Dave Smith

And it didn't count any of the damage to any of our bases or targets like that.

Or just the damage of the lack of ships going through the Strait of Hormuz just for 10 days as a cause.

Yeah, yeah.

So this is probably in the tens of billions of dollars of damage.

You killed...

it's got to be over a thousand at this point.

The last, the last estimate I saw was over a thousand, probably going to come out to be higher than that.

Iranians dead.

We don't know how many people died in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, but presumably some people died there and we lost, you know, we got what the latest number is, whatever you said, seven dead, 150 wounded, something like that.

This isn't Venezuela.

In other words, he can't just spin this.

He can't just come home and spin this as like clean and done.

And that was that.

And so that the fact that,

that he can't come back and spin it that way, that creates an incentive structure for us to not get the best case scenario out of this and for them to actually do what they were floating out about to September or something like that, really just try to decimate the regime.

And of course, it seems like that is certainly the Israeli goal in this, that this isn't a regime change a la Iraq-Afghanistan.

This is a regime collapse a la Libya-Syria.

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