Tommy Vitor

And there was a lot of reporting, I think, back in December when Trump initially threatened to bomb Iran again, that the Israelis were saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't do it.

And that was interesting and surprising.

And now it's clear that that was only because we did not have the force posture in the region to defend Israel from an Iranian response.

Again, this person I was talking to yesterday said part of why you want the USS Gerald Ford there is because of the warships that travel with it that have tons of missile defense capabilities and can fire up interceptor missiles that take down ballistic missiles fired at Tel Aviv.

And now we are postured there.

And there's also –

F-15s and F-16s and Patriot missile batteries that have all been moved into the region that can do what the Biden administration did when there was that massive, you know, barrage fired at the Israelis, which is try to shoot down basically everything.

Yeah, look, there's not any kind of existential threat.

That's for sure, right?

Like the nuclear material was the biggest concern.

That's when we were always told, it's one week, we're two weeks away, we're four hours away from them having a nuclear weapon.

Like Trump, as Trump said-

They set back that program several years.

It's not completely and totally obliterated, but it certainly set back.

You're right.

That fundamentally hasn't changed since, what was it, June of last year.

They certainly, they've developed more ballistic missiles.

They probably rebuilt some of their defenses.

But my sense in talking to some experts is that they're still pretty weakened.

My gut on what's happening is that