Peter Zeihan

Exactly.

And that sort of launcher system is not something that you can just whip up in an afternoon.

That requires work.

A lot of the components have to be imported beforehand.

and so the united states has for solid reasons israel for solid reasons has gone after the missiles first because per unit they can cause a lot more damage they're a lot more difficult to intercept because you basically get them on their terminal approach and that's it and that's what the pac-3s are for shaheads their launch system is a little rail that you can bolt onto the back of a pickup and it takes one welder about four hours to put one of those together

And they have a lot more Shaheds than they have missiles.

So on the missile side of the equation, we're actually in reasonably good shape.

The Iranians stored a lot of these things underground in places that we knew, so we just collapsed the entrance and, you know, don't have to worry about those again.

But you can make a Shahed in a garage.

It's got components that are styrofoam and plywood.

They're really easy to put together.

They fly in a straight line.

They're fairly easy to intercept with any number of weapon systems.

But if you keep firing them a few hundred a day, which is exactly what has continued to happen, eventually enough are going to get through to make a difference because we will run out of interceptors.

We'll be right back after a quick break.

God, I would love to say that it was that simple.

We've crossed the line now.

Iran has to change their strategic policy based on the concept that the United States can come for them at any time.

That means more, at a minimum, means a nuclear program that has a deliverable weapon.

we've entered a much riskier part or stage of this.