Emily Maitlis
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I've destroyed their radar stations.
I've destroyed their anti-aircraft batteries.
The fact of the matter is that, you know, Iran had its missiles in bunkers squirreled away, its launchers in missiles squirreled away.
It has still got command and control.
Iran hasn't got a navy, but it doesn't need much of a navy.
to keep the Strait of Hormuz blocked.
It doesn't need much of an air force to be able to fire ballistic missiles at Israel.
And I think that there's something else there as well, that Donald Trump, you know, he can't compute that he hasn't won this war.
And of course, yeah, it's true that compared to Vietnam or Iraq or Afghanistan, you haven't seen loads of body bags,
being flown back to America of young American servicemen and women killed on the front line.
But America is nevertheless feeling it economically.
And the other part of Donald Trump's promise to the United States of America was I was going to bring down prices.
I was going to make this country affordable after Joe Biden.
This war has sent prices spiralling.
We spoke a moment ago about Donald Trump saying, I call the shots.