Shawn Ryan

They don't need our help to do that.

They don't need our help gathering very much intelligence.

But for big military lifts that involve, you know, deploying strike packages several thousand miles, they need our help for that.

And troops.

And troops.

And also... They want us to die for them.

In order for them to commit that air power to go strike Iran, they're leaving some of their airspace vulnerable.

So they need us to back them up in that regard as well.

So without us providing the defense and the offensive capability, Israel can't do it.

Now, Iran, in the lead-up to the 12-day war...

During the 12-Day War and after Midnight Hammer, they observed the escalatory ladder very, very carefully.

They didn't have their proxies attack us, and they also didn't attack us until Midnight Hammer.

So they let the Israelis strike them throughout the entire 12-Day War, and they didn't target any of our bases in the region.

And then after Midnight Hammer, they shot back an equal amount of missiles at the empty sector of one of the bases in Qatar.

as we dropped bombs inside of Iran.

So I think this next iteration, they said, we're not going to do the escalatory ladder.

If you guys come after us this time, because they knew that the Israelis were going for regime change.

They were going to try to take out the Supreme Leader.

And that's what led them to say, if you guys are going to do this, then we are going to retaliate with the full force because they didn't want to get pushed around again.

It wasn't even intelligence.