Kristi Noem

They're probably also doing it surreptitiously, as the Russians have been doing surreptitiously.

So that's important.

But also, we know that China's been supplying the components for Iran's weapons.

Iran makes virtually no semiconductors.

They get all of those chips for their drones and other weapons from China.

China supplies the components for ballistic missile fuel.

And we know that China has the components for North Korea's Hwasong-15.

The reason why that's important, Vince, is that the Hwasong-15 is an intercontinental ballistic missile.

It has a range of 12,000 kilometers fired from Iranian soil.

It can hit any part of the United States.

Now, we don't know if the Iranians have been able to put those components together, but they have it all there.

which means that this has become an imminent war.

People say, oh, you know, why did we need to strike Iran now?

Well, we needed to strike Iran now because they have highly enriched uranium, very close to weapons grade, and they have a ballistic missile that can deliver it to your favorite city in the United States.

The assessment so far, and this will not be definitive until long after this war is over, but so far we know that it hasn't worked because right now America and Israel have control of the skies.

You know, go back to January 3rd.

Venezuela had an export version of China's radars and integrated command system, and they somehow didn't see more than 150 American aircraft in or near Venezuelan airspace.

Well, the story is really true for Iran as well.

I sort of assumed that in the interim, after Venezuela and before Saturday's attack,

that china supplied more advanced versions of its radars um but obviously that didn't help because american stealth and american tactics were able to neutralize iran's air defenses do you think china is all in on iran right now or does china believe that iran is going to lose this conflict so they're kind of giving them i i don't know i don't know how else to put this a half-ass effort