, since this war that we have launched in Iran on the 28th of February, we have uh experienced the following casualties.
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  Uh 13 U.S.
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  service members have been killed uh so far, and a separate 200 Americans have been wounded.
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  And we're gonna get into uh how severe most of those are just a little bit, but most of them have been assessed as minor injuries.
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  Uh so which which is significant.
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  We've had uh seven of those 13 who were killed in action from on the American side.
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  Um they were from missile and drone strikes on base, and then obviously we had six loss from the KC-135 refueling um aircraft, uh Air Force uh aircraft that was attacked, and and all personnel on that were killed.
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  But uh, besides that incident, seven others were killed from missile and drone strikes, which is terrible.
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  Uh, just like those 13 that we lost at Abbey Gate, uh, which unfortunately the left just did not seem to uh focus on very much at all.
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  Uh but any loss of American lives uh from our adversary is something that every American should be concerned with, and it should not be a political contentious point.
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  It should be something that our nation grieves uh to every last man and woman in America.
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  So now I will cover a little bit more in depth the 200 American personnel who have been wounded in action.
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  As I said before, the majority were assessed as minor injuries, and we've actually had 10.
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  Um, and this is um plus or minus, I'll say um that are serious injuries.
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  And it's uh that's how the Central Command wanted to keep that, but around 10 that were serious, Andrew, most of those 200 have been returned to duty already.
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  Um, and we did lose uh one uh U.S.
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  Air Force F-15.
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  The pilot uh did survive, and the uh there is a report of one F 35 that was hit and damaged by Iranian fire, and uh the aircraft did survive and did an emergency landing.
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  But of the thousands of aircraft sorties, uh, those three aircraft were the ones that were hit.
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  Again, why am I saying this?
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  Because there are so many reports that the number is in, you know, you know, coming up on half a dozen.
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  That's that is not correct.
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  Three aircraft that have been hit, and two were destroyed, and one.
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  Was able to land.
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  It's not this number that's any higher than that.
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  So those aircraft losses are very limited.
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  And the U.S.
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  Central Command did confirm that the first U.S.
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  stealth aircraft was actually hit.
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  And you can hit a stealth aircraft.
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  I won't go into the details of what happened in this incident.
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  It may be stealth on radar, but you can visually acquire it if you see it during day.
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  So there is different tactics that we can use, and we won't get into all those of what exactly happened in this situation.
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  Um that had occurred, but there's also with that uh F-15 reports of friendly fire incident uh due to the complexity of the coalition airspace.
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  That's with the manned aircraft.
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  Now we're going to talk about some losses in U.S.
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  equipment because there's been no personnel actually uh on board some of the unmanned aircraft, and we're talking about this Raytheon MQ-9 uh armed surveillance reaper.
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  These are we've had 12 plus or minus.
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  I'll just say it is that a dozen of these armed reaper.
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  These are intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance, uh, as well as some of these are armed.
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  These are strike platforms.
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  Um we use all across the theater, and uh they're not fast moving.
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  They're they're not stealth, they're a little bit easier to detect, and there's tactics uh to uh offset their acquisition by the adversary, but we have lost 12 of these, and they're very high value platform that's uh very expensive, and especially if it's damaged and recovered and uh re-engineered, uh they can uh there's there's a lot of information intelligence that that can be uh utilized by the enemy in those, but we want to also now focus on some of these reports, and I'm gonna again talk about the facts regarding naval platforms.
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  Uh so far, there has been zero uh reported by the Fifth Fleet commander in charge of the naval forces in the Middle East or the U.S.
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  Central Command, no confirmed U.S.
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  warships as far as a combat loss from our adversary.
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  We did have USS Gerald Ford uh damage report of an onboard fire, and that was non-combat related temporary impact.
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  Did require uh withdrawing out of the immediate area of operation for some uh temporary withdrawals, temporary withdrawal for repairs, but uh there was no confirmed combat sinking or destruction of any major American vessel at all.
