Saagar Enjeti

Officials asked about the finding, talked about the anonymity.

Since the U.S.

and Israel initiated the war, China has then sold...

weapons to Gulf allies of the U.S.

as they struggle to defend their military bases.

Beijing has assisted countries around the world struggling to meet their energy needs after the U.S.-Israeli attacks prompted Iran to close the Straits of Hormuz.

The war has drained the U.S.

massive stockpiles of munitions that would be critical

in any standoff with China over the fate of Taiwan.

The Iran conflict, which has resulted in the damage or destruction of US military hardware, has allowed Beijing to observe how the US fights wars and learn how to plan its own future operations.

And Beijing has now incorporated popular criticisms of the war into its public messaging, labeling the conflict illegal.

China has long sought to undermine the image of the US as a responsible steward of the US real space international order.

I don't think they had needed to seek anything.

Whatever for that.

It views the Iran conflict as emblematic of Washington's cavalier approach to military hostility.

So, look, none of this is groundbreaking.

If you watch the show, you've heard it every single day since the war began.

But still.

for a pentagon assessment like that to make its way up to the chairman to eventually be presented at least technically it's supposed to be presented in some form to the president of the united states someday in the future we'll have our own pentagon papers i'm sure they're going to cover this up but 10 years from now we can go and we can read i cannot wait to until there's an actual declassification or leak for any potential ellsberg out there please contact me about what those assessments in the middle of the war on can you imagine

10 days in, they're going to be like, we have not been able to accomplish our strategic objectives.