Joe Kent

They grew up fighting us in Iraq.

They grew up fighting with Lebanese Hezbollah against the Israelis.

And then most of them fought heavily against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

These are battle-hardened guys.

And they've been screaming, essentially, at the clergy and a lot of the political leadership, like the guy who the Israelis just killed, Laron Johnny, and some of the other ones, Arachi, that, hey, you're going too soft on the Americans.

Like, let's go.

Let's throw down.

Let's use our proxies.

Let's get deeper.

deeper and deeper engaged in this.

And so I think a major problem and a major quagmire we could have is that if we continue this cycle of just killing off their leaders, the whole country either fragments into absolute chaos, which is going to have the Libya effect on steroids, or we're going to just continue to get more and more hardline folks.

And that's going to keep, like, the effect that's going to have on the Straits of Hormuz, that's going to impact global energy way more than it already even has.

in terms of not just fuel production, not just natural gas, but also what's going to happen to fertilizers in terms of being able to grow crops.

So these are very, very big issues that, again, I don't think we did our homework on in terms of what's our strategic objective.

Yeah.

I want to turn a little bit to some comments you made with Tucker Carlson.

You made some very ominous comments about the Butler assassination attempt and about Charlie Kirk's assassination.

And I want to be super clear.

Like, do you think that there was foreign involvement in the Charlie Kirk assassination?

The only thing that I'll say for certain is that we did not get an opportunity to fully investigate the potential for foreign links.