Mark Dubowitz

Thank you, Scott.

We actually took, took Gaddafi out.

And he didn't have a nuclear program, so we took him out in the Libya operation.

Now, Ukraine is another great example.

The Ukrainians, after the fall of the Soviet Union, you know this, they had the Soviet nuclear arsenal or good parts of it on their soil.

So we went to them and we said, all right, well, here's a deal for you.

Give up the nuclear arsenal off your territory, and we and the Russians and the French guarantee your territorial integrity.

and your sovereignty as a country.

So the Ukrainians said, fair deal to me, gave up all the nuclear weapons, and then Putin has now invaded Ukraine twice.

But Scott, my point is, and I think you'll agree with this.

My point is, if you're Khamenei and you've seen those two examples of Libya, you gave up.

Your nuclear program, Gaddafi gets taken down.

Your Ukraine, you gave up your nuclear weapons and the Russians invaded twice.

If you're Khamenei thinking to yourself, the only thing that matters more to me than my nuclear weapons program is my regime survival.

And in 12 days of war, the Israelis specifically, because we hit Fordow and Isfahan and Natanz.

We, the United States, hit those sites.

We, the United States, hit those sites.

I said we, the United States.

I'm not a neocon.

I'm not a neoconservative, so I don't know who he's talking about, but I'm not a neoconservative.