Saagar

Now, again, I want to caveat this.

This is in Israeli media, although they, of course, have very good sources.

It could seem that he wanted this to be like Midnight Hammer.

You go in, you kill the Ayatollah, you shock the IRGC, and you say, you guys make a deal just like Delcy Rodriguez, and I'll leave you alone.

He's even made some public comments about how they need to call him to decide who's going to be the next leader of the country.

He's made some comments also about how

He's made some comments before about he can keep this coming for a few days and then he can pull back or he can go, quote, do the full thing.

He's already floating multiple different types of scenarios.

However, what we have seen now is that Iran immediately responded by reaching for the maximum of their escalation ladder.

And I want to be clear with Iran.

their capabilities are not extraordinary.

They have claimed, oh, a new power that the world has never seen.

If they had it, they would probably be using it now at this point.

But, and this has always been the point, they've got the suicide drones, they've got ballistic missiles, they've got the IRGC.

These are people who went toe to toe with the United States and Iraq, and we lost hundreds of people to their roadside bombs.

They know exactly

how to do an insurgency, that is their bread and butter.

They can inflict maximum damage here.

And already for me personally, I don't know about all of you, my number has already been reached.

My number was zero, the amount of American lives that I thought was worth this type of operation.