Brandon Weikert

That is an industrial bottleneck that has to be overcome.

And by the way, who controls the rare earth minerals that go into the creation of these systems?

That's the People's Republic of China.

And they are absolutely not going to let their chokehold on that go away now.

If they meet with Trump in Beijing, they're going to tell him, you stop the war or we're cutting you off from the rare earths.

China is the beneficiary of all of this right now, contrary to what some of the reporting earlier was saying.

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Well, in the last 24 hours, Iran has managed to survive.

They have avoided having a kill shot.

Obviously, we got the Ayatollah.

But as I reported when I was writing at the National Interest a year ago, the Ayatollah was not an operational control guy.

After the 12-day war, the control of the regime shifted directly to the IRGC and military leadership.

The Ayatollah was essentially a figurehead.

So the United States and Israel has not yet gotten a kill shot in on the regime yet.

The Iranians have also failed to get— Hang on, hang on, hang on one second.