Saagar Enjeti

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.

I would say there's no way that that's possible.

possible, right?

And most people would not say.

I

I don't know.

I mean, I just, you know, when I, when I assess it on such a grand, like strategic level, if you were to think about that, like the meeting and these two superpowers, the defeat really that we've suffered, the inability to change the regime from the air, we knew that that was going to happen.

But at the very least we thought we would be able to militarily wipe them out.

Didn't happen.

It just didn't.

did not happen.

The drone threat, the asymmetry of these high-tech weapon systems, the lack of our defense industrial base, the inability of our sanctions to properly be able to cripple this country.