Shawn Ryan

It's a very clever, pretty sophisticated plan, but they got it done through repetition.

If they look at the totality of everything I've ever said, I am neither an isolationist nor am I a hawk.

On Iran, if their proxies attack us, we should hammer them.

I will debate anybody on the utility of killing Qasem Soleimani.

President Trump was justified and he was correct and he was bold for killing Qasem Soleimani and his deputy, Aboumani Mohandas.

He was really bold in the fact that he took them off the battlefield, but then he didn't get suckered into what we're in right now, which is a regime change war in a massive country like Iran.

So I've always been against us doing a prolonged kinetic strikes inside of Iran.

When Iran shot ballistic missiles at our troops, I thought we would have been justified to basically counter battery and take out some of those ballistics.

Now, right after the Iranians shot the ballistic missiles in retaliation for Soleimani at our troops at al-Assad, they accidentally shot down that Ukrainian airliner, and that basically ended the conflict.

right there, but I have never been in favor of a regime change war inside of Iran.

If their proxies attack us, if they attack us, we hammer them back.

But again, going back to the Iranian escalatory ladder, if you look at how Iran has behaved since President Trump basically killed Soleimani and then since he came back into office,

They were very, very deliberate about what they were and what they were not going to do.

They didn't hit us until we hit them.

And then again, just for the record, I'm not a fan of the Iranians.

I'm not a fan of the Quds Force.

I fought them.

You fought them.

They've killed friends of ours.

But at some point, we do have to find a way that we can de-escalate these situations and move on.