Steve Yates
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1,090 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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I mean, people still think of this as are we inching towards Iraq 2.0 and we're just nowhere in the same arena.
of that uh but what will i think the key question is what will be required after the perception of major military operations are over now in my view the the reality of major military operations are already over uh we we are in what i consider to be somewhat of a maintenance position at this point we do not have boots on the ground in iran and we're unlikely to have boots on the ground in iran in my estimation we have enough force to respond
At any time or circumstance of our choosing.
And I think we're still going to have force in theater to be able to respond at a time and manner of our choosing, whether it is to wax the nuclear sites.
If we sense that there's a sort of a restart of activity.
If the Iranians were to launch, then we get the launchers, but we also hit some oil because we're going to hit them in the pocketbook just at the same time as we hit them with where the capability is coming from.
But that's more of a maintenance mission.
Yeah, well, I hear the same sort of murmurings.
Of course, I don't have the technical capability from Yates headquarters in the greater Tampa area here to sort of sniff out what's true or false over there on this stuff.
And I don't ever want to be close enough to a major nuclear site to do the testing myself.
You might get a third arm or something like things like that.
But I do think that basically we look at what we did.
You have a choice.
You can go the old route of trying to negotiate and have the IAEA and snap inspections.
And if you have a permissive environment, you can have this monitoring regime that gives you some degree of confidence that the genie's in the bottle.
But if you don't feel like you have that at hand and I don't under the current leadership in Iran, we'll never have that.
And so the alternative is then we flew bombers from the middle of continental United States and devastated that site.
And we're back in the United States before anyone knew what had happened before we admitted we did anything.
And so having that capability means we're going to either have a change in that leadership where it's more permissive and maybe international bodies can do that.
It's above zero, but not likely in my view.
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