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  And then when we put that into perspective of what we have done inside, you know, it's been reported about 7800 plus or minus strikes that America has conducted into Iran, uh, destroying almost the entire Iranian Navy, 120 plus vessels that were damaged or uh destroyed, which is significant to have uh the majority of their naval forces sitting at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
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  Uh so our losses on the U.S.
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  side have been relatively low with 13 killed in action, again, tragic, and 200 wounded in action with approximately 10 of those being severely wounded.
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  And we've had so far uh one KC-130 destroyed.
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  Um we've had uh downing of uh F-15 and one uh F-35 as well as 12 unmanned aircraft with the reapers.
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  But uh as far as the Navy, and this is something that uh is very concerning for many people, especially those that have loved ones out there, as I know some of my friends do have uh some of their loved ones out there on naval ships, but no combat losses.
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  Uh just one carrier temporarily degraded due to uh nothing having to do with Iran.
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  Uh, but these are uh real losses, and they are significant, especially those who have uh family members involved, but all America should be concerned and not voting and rooting for the enemy and trying to say anything that would give Iran an upper hand in any of these types of casualties.
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  These casualties have been limited, um, relatively limited, and we still retain dominance in the air and uh maritime domains.
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  Uh so let's go into some of the Iranian losses that we have.
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  Excuse me.
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  Significant personnel.
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  Um these are reports.
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  It's very difficult to without having boots on the ground, have true accurate.
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  And I say that because I've been on the end where people have said numbers and speaking as their their facts.
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  I'm saying these are estimates now because we can't accurately report on what's going on on the Iranian side, but it's an estimated that approximately 1,500 personnel have been killed, and that includes senior commanders, uh senior Moolah leaders, um, the IRGC members, and then a lot of key personnel with very technical training on air defense.
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  Uh those those have been attrited.
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  Thousands, uh, exact numbers, very unclear as far as their wounded.
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  And as I had reported, uh almost the entire Iranian Navy has been destroyed and damaged, 120 plus vehicles.
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  That includes mine laying vessels, patrol boats, fast attack vehicles.
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  And then when you look at how we establish air dominance to continue and to accelerate uh the bombardment of Iran, their air defense and missile forces, there's significant degradation of their ballistic missile launchers, their drone launcher sites, their drone manufacturing sites, and their air defense and surface air missile sites.
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  So all this is significantly leading to a mass reduction in Iranian strike tempo, and it's I won't say obliterated, but it's massively affected and decreased uh the Iranians' missile and drone capabilities uh as well as their uh aerospace capabilities is uh as far as aircraft has pretty much been annihilated.
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  They've had significant damage and infrastructure to their military bases, their naval facilities, um, and some of their infant energy and uh logistics nodes.
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  So it has not been a fair fight.
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  It has not been something that America is either significantly damaged or destroyed or out of ammunition or ready to capitulate as it has been, stated in the news.
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  But don't go away.
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  We're gonna go break and we'll be right back with more right after this.
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  Uh so uh we want to talk about some of the asymmetric threats, so don't go away.
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  Welcome back, America.
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  We are picking back up where we left off with we just finished discussing the tail of the tape of the American and Iranian military losses as far as personnel that were wounded, killed and uh material military material, significant material that was uh destroyed and damaged.
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  But now we want to talk about what that means to Iran and their ability to continue to wage war and some of the resiliency that they have uh exists in what I'm about ready to say in these spaces, but it militarily, as far as their offensive kinetic something that they can strike our ships with uh has been significantly degraded.
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  Now the space they operate on is in these following realms, as I mentioned before, with their asymmetric warfare, they they are very good at using psychological and information warfare to to create this fear and to seed disinformation and plant seeds that carry a lot of weight and they do a lot of damage, uh especially inside our United States, where uh people and a certain political party want to instead of making America great and trying to encourage and support those Americans that are in harm's way, they want to uh take their hatred out on one individual and just destroy he or anything that he may be doing.
