Owen Gregorian

Maybe it's true that that's what they did.

But releasing this information to me seems like it's geared, it has to be for a purpose.

And the purpose to me would be to create paranoia and fear in the minds of the Iranian leadership.

Just like the pagers, the pagers I see is a little bit different because once you set them off,

you already know, okay, we can't do that again.

You know, they're not going to fall for that a second time.

And so you may as well tell them, yep, that was us.

But you know, for anything else like this, especially if it's ongoing, I just don't think it would make any sense to release it unless you were just intentionally trying to make people think you knew where they were and making them panic or making them move in some way that they wouldn't otherwise, or be limited in how they can communicate and that sort of thing.

So I think to me, this is a disruption operation.

So that's the historical reference.

But it was basically referring to Chiang Kai-shek.

And that was, I think, after World War II, that there was this threat to release or unleash Chiang Kai-shek to attack mainland China.

And I don't think that was accidental, frankly.

that that particular reference was used um in this whole context of geopolitics um because i think it's meant to strike fear in the hearts of china most likely and um china and i think owen had a story about that today on his um yeah schweitzer schweitzer was on uh um

Fox News with Laura Ingraham and Peter Schweitzer was talking about how this is a disaster for China.

And so he was pointing out that China has a terrible hand, that they gave all their most advanced air defense systems to Iran and they just got wiped out by the United States.

um that they invested something like 100 billion dollars in iran to industrialize their energy and everything and they're never going to get those loans back um and that they were getting 20 of their oil from iran and now and in venezuela i guess and so now they don't have access to the venezuelan oil and the iranian oil at least throughout at least without using us dollars to purchase it so now they're going to be forced to use us dollars to purchase their oil so he's just pointing out that across the board this is kind of um

a very bad situation for China and putting them in kind of a somewhat powerless position where they're just sacrificing left and right and they can't really do anything about it.

And we've certainly seen that they're not stepping in to try and defend Iran.

So it does seem like they're reluctant to get involved.