Robert Pape
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first heard Jun 2026
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So we need to be very, very clear here that this is not like, well, we can just keep this up and it's just up to us to play the chess game.
Now, between now and the midterms, the core issue is going to be opening Hormuz, and now opening Hormuz and the Red Sea, which just in the last week has doubled the problem.
But I want to come back to the problem of opening Hormuz between now and the midterms, and I'd like your listeners to just hear one word, scale.
Scale.
Now, it's very important to understand that a Shaheed 136 drone, given its range, it has a drone launch zone of roughly 500 miles of coastline by 500 miles deep, not just a few kilometers deep.
That is a drone launch zone bigger than California.
And that problem of scale is not just two-by-two, a two-dimensional problem.
There are massive mountains in that 500-by-500-mile, the Zargos Mountains.
Think about mountains as a skyscraper where the drone, which is just a little bit bigger, heavier than a king-size mattress, could be on any crevice anywhere.
It could be deeply buried in the basement.
It could be on 12th.
you know, 412.
And the problem is, do you know how many Manhattans, Pierce, you can put in that zone launch area that I'm describing?
11,000 Manhattans.
That's the search problem we have, the scale problem.
And we got to solve this in three months.
And we're nowhere near being, we haven't won the first victory yet, let alone taken on this massive problem of scale.
Now, again, I am the top believer.
I believe in American primacy.
I believe in America should be the strongest country.
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