Tommy Vitor

You have people like Lindsey Graham who are in Trump's ear all the time and saying to him, Mr. President, if you take out Maduro, if you take out those communists down in Cuba, and you take out the Iranian regime, you are the greatest president in history.

You are historic.

You are this.

You are that.

And all he sees is kind of the easy, good outcome, right?

Because this guy has gotten super lucky in the Venezuela operation.

He got really lucky after the Qasem Soleimani assassination back in 2020.

that no service members were killed in those operations, and it didn't become this escalatory major war.

And so he thinks the cost of war is really low, and it's easy.

Largely because they know that they would be, the response would be destroyed.

for the United States government.

I think the only way, yeah.

And like every sort of response they had, look, they're bad actors.

They, they fund terrorism.

They do all kinds of shitty stuff.

None of us like that, but you know, their responses to getting bombed constantly has been relatively measured, like warning us in advance before they shot missiles at our base because they don't want to get absolutely fucking decimated.

And it's like, at some point, though, what if like Ali Valles has been out sort of making this observation?

At some point, they are going to calculate that they need to exact some sort of cost in response or else they're just going to get bombed every six to eight months in perpetuity.

Do you see the reports in the Times that the Supreme Leader has said, like, name, like, four levels of succession?

It's like, sir, that's a great idea in theory, but in practice, when, like, the missiles are raining down on you, I don't know that your, like, your carpool, you know, snow day phone tree is going to quite work.