Shawn Ryan

There's going to be more blood.

And then basically the only...

recipe for getting out of this is gonna be more and more continued war.

Problem is, though, you've got the Straits of Hormuz as a choke point for major world energy.

So this is going to become, it already has become, a major geostrategic issue and a major issue on the world economy.

If we wanted to clean the deck on Iranian proxies that were outside of Iran or even inside of Iran, fine, do it.

Do limited strikes, that's fine.

The Israelis are very competent.

I mean, they've killed many Hamas, they've killed at least one Hamas leader inside of Tehran.

They've killed how many members of Hezbollah, decapitated them with the pagers.

Operations like that are pragmatic.

They make sense.

They're limited in their scope.

and they target exactly where we need to target.

Again, back to the policy of the first Trump administration, President Trump would use force where required, but then, like no other president I've seen, he would apply other leverage that only America has in terms of economic power and in terms of diplomacy.

So after he kills Soleimani Mohandas,

He goes and he slaps maximum pressure sanctions on Iran that makes the economic life in Iran very, very challenging.

That results in waves and waves of protests that we were seeing.

Back in January, just not that long ago, we saw Iranians out on the streets protesting against the current regime because of the cost of living.

Now, the Iranian regime knows that their own people could overthrow them if they're not happy, especially, you know, with with just how expensive it is and challenging it is to live.