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  Uh, and they're doing that unfortunately on a daily basis through psychological and information warfare, which you can see is having a big effect on uh those not just in America, but those around the world.
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  I see this um wherever I go, and uh is very unfortunate.
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  But besides the information warfare, they also Iranians are continuing as the worldwide's largest supporter and financer of terrorism.
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  They have these proxy forces, and we mentioned this on several shows in the past.
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  Uh so they have these assets across the region in the Middle East that are conducting attacks on U.S.
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  Navy ships unsuccessfully right now.
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  Uh, we've learned a lot of valuable lessons, and uh, but the Houthis who have who have been firing for over four years, and it largely went unreported during the last administration.
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  There was several attacks against our naval vessels in the Middle East, and these same proxy forces um are conducting uh missile and drone attacks and different every type of attack they can with mortars.
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  This is going on as we speak, and I've had uh had some of my friends, um, some of their loved ones have been uh impacted by this.
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  That's all I'll say, I'll leave it at that.
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  But uh, they are attacking our American forces in our Iraq and Syria and in Jordan and places throughout the Middle East.
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  And this is this is serious, is this is not Iran directly.
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  This is people who Iran has trained, who they've given equipment to, and who you know, they're paying their financing the militias across the Middle East to attack American forces and also uh Israeli forces, but we're talking today focused on uh the United States, uh except for this next bit, which is how Iran is really choking out the world in regards to the Straits of Hormuz and they're controlling the energy uh through that disruption that they have a little choke point there, and they focused on that tactic for decades.
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  They knew that they cannot uh go toe-to-toe with a superpower such as the United States, they realize that.
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  So there's a communist tactic that's called impose costs, and communist communists don't use it exclusively, but China continually um puts this in their doctrine, same with the Russians is to impose costs, and that's exactly what's going on right now, is just to inflict pain financially on countries, and this is what's going on, and they're doing it, I think, to their own detriment because that's going to bolster, in my opinion, my estimate that some of these Gulf states, which are losing significant, you know, financial resources the longer this goes on.
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  And when you reinforce that with how Iran has been firing missile and drone attacks on civilian infrastructure with Gulf state nations, this is I believe something that's going to work against Iran in the long run.
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  And especially when they're launching uh attacks and hitting longer range targets that's threatening other nations inside Europe.
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  And if it hits assets like it has before with uh British assets and led to the death of a French uh service member, this again is something that I think in the long run, uh, you know, it may be just because of the egos of some of these mulas who are now uh calling the shots, but it's it's going to be devastating as more and more um forces are aligned in some form or fashion to either restore the energy distribution through the either the Straits of Hormuz or in more challenging and less uh effective ways through pipelines, but they're they're going to figure out ways to bypass um our Iran.
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  I do believe what Iran's doing is very short-lived and will be found a way to breach that obstacle.
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  But they are imposing cost and creating this instability, which is expanding now.
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  But um, you know, we see the the use of longer range missiles and the potential threat of those missiles impacting uh military sites as far away as um the potential to strike Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
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  So this is something that we are having to recalculate our military leaders as well as I am I'm willing to you know wager that our adversaries, our peer adversaries, Russia and China are sharing information, and as they have a significant amount of uh strategic assets in space and uh collecting information on where American assets are, particularly uh either on the ground or maritime forces, that information being shared is does put our US forces at great risk, and we have to continually um be vigilant in our forces to um you know be outside of a weapons engagement zone, and when we do for reasons, move inside that weapons engagement zone, it's it's uh for brief periods where it's uh limited harder to detect and further away from certain known assets that have the range to uh impact our our assets, but we're constantly looking to uh focus on the offensive fight while maintaining a defensive fight.
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  But but bottom line in all this is there are real losses on both sides.
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  Uh, but uh the U.S.
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  losses they're very limited.
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  Uh Iranian losses, they're very, very heavy.
