Ryan Grim

You fire one ballistic missile, we might send 10 or 12 interceptors at it.

Millions and millions of dollars worth of interceptors at one missile.

And they're sending their oldest ballistic missiles and their cheapest and the ones that have the closest expiration date first, obviously.

So the ones that they have remaining are going to be the ones that were produced more recently and be higher tech.

So if the Israelis are down to double digits and the U.S.

has fired off a significant portion of what it has, then what is another round of fighting going to look like?

It's like, guys.

Yeah, I mean, anybody there thinking this through?

Which means that in 10 years, we'll be ready for another one of these.

I think he wants to do it this weekend.

Yeah, I mean, this is why I think people have been saying Trump has no military options.

Like he can threaten to, you know, wipe out Iranian infrastructure.

The other aspect of this beyond just the shortages that we're facing is that in a lot of these conversations, whether it's from like Lindsey Graham or from the push from Benjamin Netanyahu to get us back into a war right now, it's like,

they never include in that Iran has escalatory options themselves that they could blow up a bunch of infrastructure in, you know, the UAE or the rest of the Gulf countries.

You know, they've obviously had reference to the internet cables, the undersea internet cables.

You know, they could, if it really becomes existential, blow up desalination plants, you know, lots of different things that they could target.

They could close down the Red Sea if they wanted to work with the Houthis on that.

So, like, there is no real viable military option for Trump that's on the table here.

Well, and to the point that Crystal was just making, there's a massive increase being asked for at the Pentagon right now.

We're a year away from Doge, which you'll be shocked to remember, would not, as Bannon said, cross the river and go over to the Pentagon.