Ryan Grim

Yeah, I mean, I think what we don't seem to understand is that we are at war with a real country.

We have spent the last 20 years fighting insurgents and insurgent groups and the Taliban around the world.

What we have now confronted in the case of Iran is a government that has spent nearly 50 years kind of preparing for a defensive war.

It spent the first 10 years of its existence in actual war against Iraq, armed heavily by the U.S.

and Israel, ironically.

But it spent the time after that believing that it was likely that at some point the U.S.

and Israel collectively were going to attack them and try to overthrow the regime.

Iran is one of the most kind of just geographically naturally fortified countries you could think of, just surrounded by mountains.

And so they've spent decades building bridges

these kind of missile cities deep under that mountainous terrain such that they are trying to make it so that even a tactical nuclear weapon wouldn't be able to hit them.

Now, there are a lot of videos that have been circulating of kind of explosions and then secondary explosions, particularly in Isfahan.

And it seems like they're hitting a lot of ammo storage and a lot of ammo dump.

That kind of ammo is...

what the Iranians would use to repel a 1980s-style, you know, Iraq invasion.

Like, you'd send in a bunch of tanks and troops, then you'd shoot the, you know, 155-millimeter shells at them.

Those, that's not the artillery that you're going to be firing at Israel or at Kuwait or the, you know, any of the Gulf states.

Those are the ballistic missiles which are buried much deeper in the mountains and which they've been developing

methods of launching that that would be able to continue in a lack of air superiority uh this is and they've been planning it for a very very long time so they had they had the time they had they had the resources they despite the sanctions they own an oil producing country um and they had the motivation and the capacity to do it they did it and now we're shocked that you know we're not just bumping them off like it's al-shabaab or something

We also got Trump's tweet here of the video he decided to tweet out.

He says the biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again, much more to follow.