Annie Jacobsen

In my opinion, no.

In my opinion, what it does to Putin is it makes him say, wow, this president...

And to some – to an authoritarian person like Putin, that's a match for him, not someone for him to walk on.

And I think that –

I'm not saying that's a great way for world diplomacy whatsoever.

It's not diplomacy.

It's just strong-arming one another.

But I do not feel at all that this situation makes us closer to a nuclear threat whatsoever.

To your point, what this is a boon for is the defense contractor world, is the military-industrial complex because, for example, part of why Iran is so weak is because they've used up so many ballistic missiles in their conflict with Israel.

Yes.

Although you do see in any kind of conflict like this, you always see new weapons on the battle.

And that's what happened now in America actually.

has been copying the Shaheed drones, these cheap, we call them the Lucas, these cheap systems that can just go in and, you know, cause havoc without precision.

And we deployed them.

So I think this was a long time.

I thought I'd interrupt you, Stephen.

Well, there's also an interesting move that the United States did.

Well, we didn't kill the supreme leader.

What we did do was send our B-2s to take out underground missile systems, which Iran has.

No, they're underground.