Tommy Vietor

inflame these populations, see if we can turn them against their governments for supporting the US and Israel and not Iran.

I've also seen reports that Iran has fired at Saudi oil infrastructure.

I'm not sure if those are true.

It doesn't sound like they've hit anything yet.

I think the big question I have is how long will these

iranians be able to retaliate and what will it look like fox news says iran fired about 300 missiles today they have 2 000 long-range missiles and 2 000 shorter range missiles total um i'm confident that the us and israel have taken out a bunch of those and they will methodically take out as many of the missiles and drones as they can but that could take a while and you're not guaranteed to get all of them we also don't really know what the iranian navy will be able to do

And maybe just the mere threat of going after shipping in the street of Hormuz will be enough to choke off oil flows.

We should watch the Houthis.

We should watch Hezbollah, all these proxy groups, including some that might be abroad or in American cities is something to worry about.

And then again, as we talked about last week, like Iran has some pretty advanced cyber capabilities.

We don't know if and how they might use those.

So a lot of this is just like, I think, wait and see for a while here.

Yeah, who's he taking orders from?

Yeah, it does seem like they've decided they have to up the cost.

I mean, anyone who was saying that in advance was right.

So, Ben, I know like nobody in the United States cares about hypocrisy or anymore or lies, but we should just point out that Trump explicitly ran against regime change wars and wars in the Middle East in particular.

In 2011, he had this to say about a war with Iran and Obama.

Let's watch.

In August of 2013, Trump tweeted, quote, the president must get congressional approval before attacking Syria.

Big mistake if he does not.