John Bolton

But my guess is the bulk of that 2 billion to 200 billion is more ammunition, more munitions kind of across the board, which I think we were going to have to confront anyway.

Trump was going to propose a massive

or he has proposed a massive increase in the defense budget for the next fiscal year.

We're trying to make up really for 35 years of the belief that when the Soviet Union fell, we had reached the end of history, which sadly is not true.

Well, I think the two things are to open the Strait of Hormuz as quickly as possible.

And if I were to criticize the military, this would be the one area where I don't think they gave it priority early enough in the war.

And Iran has now shown they're fully capable of closing the Strait and really making transit through the Gulf itself dangerous.

That has to be fixed.

And second,

Longer term, even more important, get with the opposition in Iran, help them out, provide them resources, communications, money, weapons if they want it, to put more pressure on the Revolutionary Guard.

Because if our objective was regime change and we don't achieve it, we don't have the resolve to see it through, you're going to leave a wounded beast in Tehran.

It's going to rebuild its nuclear program, rebuild its terrorist infrastructure.

And in a few years, we're going to be right back where we were before this started.

I think the most likely near-term outcome of the fall of the Ayatollahs and the Revolutionary Guard will be a

a military government, a secular military government, not the Revolutionary Guard, but the conventional military, that will hopefully then allow the Iranian people to have some kind of

constitutional process to decide on what they want their new government to look like.

China, which was reported widely in the press in the past week or so, is being on the verge of signing a contract to sell Iran anti-ship missiles, which are obviously of great concern to us.

So this is just one more reason why acting now against Iran saves us from potentially even greater risk in the future.

I think the most likely near-term outcome of the fall of the Ayatollahs and the Revolutionary Guard will be a

a military government, a secular military government, not the Revolutionary Guard, but the conventional military, that will hopefully then allow the Iranian people to have some kind of