Saagar Enjeti
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Podcast Appearances
We've been hit at all of these bases.
We've run out of this number of munitions.
China is doing this, this, and this.
I'm almost talking myself out of my previous point about Vietnam.
It is so stunning to see it all happen.
And I know it sounds hyperbolic, but this really is the greatest disaster of my lifetime.
And Iraq, I never thought we could potentially โ
do something worse than that.
And to a lot of people who are watching, they're gonna say, that's ridiculous.
This has only been happening for 74 days, only 13 American side.
I hear you, but at the end of the day, that was a conflict which did not rewrite
the actual ability of the United States to project power.
You know, we did defeat Saddam.
We did occupy the country.
Yes, the insurgency and all that was bad and exposed a lot of problems about the military.
In this case, we're talking about the highest, most, you know, the high-tech weapons of all time, the full force of the United States Navy, the full force of the U.S.
Air Force, and 70% of Iranian ballistic missiles still survive.
I mean, nobody thought that was possible.
Me, I didn't.
Ask me on February 27th.