Emily Maitlis
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Appearances Over Time
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And an hour after that, Israel say, you know what?
We're retaliating and firing their own missiles and bombers flying over Iran to retaliate.
I honestly think in years to come, people will look at Epic Fury, Operation Epic Fury, as Donald Trump was so proud to call it on the 28th of February.
We'll look at this as one of the greatest strategic failures in modern warfare, where you say what we're going to do is in short order, we're going to overturn the regime.
We are going to stop their ballistic missile program.
We are going to destroy their military and we are going to retake their nuclear material.
And it's all going to happen very quickly.
And here we are over 100 days on from that.
The sun has taken over from Ayatollah Khamenei.
you have got the Republican Guard still able, with command and control, to fire missiles with precision into Israel and into Gulf states.
There has been no progress made on the nuclear material and the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before 28 February, is still firmly shut, driving up prices.
Israel and the United States kidded themselves that they could achieve this militarily and it would all be done so quickly.
And nothing like that has happened.
Israel and the US have fired endless missiles, have committed millions and billions of dollars to this campaign, and they haven't succeeded.
And let's consider the other autocrat in the White House.
And, you know, you just have to replay again.