Dr. Bradley Thayer
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and other actors can do what they want.
But if there is going to be escalation, the nuclear is certainly a logical driver of escalation.
As Jim, again, and Eric were discussing, the straight... Hang on.
Well, first, don't box President Trump in.
Right.
Trump will take his path and will act based on U.S.
national security interests.
And so.
Rubio's points that he made on Friday, March 27th, I think are spot on.
And as Jim Fennell stressed, we're making progress in each of those areas.
That's not to say, as Brandon indicated, and he's right, there will be latent drone and missile capability.
And Iran will be able to execute some complex operations, missile attack operations, as the
intermediate-range ballistic missile attack against Diego Garcia illustrated.
So that danger is going to be with us from now on, right?
That's part of the consequences of this war.
I would underscore what Brandon said about the magazine, right?
Our arsenal is being drained.
RTX said, according to press reports, they made about 600 Patriot interceptors last year.
And we're burning that up very quickly, as well as joint air-to-surface strike missiles, the JASM missiles and other capabilities that we're using up.
The loss of the E-3 is very significant.