Bryan Callen

The problem is the Iranian strategy is we're in a midterm year.

Trump cannot sustain a military operation for a long time.

And after he is forced out either by the Democrats winning Congress or just

That's right.

Just attrition in general, like he can't sustain this economically.

Like you said, they're going to say we defeated Israel in the United States or we held our own.

Trump has no choice but to make sure this is done and done quickly.

But apparently now the reports, they're saying it's going to last until September or longer.

And now Trump, there's that viral video where he's saying we need NATO assistance to go in and keep the Strait of Hormuz open.

Yeah.

which is not a good sign.

But then he was like, well, we don't need the help.

So he went back and forth.

I think he's cooked.

I think the obvious reason for the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan was the invasion of Iran.

when you look at where we set up all these military bases along the border on the east and west of the uh... of iraq and afghanistan yeah we're surrounding iran will give israelis live on others israelis were telling the americans to invade iran not iraq right into it uh... oh three

But the issue is Iran is mountainous, defensible.

They've got surface-to-air missiles.

The U.S.

could not just go in, so they needed to establish effectively a land beachhead, essentially, along Iran's western border.