Nika Kovacs

You don't even know like what even in Afghanistan or any of these other.

Actually, I knew what the Bush administration said.

It was it was trying to set up a new government in Iraq.

You know, in Afghanistan, we were trying to keep the Taliban out of power.

Like, I don't know what we're doing in Iran.

And I don't even know if the president of the United States knows what we're doing in Iran.

And that's what makes it impossible to even like try to understand it from their perspective.

I counseled as loud as possible against doing this in the first place.

I don't share the optimism of the administration that there's going to be a peaceful stop to this.

And I don't think people are really prepared for that.

I was trying to figure out how to not say I agree with Eric Prince, but he's got a point.

And look, he tends to like to operate in places where it's kind of chaos and there's not like a military force like the Iranians.

You summed up well these potential operations.

I just make a few points to build on it.

In any event where the American military is put onto the ground in Iran, they will face fierce resistance, either from drones and missiles or from some kind of direct combat.

The thing that concerns me.

is that Trump might want to continually be looking for some win, some event that allows him to say, we won, we have Karg Island, or we won, we got the stuff out of Isfahan, where the nuclear material is in the center of Iran.

And it is entirely in Iran's interest to deny Trump the illusion or the narrative that he won, right?

And so therefore, they're not just going to say, oh, you got us, you won Karg Island, we surrender.

No, they're going to try to kill as many Americans as they can in Karg Island, to take out warships, to bomb our facilities across the region.