Mike Waltz

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278 appearances 19 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 15 Jul

Mike Waltz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Engagement, any type of infrastructure that is being commingled, that is being used to move military hardware, is absolutely a legitimate target, as are power plants, the grid, and other things that are being used to power Iran's war economy.
Which, oh, by the way, the IRGC controls an estimated 40 to 50% of.
So it's
The president will move up an escalated an escalation ladder responsibly as our amazing military will follow those orders with him as a commander in chief until Iran comes to the table and and really lives up to a responsible deal that the vice president has put on the table.
It cannot and will not ever have a nuclear weapon.
Everything, absolutely everything's on the table and the president's made it very clear.
He is prepared to escalate, to deescalate this conflict as he should be.
But I just wanna get ahead of this other ridiculous and frankly irresponsible narrative that
This would somehow constitute a, quote, war crime that we've heard from Democratic politicians, the media and others in the international community.
That is wrong.
It's irresponsible.
And we have a long history of taking down bridges, power plants and other infrastructure that is powering Iran's military.
And they have a long history of conflating civilian and military assets.
Yeah, that's oil, Kristen, that's oil that was going to market.
And now, rather than just going to China, it can go to some of our other allies and partners, number one.
But number two, what has Russia lost?
Russia has lost one of its military partners in terms of its biggest drone provider, Iran, whose military industrial complex has been absolutely devastated.
At the end of the day, the Iranians are not going to decide economic winners and losers, but this is really a favor to the world in many ways because what we're doing in ensuring that it stays open is ensuring that the economies of Asia and Europe and elsewhere are...
maintain their supplies and are active.
And by the way, there's a humanitarian component here.
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