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  And I believe as now we've established dominance in the airspace, although there have been uh uh losses to our aircraft, and they're likely continue to be.
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  I believe uh the number of sorties, which has been increasing, is going to inflict greater.
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  So when you look at a massive comparison, there's going to be much more to a higher coefficient as far as the number of casualties on the Iranian side.
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  And I think we're just going to continue that pounding.
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  I believe many will look at, you know, okay, without congressional approval, we have 60 days.
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  So I believe the U.S.
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  is going to continue to surge assets as much as we can to dominate tactically and reduce those strategic assets inside Iran.
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  But but what has already gone on is significant in as far as the losses and shaping what's going on in Iran and their decision making, which is why we I believe we're seeing right now.
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  Uh Donald Trump has mentioned, and hopefully, when this is uh listened to by the listeners, you're you're able to hopefully we have some favorable news as far as at least some um agreement and talks that are ongoing as we speak um on when the Straits of Hormuz can be opened back up.
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  And I think that could be a huge win uh possibly on both sides, but there is some negotiations going on right now, and and that is that's showing that this administration um is not just one sided.
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  A lot of people feel that, oh, you know, they're just quick to react.
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  And the deal was on the 27th of February that Iran walked away from the table was that they would be allowed to have nuclear energy for civilian purposes for free forever.
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  And if you can't accept that.
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  Uh that is an unbelievable deal.
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  I take that.
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  Uh if if somebody said, Hey, you have to give up something, but you'll get energy for free for the rest of your life.
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  That's that's amazing.
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  It's almost too good to be true.
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  But that was the deal, and they walked away from the table.
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  So, bottom line is the rhetoric that Iran has stated for decades as far as death to America, death to Israel.
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  And uh they they do mean that, and they are working on the means to make that a reality.
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  So there's rhetoric now, but we don't want reality.
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  And when certain people, and it can be just like I mentioned in the last episode at the close, when you had a former director of counterterrorism center saying that you know there was no imminent threat.
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  We don't need and we don't want to have a loaded gun up against our head with a hammer cock.
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  That's an imminent threat.
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  That's what you want to provide some space and some ways out, but trying to say that that's that's our end state.
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  That's what we're seeking before we take any action.
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  That's that's absurd.
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  Uh Iran has been working towards this.
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  They they would not stop, they walked away from the table, and they eventually in time, whether they manufacture it themselves or they buy it from somebody else, that would have been the reality and a very dangerous reality that no one either in the Middle East as you're seeing these airports and uh civilian targets attacked across the Middle East with Gulf State Nations.
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  Nobody wants that.
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  Uh, but we want this fighting to end, and that's exactly what uh the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Dan Cain has been saying is you know, he wants this fighting to end.
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  And that's what we're doing with our war department, the stick and the carrot with our State Department is we want to reach some type of an agreement, but we're not going to let up.
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  We're we're easing off temporarily uh to provide some breathing room and not to allow the Iranians to regroup and to buy time, but to allow them to understand that we are serious about negotiations.
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  We want to have free and fair trade and uh have access through uh incredibly vital choke points, such as the Straits of Hormuz, uh, but we will not back off as far as the use of force to make sure that you know they do understand that.
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  Okay, so now let's uh discuss some of these targets that Iran when uh people say there's a lot of this fake news or information warfare saying that America or Israel has focused on uh civilian targeting and through a tomahawk or it's it's been alleged, but since we and there's been no means, you know, nobody's wanting to allow uh international press or investigators in to see if these 100 alleged 120, the numbers been wildly reported as far as the actual how many casualties occurred, but these uh alleged deaths at a woman uh children's school um for young young girls.
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  We don't know what those facts are, but we'd love to know, and just like these negotiations going on in Pakistan right now.
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  Um we should have people be able to go in and investigate, but it's I guess too high risk right now, and that that says something.
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  But when you look at the flip side of the coin on what Iran is doing, Iran is the one that's actively targeting civilian infrastructure, and I'm talking ports and hotels.
