Ben Swann

Definitely more.

Damn.

Definitely more.

That's awful.

Yeah.

And the numbers, they've really suppressed the numbers.

It's...

The problem is it's not a war that's winnable, right?

The only way you can win that war is you have to go in and obliterate an entire country full of people.

And that starts World War III because China and Russia and everybody else is not going to sit by and just watch you do that.

So you can't really get at it.

I think Trump believed that there was going to be a decapitation strike, which they did have.

The problem was that the Iranians figured out the decentralization thing, and they figured out that you need to not have everything centered in one guy like Saddam Hussein or Muammar Gaddafi or Assad.

And so they have been very successful in that.

And so it's much, much harder than we thought it was going to be.

Now, going back to the 5D chess, here's what I'm hoping he's doing.

I hope he turns around and says, okay, we need to get out of this.

We need to go away from this.

$12 trillion of U.S.

treasure has been spent in the last 30 years building up bases across the Middle East.