Jeffrey Goldberg

Keep that in mind.

I hear that from Cooper's perspective, he's the one running the war.

You know, there are 50, 60, 65 percent through the target population.

package, right?

They've done a remarkable job of neutralizing the air defenses.

Obviously, they've done a great job so far of neutralizing the Navy.

It gets harder because the Navy gets smaller, and then it becomes little tiny boats harassing oil tankers and so on.

But as a plan to defang Iran, it's

But what the thing you can't do from the air, obviously, and the thing that you can't do on the ground either, is instigate the rising that I think all...

sober-minded people would like to see in iran like to see the good people of iran take their country back they're the majority um you can't do that because what you can't do what centcom can't do is disarm the local besiege besiege and and rev guard formations you know they the eight guys with guns on motorcycles who will shoot anybody who looks like a protester yeah

They killed anywhere between 7000 and 30000 protesters just this last period.

Right.

And so the Israelis are doing some of that.

What is happening, we see, is that Iranians, average Iranians are through signal or however, whatever, whatever app they're using, telling the Israelis where these besieged.

checkpoints are and the israelis will have these loitering drones that are hovering above tehran and other cities they come in and they blow up that checkpoint that's from the perspective of the iranian democratic underground that's great but that's not going to achieve all the things that you want to achieve the point also haven't kept the straight open

Which can be done, obviously, but at much greater... Of course, anything can be done.

Yeah, sure.

You know, the United States military is the most powerful and technically advanced military in the history of the planet.

So that can be done.

It's just about, is that what you were planning for?