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  These are not places that uh in the United Arab Emirates.
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  Uh the Emirates are not having weapons inside these airports that threaten Iran by any means.
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  Uh, but they are they are seeking to Iran is seeking to inflict uh loss of key critical infrastructure, such as oil infrastructure and diplomatic sites, and they're also targeting some military sites.
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  But uh these are not misaimed weapons that uh have a probability of air that just went astray and accidentally hit some airport.
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  Uh, that's is the intentional targeting, and I believe, like as I said, that's that's working against and it's gonna backfire strategically by pushing previously cautious Gulf states closer towards the United States um efforts to to end this.
• 34:39
  And it's not just the immediate direct, hey, you're you're targeting the this and it's hurting our infrastructure and targeting civilians.
• 34:48
  Yeah, that's that's not what any of these Gulf states want, but also when you choke off you know their main resource as far as the exporting of uh oil, that is that is definitely going to get senior senior leaders and princes uh attention inside you know the the Arabian Peninsula.
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  So that's uh also we're currently seeing on the European side, um, and this is again through Reuters, there is a significant amount of change going on on a day-by-day basis almost.
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  So um you've seen this with Italy and Spain and the Netherlands, um, even in France.
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  Um, some of these are posturing defensively.
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  Um but I believe that's that's likely going to change, especially if there's more casualties on any of these European sides, and as the Europeans who have assets in, you know, um commercial assets that become degraded, we're I believe we're going to see uh more sentiment that hey, you know, we're not just gonna hang on the sidelines forever.
• 36:02
  Um interesting how you know eight decades ago, uh, America was the one that was um being protested at by the Europeans as far as needing to get into the fight, just like we did in uh, but there was you know, we had this more passive approach prior to entering World War One and World War II, but uh now we have the exact opposite where Europe is is very cautious about uh entering any type of direct offensive operations in the Middle East, but uh they do have interest there, they have bases, troops, and energy assets that they truly do need, and that's why this really important focus there in the Straits of Hormuz is a choke point that has become the center of gravity, and it's going to take a significant amount of time to produce that same level of production uh that goes in these massive oil super tankers that you observe out there on the high seas, you know, trying to reroute that or put it through a pipeline.
• 37:13
  Do I believe that could be eventually done?
• 37:15
  I I do believe that, and I do believe that some people are looking at the probability in the long term of is Iran going to capitulate and cooperate and um allow um the trade and access through the Straits of Hormuz, or do we need to continue to expand our focus on building a greater pipeline that can you know work around whether it's to the west or to the south to get oil out of the uh the Gulf?
• 37:46
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• 38:52
  Welcome back, America.
• 38:53
  This is your host, Fred Alvin.
• 38:54
  We're picking back up with talking about what many people have discussed.
• 39:00
  And about 10 days ago, we saw the movement of US Marines on uh amphibious shipping, uh, moving from Northeast Asia.
• 39:13
  Uh there in basically uh Japan, and uh they've loaded up the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit with uh that expeditionary strike group and move them uh towards the central command area, and that is not a routine deployment uh for Marines stationed inside uh the Pacific area of operation.
• 39:37
  That is something generally tasked to east or west coast marine units that are embarked upon shipping.
• 39:44
  So this is a a non-standard deployment, and uh it shows America is willing to surge not just pure naval assets in the form of uh maritime and um aviation strike.
• 40:00
  Capabilities, um, but we're also willing to look at having marines um and there's connotations that we have not that I have heard of specified exactly how and where, and that's smart not to do, but sending amphibious task force uh that has uh very diverse capabilities in the Marines from the 31st Mew, they do retain this uh capability that once every marine expeditionary unit used to have, and that is a capability to come in not just with amphibious assault vehicles and heliborne capabilities, but to also come in through small boats and have uh reconnaissance elements be able to infiltrate in a multi-domain, whether it's uh from the sea, um, they can also come in uh from the air and uh from parachuting is very uh capable, but it's a force that's relatively light numerically, and uh being a retired marine, some people you know laugh and mock oh 2500 Marines can't really do that much.
