Brandon Weikert

Yeah.

Well, like I've been saying, there's no doubt we're degrading capabilities.

I've never denied that.

And I think that's what they're probably Rubio and the administration are probably running off of is because they are aware that this thing could go on for a lot longer than anybody is planning for or that we have the capabilities to sustain.

So I think they're probably smartly looking for a narrative frame to say, OK, we've destroyed X amount of targets.

We destroyed everything that we know about.

So that's we're done.

But that doesn't mean the Iranians are going to let this end.

It doesn't mean the Israelis are going to let this end.

What I think is going on here is a lot of hopium, as the kids say today.

There's a lot of hopium coming out of Rubio and Vance because the alternative is, oh my God, we are, forgive me, oh my gosh, we are stuck in a quagmire that we were not planning for.

And so this is how these things play out.

Again, compared to Vietnam, there was a lot of hopium back then.

Everybody was saying, just a few more thousand we need to take, you know, secure Da Nang and

And it never worked out according to plan because the enemy gets a vote.

The Iranian regime has survived.

As long as the operational tempo is where it is or more, there's no way they can catch up.

And then we have the added problem, Steve, of most of these weapons rely on rare earth minerals that are sourced from Chinese sources.

And the Chinese have already said they're putting on export controls for any system they deem to be used for military development.

So unfortunately, we are now hoist by our own globalist petard after 50 years of outsourcing to China.