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Ryan Bridge: The war in Iran isn't going anywhere · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: I told you when this whole thing kicked off that
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  Speaker 1: it wouldn't end tomorrow, and it hasn't. This is the
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  Speaker 1: war between the U.S. and Iran. It is still going on.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest problem was always going to be the Strait
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  Speaker 1: of Hormuz, and the Strait of Hormuz is not open.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, there were tankers going through the other day
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  Speaker 1: in a shoulder that the U.S. said should be safe,
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  Speaker 1: and guess what? They weren't. Now, over the weekend, we've
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  Speaker 1: had Leon Pineda, this is the former U.S. Defense Secretary,
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  Speaker 1: He was also CIA director under Obama. He said, yeah, look,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those things. It's at risk now becoming
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  Speaker 1: another forever war in the Middle East, which is exactly
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  Speaker 1: what everybody doesn't want. We've had these before. We've had
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  Speaker 1: many before. Iraq, Afghanistan, you name it. He says the
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  Speaker 1: likelihood is this war is going to continue for another
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  Speaker 1: six months without being resolved. And at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: you've got chaos at the Pentagon. You've got Hegseth going
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  Speaker 1: after and firing people left, right and centre, or senior
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  Speaker 1: military commanders leaving their posts. And just imagine if you
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  Speaker 1: were one of the frontline soldiers here, if you were
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  Speaker 1: on some Navy frigate in the middle of the Gulf,
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  Speaker 1: although they're having a wee holiday in Thailand at the moment,
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  Speaker 1: of course, but if you were on a Navy frigate
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the Gulf and you were reading
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  Speaker 1: updates on your phone or you're reading updates from command going, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's gone now. Oh, who's in charge here? And what
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  Speaker 1: exactly are we doing? Quite disconcerting. And I think Leon
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  Speaker 1: Pinesa makes that point very well. This war is not
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  Speaker 1: going to end in a hurry, certainly not in the
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  Speaker 1: next six months.