• 41:08
  And carg island is does have significant numbers and significant assets there that you kind of wonder is sending uh less than 3,000 marines enough.
• 41:20
  And lo and behold, this last week we've received this report that another marine expeditionary uh strike group uh that has uh 2500 marines with the USS Boxer, and in those they have uh you know, F-35, which is the joint strike fighters, America's uh new fifth generation uh aircraft, uh, both of these platforms uh bring that to bear that uh you know now you're actually having uh another squadron of aviation assets reinforcing what these carrier-based uh aviation aviation uh assets that can be launched from off the catapults of these aircraft carriers.
• 42:06
  Well, each of these amphibious ships has uh uh rotary wing assets that can go in and conduct attacks and drop troops off as well as aviation assets that can go in and and really put a lot of pressure.
• 42:20
  So now we're having 5,000 marines, and that's actually two infantry battalions or just uh what we call a regimental minus.
• 42:31
  And we've done this before in Afghanistan when we first went in there, and they put a one star uh Marine general in charge of it that time in the beginning of Afghan war, that was General Mattis, was termed as Task Force 58, which went into the uh Kandahar L airfield and held that uh for other special operations forces to also go in and conduct operations against al Qaeda and the Taliban, and and it seems like we have this similar type of force being shaped up right now, and we also have a a one-star general that's for deployed into Bahrain, where that general has a headquarters, and um I'd have to do some more research and investigation to see if if that one star has been designated to be the commander of this these two marine expeditionary units or what is uh when they come together and into one organization, it's called a marine expedition brigade, but that is uh a definite naval asset that can be possibly utilized uh very near Iran um there on the carg island to to shape some in, and maybe that's just uh the carrot in the stick putting pressure on Iran during these negotiations that now we have all these assets and now we have uh 5,000 Marines.
• 43:54
  So we've up the ante and could we send more Marines or could we send uh the 81st airborne division or the 101st?
• 44:02
  I I don't believe that's something that I mean, I'm sure it's it's on the table inside the Pentagon as a potential course of action, but that changes a lot politically when you send an entire division and uh instead of a brigade.
• 44:18
  And one thing that we've seen recently with how both in Venezuela and here in uh this conflict in Iran, how we're using our naval assets.
• 44:30
  We're we're doing this limited scale strikes uh from the sea in many cases and from the air, but we're doing it without actively going in and taking ground and holding that ground.
• 44:41
  And um, to me, that is a campaign promise that no forever wars is that we're not getting decisively engaged.
• 44:49
  We want to uh shape certain things so that we do not have leaders in charge of countries that are oppressive, and we saw that for deck for I don't want to do public math, but for too long in Venezuela, and then what we saw, and some people say this was unprovoked, it was uh illegal war and unnecessary war, as Hakeem Jeffries says.
• 45:16
  Um, well, I guess that's depends on you know which side of the table you're on.
• 45:21
  I'm I mean, I do realize that China and Russia use that same rhetoric, and I'm surprised that we have politicians that side with them, and and I I always try to look at everything from three sides of the coin, and I can somewhat understand what somebody's saying is I don't want uh people to have to die unnecessarily.
• 45:41
  I believe I stood up against that and I I uh stepped in at the detriment of um you know a position I used to hold in the Marine Corps when a Marine commander did that.
• 45:52
  And I don't like it when anyone would say, hey, we need to take certain action that's unnecessary and it leads to the needless loss of life.
• 45:59
  But what we're talking about when we look at the full picture is we had tens of thousands of Iranians, and some people could say, so what?
• 46:08
  I mean, there's genocide going on in Somalia.
• 46:11
  There's there's places all across Africa where there's true legitimate genocide going on, and we do have um other atrocities going on inside the United States, which some people don't know about, some people don't who do know about don't care about.
