Brian Kennedy

But we also need defensive systems.

As I've argued, even though I'm a supporter of President Trump and a supporter of his actions here, I've made the argument that if we had a national missile defense that could protect the United States, then we wouldn't be over there right now doing this.

And the president has a Golden Dome initiative that he is pursuing, but we're not pursuing it quickly enough.

Back to your question of the military-industrial complex.

If we had that defensive system in place, this whole question of Iranian nuclear weapons would have been a moot point, and we wouldn't have been over there.

And so let's consider that for a moment.

We don't want to go to war all over the world, but the mere fact that we don't have a national missile defense

to protect us from Iranian, Chinese, Russian, or other potential rogue actors who have nuclear weapons that they may have gotten from the communist Chinese, should be something we're deeply concerned about.

Boots on the ground, I don't think that's a viable option.

We don't have enough boots, and there's a lot of ground to cover.

So I don't see us going in there with boots on the ground.

I don't think that's been the president's plan.

Of course, there are a number of contingencies here, but let's take the president at his word that he wants to reduce their capacity to produce nuclear weapons and the ballistic missiles that could potentially harm both the United States

And whether people want to hear this or not, Israel, by the way, I have a new piece out in the Federalist where I've articulated President Trump's views about this over the last 25 years, including, you know, in 2024 when he ran for president.

even though he doesn't believe in no new wars he does have a particular view about iran that he takes very seriously and he has said it 20 years ago in in one of his books that i i describe he said iran cannot have nuclear weapons period he also said that israel

And again, I know much of the audience may not be supportive of Israel, but President Trump said of Israel in 2020, I guess it was 2020 exactly.

He said they're a unsinkable aircraft carrier for American interests, meaning it wasn't about being friends with Israel.

It wasn't about, you know, he mentions nothing about our Judeo-Christian heritage, whatever we mean by that.

he means strictly in strategic terms.

Israel was useful for the United States.