Dr. Bradley Thayer

War is brutality applied.

And so we're trying to affect the regime's behavior.

And allowing the regime to make appeals to Persian nationalism, of course, is not ideal from our perspective in our effort to wage a limited aims campaign.

We're not seeking to go to Tehran.

What we're seeking is to achieve the objectives as President Trump has identified them, as Marco Rubio identified them yesterday.

Yeah, Steve, thanks.

So in order to understand the ideological upheaval that Americans face today, right, why do we have open borders?

Why are we talking about Sharia in Texas?

Why do we have to fight that?

We need to understand that we've been locked in a long war, 100 years war, against communism since it was birthed in the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.

That takes an external form.

We fought a Cold War with the Soviets and we're fighting one with communist China today.

But we're also fighting domestically.

We're fighting because the communists spread their revolution targeting the U.S.

explicitly since 1917.

They've made great progress really at undermining our institutions, undermining American identity.

And as a consequence of that, we have to respond.

We're at a point now where the country is going to be lost if Americans don't recognize the value of their identity, of the American identity, the American spirit, our political ideology, and the value of Western civilization.

The stronger American identity is, the weaker communism is, right?

And the reverse.