• 46:27
  But we do have slavery, and that's right, slavery going on when we have this human trafficking, we have sex trafficking, we have forced labor going on in the United States, and and that is something that the media should uh fully not just report on but expose and amplify that we have this going on, but get back getting back to the point of why are we in Iran conducting these operations when I say in Iran kinetically launching missiles, uh firing uh dropping bombs on targets in our end, or not actually boots on the ground in Iran officially, not with any military assets that we've reported, but uh we're trying to force them to change.
• 47:12
  Uh, this is a I mean, when you're murdering, uh, and this is like industrial sized, you know mass scale murdering of tens of thousands, that's that is unacceptable.
• 47:26
  Um and the fact that we can't have media or anybody inspectors going in to see actually what's going on, that should be more alarming.
• 47:35
  That's I I understand.
• 47:37
  I fully get and I understand the logic why that certain people in Europe do not want to have other wars.
• 47:47
  I mean, they've been exhausted by wars that have gone on in the past, and I as I said myself, I am the last one that wants to sign up for a war that's that's unneeded.
• 48:00
  But when you're committing genocide, and then when you are developing, if you're going to do that against your own people, and then you're going to chase after weapons unrelenting that are capable of annihilating, and you're saying, and I've been on several shows, and I I've seen the implications of what happens in the information space in the information environment when you have people that are talking to me on some of these uh shows that I've been on and saying how I mean these are people from around the world and are making comments that they wish Iran would send a nuclear weapon and blow up America.
• 48:42
  And when you use rhetoric like that, that's um I mean that is just uh that's what we're battling against.
• 48:50
  And we need to know that that needs to go out.
• 48:52
  What I'm saying, I've I've confronted people on shows um both in America and abroad, that that is their point of view.
• 49:01
  And these are not uh lone wolves and these are educated PhD professors uh from multiple countries that have talked to me about this, and and that's unfortunate.
• 49:13
  And you know, I I understand their point, and they get very emotional about it, but uh you know, before we started large scale operations, they were talking about um they they felt that that was necessary, and they also have stated uh on some of these shows, and this is how powerful this information warfare is that they do believe that Russia and China should should get involved and uh turn this into a world war.
• 49:39
  And I'm hearing this from people with PhDs, you know, from Great Britain and from Belgium and other countries, and you just wonder like I thought you were pacifist and you opposed war, but now you're you're actually advocating for large scale conflict and uh uh
• 50:00
  We'll talk on another show about what that would look like.
• 50:03
  And I do believe, just to uh quickly finish it on this subject.
• 50:09
  But I do believe that we need to uh avoid having some kind of world war.
• 50:13
  I do believe that Russia and China are just seeing what is going on currently with this war in progress, and they're making a lot of evaluations as far as okay, um, you know, this could drive China further into Russia's domain.
• 50:31
  That would be very unfortunate because that's definitely not the case, that they're not two countries that are in love, they do cooperate, but uh yeah, that is uh could be an unintended outcome that we hope does not happen.
• 50:45
  But for China to convince conduct future uh large-scale offensive operations, they would need to have almost unlimited energy.
• 50:56
  And with what has gone on in Venezuela and Iran, that is causing them to recalculate things right now.
• 51:04
  I'm not in those discussions, but I you guarantee that is going on as far as their views on how to sustain this.
• 51:10
  Do they have enough energy?
• 51:12
  Uh, but let's get back to the topic regarding what our adversaries being Iran and as well as our peer adversaries, Russia and China are doing in the information space, and how that is taking a toll on American population trying to divide us, uh, because obviously our advert adversaries they gain an advantage when America is divided, and we go to the polls, and if Donald Trump has less power, and if he gets wrapped up into an election where, you know, it's a it's a mixed uh house and Senate, and they just focus as they always have on taking Donald Trump out and impeaching him and tying him up in lawfare and suing him as they've done in the past, and they will do again.
• 52:00
  In America, I truly do believe this.
