Dave Smith

And this was something we had said on the show many times that like, hey, there is a good chance that maybe they can get intelligence on where the Ayatollah is and they can take them out with with a bombing campaign.

Well, it turned out that that was true.

And.

impressively they did it the first day.

And so I have to admit that was, I did not think they were going to be able to do that quite so quickly, but Hey, they were able to pull it off.

And so, okay.

So essentially I'll, I'll say this.

I, so I was yesterday around yesterday afternoon, this is before it was confirmed that the Ayatollah had been killed.

I was talking about this.

We were on, we do like every month we do like a zoom conference.

call with like the supporting listeners.

If you want to sign up over at partoftheproblem.com in the top two tiers, we do like a monthly Zoom call with all of us.

Great group of people too.

And so what I was talking about at the time was, and this is almost like if you could do the timeline of it, right?

So

During the day yesterday, I was saying, well, look, the thing that's really concerning here is that now that Donald Trump has announced that this is a regime change operation, well, that puts him in a... I mean, Donald Trump has...

has put all of his balls out on the table like he's gone all in this is his legacy he's he his presidency hinges on how this military operation proceeds like and so you get into us once you announce

that it's a regime change if you bomb the crap out of them but the regime is still standing that's very hard to have um an off-ramp too because now you look like a failure and of course you know the israel lobby and netanyahu and all of them will pounce on you if you try to walk away and say hey you drew a red line it's regime change and so it's a failure if you don't do that

Then yesterday, it's well, first, the Israelis claim they had killed the Ayatollah.

It was a few hours before Iranian state media acknowledged that it was true.