Greg Myrie

Only been to supreme leaders.

Exactly.

But that would be the normal process.

We're in the middle of a conflict now.

It may fall quickly to the security forces and the Revolutionary Guards.

That's what we're hearing.

In fact, Reuters had a report that the CIA did a recent assessment.

and wasn't really sure what was going to happen, but their best guess or their best thinking was the Revolutionary Guards or some elements of it would take over.

That's true because the U.S.

does have a small number of ground troops that are permanently at bases in the region, but they have not all clustered together.

They're not near the Iranian border.

And even if you add them all up, it's not nearly the size of a force you would need.

In fact, doing the math, some of the previous wars, it's maybe 10 or 20 percent of the ground troops the U.S.

had in Iraq previously, those wars.

Got it.

Ground war seems very, very unlikely, just isn't on the table given the resources that are there right now.

Sounds like regime change.

And that really just jumped out at me when I first listened to this, because this is the first time Trump really revealed what he wants.

He'd been very vague and fuzzy about that.

Also, it goes against what he's been saying for a decade, that he doesn't want to get the U.S.