• 52:03
  This is my opinion, but I do believe what Donald Trump has said in the past is actually a fact that they aren't just coming after Donald Trump, uh, they're coming after America, and they're coming after those that believe in traditional American values, and they're trying to dispose of that.
• 52:21
  So whether you're Robert De Niro or anyone that's living in New York and you're you're kind of upset with what you voted for and now what you're getting with Mayor Bandami and his taxes and and some of the you know restraints and constraints he's putting on you know some freedoms which you had, uh, what do you think is going to happen as you're seeing happen in America's largest city and how that's changed the way that people are thinking?
• 52:47
  But if uh the lawfare that is in you know, it's incontrovertible.
• 52:54
  It's it has happened as Donald Trump went into court multiple times in Georgia and in New York, uh, and I've had that happen to me.
• 53:03
  That can happen to anyone in the United States.
• 53:06
  Just think if you if it's happened to a billionaire who was running for office and it didn't happen to him before he was running for office.
• 53:12
  I mean, um, God help us if that's happened.
• 53:16
  So, my whole point in this is I do believe, this is my assumption, is that it's not just that they're Trump derangement syndrome that they're out after Donald Trump, they're after America and our values and what we are created for and those freedoms which we believe are given to us by our creator, as it's stated in our founding documents, and that is what many are seeking to remove, not just from Donald Trump.
• 53:45
  They don't just want to shut him up with um tying him up in court and taking his time and resources.
• 53:51
  They want to do it to all of us.
• 53:54
  And that is something that is un-American and something that we definitely shouldn't have.
• 53:58
  And we're upset because they're trying to take about two percent of our money and taxes and not give us representation.
• 54:05
  But uh, this is obviously it's grown into much more than that.
• 54:08
  We need to be very aware of that.
• 54:10
  But back to uh current tail of the tape, focusing on Iran.
• 54:15
  Sorry I diverged for too long, but this five-day process, which Donald Trump is um lightening up on some of these offensive operations, hoping that we can reach an agreement very soon over the next five days, which by the time you hear this, we should probably know something a little bit more.
• 54:33
  And hopefully that will be something that Washington will succeed in these negotiations.
• 54:39
  But uh, we really do want to have trade resume as normal uh through the Straits of Hormuz.
• 54:46
  And that's uh that is something that we need to wait and see and not rush to judgment or spread fear through the media or social media on you know what we think.
• 55:00
  Let's allow this to this is the strategic picture that's going on right now, and we're having a lot of uh senior people come in and and we'll know more.
• 55:10
  But if an agreement cannot be reached and there's still threats against uh ships transiting the Straits of Hormuz, uh we're going to see probably more um offensive operations for however long uh is necessary and however long that can be sustained uh before the 60-day period, you know, works out, but but we'll see.
• 55:34
  Obviously, America does, and I do want to reach some kind of a peace agreement.
• 55:40
  Um, but all this fake news as far as America being America losing this war and America not having an ammunition, there's there's certain rare earth minerals and materials that we are short on that can't we don't have an endless supply.
• 55:56
  I will say that, but are we what we say in the military winchester or out of ammunition?
• 56:01
  No, and we're nowhere even close, and that's going to be able to go on.
• 56:05
  We have resources to have large-scale wars for years, and this false narrative that you know we're out of ammunition.
• 56:14
  That's that's again it's showing this information warfare and this bias.
• 56:18
  So my uh final thing to you, send this to your friends and family that need to know it.
• 56:24
  Let's wait till this end of this five-day period and see what happens instead of rushing to a judgment and spreading fear and disinformation.
• 56:35
  We always need to check the facts and not lean in on some bias or be an agent of propaganda by saying something that we do not know as facts.
• 56:45
  So always back check me.
• 56:46
  And I appreciate you tuning in.
• 56:48
  We'll be back next week with another exciting episode of National Security Hour.
• 56:52
  So until then, God bless our troops.
• 56:55
  God bless you, and God bless the United States of America.