Peter Schiff

in order to try to effectuate some sort of regime change or just regime collapse, which the Israelis would be perfectly happy with because then that state is a mess.

Yeah, and they no longer have any sort of challenge for regional hegemony.

They would be perfectly happy with that.

So there have been a variety of techniques that have been tried, and this may be the latest effort.

Now, Trump, it appears, is very reluctant to actually get in in the, you know, Iraq war sense and boots on the ground, etc.

And in Venezuela, so far, he's been able to pull that off of just doing this decapitation strike and then having Delce Rodriguez in place and having her play ball with him and, you know, do whatever he wanted her to do with the oil.

Again, Maduro was willing to do those things, but put that aside.

Iran is more it's it's more difficult.

I mean, even just from the military perspective, Caracas is right on the is on the water.

Tehran is not right.

And it's yeah, it's closer by.

And Tehran is not right on any sort of body of water.

You have to overfly the country in order to get to Tehran.

So even just from a military perspective, it is more complex.

You are always risking.

that there is some sort of conflagration, that American service members died.

There was a close call actually in Venezuela in that operation where a helicopter was nearly disabled or was disabled and there had to be a rescue.

Those sorts of things create so much risk.

Military operations are not always going to go perfectly 100% of the time.

Iran is not Venezuela, right?