Saagar

So you could see very clearly that they know they're coming.

There's no element of surprise, really, about what this potential could look like.

And this is the highest, most risky one, which would easily require multiple days on the ground.

And that's if everything goes well.

And it never goes well.

Yeah, can we put the next element, guys, the New York Times tear sheet I asked for this morning, just to underscore how you already have many of these pieces that are currently in place.

U.S.

Special Operations Forces have been sent to the Middle East in the hundreds just in the last week or so that have now arrived.

Quote, several hundred U.S.

Special Operations Forces have arrived, joining thousands of Marines, Army paratroopers,

In a deployment meant to give President Trump additional options, the commandos, including Army Rangers and Navy SEALs, have not yet been assigned specific missions, but as specialized ground troops they could deploy to help safeguard the Strait, or they could be deployed to try and seize Karg Island, or, of course, used in a mission aimed at Iran's highly enriched uranium at the Isfahan nuclear site.

So these commandos join...

2,500 Marines, another 2,500 sailors who just arrived in the region as of a couple of days ago.

Altogether, there are now 50,000 American troops in the Middle East, roughly 10,000 more than normal.

You have all of these elite special operators on top of, remember the 82nd Airborne, which was on its way.

This just, I mean, you have to follow the forces of everything that's coming.

Following the actual military assets in Venezuela,

ultimately was the only thing that proved the direction of where things are going.

For all the talk of diplomacy and all that, it didn't matter.

In June of 2025, the people who were looking at all of the assets that were being put into place, even while Trump was allegedly negotiating, guess what?