Phil Stewart

The most recent reporting that we have, it talks about 82nd Airborne being deployed.

But late last week, we were talking about sending Marines and sailors to the Middle East as reinforcements.

So what you're seeing is kind of a steady buildup beyond the buildup that was already there that is giving President Trump more options for the days and weeks ahead.

Well, I mean, I think there's different ways to take that argument and analyze it.

One is that the U.S.

military undoubtedly has struck thousands of Iranian targets, has definitely degraded its missile and drone capabilities and decimated its Navy.

There's no doubt about that.

But the Iranians still have tremendous capability that they can still launch against their neighbors and against the US forces in the region.

There was this aha moment I had at a press conference last week where Defense Secretary Hegseth was talking about the tunnels that Iran had spent lots of time and money building these really fortified tunnels where they put away a lot of their equipment for use for later.

And he drew a comparison to the war against Hamas, Israel's war against Hamas.

And I think we all remember that that wasn't a one week or two week or three week or three month or whatever war.

It was a long campaign because of that.

And so the Iranians have a lot of capability they can bring out.

And a lot of it's hard to get places.

You know, it's not clear to us.

There's been some reporting that it might be the speaker of the parliament, but there's no confirmation of that.

And the Iranians, although he's spoken about these talks and there's breaking news right now about the U.S.

proposing a 15-point plan to end the war, the U.S.

requests are the kind of non-starters, some of them, that really had the negotiations at an impasse before.

So it would be