Dave Smith

It has nothing to do with whether me and you podcast about this, that Donald Trump can't militarily open the Strait of Hormuz.

Like he said, he what you know what I'm saying?

Like so that.

But.

in a different sense, the spirit of what Levin is saying there is kind of true.

Like, look, if we had what Mark Levin has, I mean, he doesn't have the will to personally do anything, but Mark Levin has the political will to treat this like it's World War II, to treat this like the most important thing that the United States of America has ever done in the history of this country is to overthrow this regime.

And

If like if that were the case, then I guess in theory we could do it.

You know, like if we were going to send in the 82nd Airborne, if we were going to do like a D-Day style invasion of Iran.

And I don't know exactly the logistics of how you get the troops over those mountains.

I guess we're helicoptering a lot of people in.

But yes, if if America was willing to actually pay the cost.

We could invade and topple and military militarily occupy Iran.

Now, we quite likely would end up in a situation like Afghanistan 20 years later.

Shit, man, there's nothing we can do here.

We got to go and we don't get to pick who controls the government, but we could pick for as long as we're there.

The thing about Iran is it would just cost a lot more than Iraq or Afghanistan.

So you'd probably, you know, you'd certainly be looking at casualties in the high tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, trillions of dollars this would cost, you know, like, so like, okay, we could do that.

But yes, what stops us is that no one in their right mind wants to.

Because why would they?