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of the naval arm.

And here's the thing, because of their position, they don't need that much capacity.

You know, it doesn't take a lot to be able to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed, for example.

It doesn't take a lot to serve as a deterrence against the U.S.

doing any sort of ground invasion, etc., which would be sure to be a complete catastrophe.

And I think Trump knows this at this point, which is why he's effectively pinned, you know, the

You could have known from the beginning that just bombing alone was not going to be sufficient.

And this is what he continues to threaten of like, oh, we'll go back to bombing this and bombing that, etc.

If that was going to work, they would have already done the thing that they needed to do to make that work.

It's not going to work.

Can you inflict more damage and cause more pain and suffering and kill more civilians?

Yes, you can do that.

Is it going to work?

No.

You still haven't taken out their Air Force.

You still haven't taken out their Navy.

You are not going to be able to accomplish this either with a ground invasion or with this blockade.

And the Iranians claim that they used a lot of these decoys that they got from China.

And I do think that there was some of that.

So that as the US was hitting targets, some of what they thought they were destroying was actually just these Chinese-made decoys.