Chapter 1: What threats has President Trump made regarding Iran?
Last night in a post on Truth Social, he wrote, quote, if Iran doesn't fully open without threat, the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate the various power plants, starting with the biggest one first. Obliterate. And obliterate. We know how obliterate went a few months ago.
These threats seem to be coming hourly and scattershot, pardon the analogy, from this president, which makes me wonder still, as I was thundering yesterday, Do they even know what they're doing? I think the thing that was there's a lot of interesting things in this post, but he has said over and over, we don't need the straight up hormones. Everything's fine.
So why is he so angry that it's closed? Because the truth is, we do need the United States.
Chapter 2: Why is the Strait of Hormuz significant to global trade?
Everybody in the world uses it in some way, shape or form. And so you when you have a president who uses smoke and mirrors, who obfuscates, who lies, who allies and adversaries can't actually communicate.
understand what you want or what you're thinking about or what you might do who knows what this 48 hours means he loves and he loves to throw out a time 48 hours two weeks and within the next two weeks The civil defense went and killed people. It's a big attack now, as you can see in this picture. It's a big destruction.
At the same time, at this point, we are essentially funding a war against ourselves as we have eased Iran-Hin sanctions. And so the more we continue to bomb out their infrastructure, whether it's energy, oil, anything that is coming out of that area, but continue to ease sanctions and try to alleviate some of the economic pressures happening, it is a vicious cycle here.
And it's putting our service members who are there and the others who are steaming their way there in danger.
Chapter 3: How is the U.S. military responding to the situation in Iran?
And the Americans that live in the region. Right. And not to mention everybody else in the Middle East. Right. And the one thing that I feel like all of us keep hearing on the show and off the show is just that Trump cannot unilaterally decide that this war is over. That takes multiple parties at this point. And Iran sees what is going on now as the sole leverage that they have left.
And that is all lies in mucking up what's going on in the Strait of Hormuz. And I think even if he decided he wanted to end this tomorrow, I'm not sure that's an option anymore. We have weeks or possibly months of impact.
Chapter 4: What role do allies play in the U.S. strategy against Iran?
And also, when countries are desperate, when human beings are desperate, they act in certain ways. And so what we're seeing in the Strait of Hormuz, what Iran might do if Donald Trump goes through with this threat, Iran, again, like you said, has a vote. But most importantly, when they're desperate, they might do things that we haven't even thought of at this point.
I think an increasing number of countries are starting to see their own interests at stake here and are starting to think about what they can do to contribute to efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and to protect their own national interests. However, they're limited really in the capabilities that they can offer. So we've already seen the UK and other countries
expand access for the United States to use their bases in more ways. And there's some talk among states in the Gulf, as well as the UK, of potentially contributing to US and Israeli offensive strikes on Iran. And so that's something that we could see in the next couple of days, which would be yet another escalatory step.
But as far as these countries contributing naval capabilities for some kind of effort to forcibly reopen the Strait of Hormuz, I see that as very unlikely, just given the constraints on their capabilities and their historic unwillingness to take on the types of risk that type of operation would involve.
Chapter 5: How is Iran's military capability affecting regional stability?
Iran endangers the entire world in the last 48 hours. In the last 48 hours, Iran targeted a civilian area. They're doing that as a mass murder weapon. Luckily, no one was killed, but that's due to luck, not their intention. Their intention is to murder civilians.
Second, they are using, they fired on Jerusalem right next to the holy sites of the three monotheistic faiths, the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. And by dint of a miracle, again, none of them were hurt. But they were targeting the holy sites of the three major monotheistic religions. They fired an intercontinental ballistic missile on Diego Garcia.
That's 4,000 kilometers.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of missile strikes in the conflict?
I've been warning all the time. They have now the capacity to reach deep into Europe. They already have fired on a European country, Cyprus. They are putting everyone in their sights. And fourth, they're stopping a maritime attack. international route, energy route, and trying to blackmail the entire world.
What more proof do you need that this regime that threatens the entire world has to be stopped? Israel and the United States are working together for the entire world. And it's time to see the leaders of the rest of the countries join up. I'm happy to say that I can see some of them beginning to move in that direction, but more is needed.
Chapter 7: How does the conflict impact the relationship between Israel and the U.S.?
President Trump's call to have the international community confront this terrorist fanatic regime of zealots, that is a call not only for the security of America and the security of Israel, but for the security of the entire world. And it's time for them to act. Sir, what will your response be to this attack on Israeli civilians? We're responding with great force, but not in civilians.
We're going after the regime. We're going after the IRGC, this criminal gang. And we're going after them personally, their leaders, their installations, their economic assets. We're going after them very strongly. What does victory look like in this campaign? Well, we've defined two clear goals.
Chapter 8: What are the potential outcomes of the ongoing conflict with Iran?
One is to break completely their nuclear program. break completely their missile program, break completely their capacity to produce the components for both of these programs, we're well on our way on achieving it.
We've also set a goal of creating conditions for the Iranian people to overthrow this tyranny that has tormented them and made life miserable and is making life miserable for the entire world. And I hope we achieve that, too. Overnight, President Trump said that if in 48 hours the Iranians don't open the Strait of Hormuz, that there will be strikes against the power grids in Iran.
Will you participate in those strikes? And what do you think should happen next in this campaign? I think President Trump knows exactly what he's doing. And whatever we do, we do together and as far as possible in confidence. As the prime minister was leaving, I asked him about President Trump, and he talked about the great relationship that these two leaders have amid Operation Epic Fury.
The operation has now entered week four, and we do anticipate heavier strikes against the Iranian regime in the hours and days ahead. And a lot has been discussed this week about whether the U.S. would take Karg Island. The president of the United States has expressed an interest in doing so. What would happen if that were to take place? And what does that mean exactly?
Well, that does seem to be one possible option that the Pentagon and the White House are considering. And it's something that Marines that are on their way to the region could potentially participate in. It's something that they would be trained for, an amphibious type operation. However, it would be very high risk and would likely involve significant US casualties for very low gains.
I think the strategy here is that if the United States were able to seize this island, which would significantly reduce Iran's ability to export oil, it would be an economic shock to Iran that would limit its ability to continue fighting. But there's a few problems with that. that logic. The first is it assumes the U.S. operation will be successful, and there's definitely no guarantee of that.
Amphibious operations are very difficult, and even if forces were able to come onto the island, they would be subject to drone attacks and artillery fire. So there's no assurance here that that would be a successful operation. Even if they did that, it would do nothing to reopen the Strait forcibly. It's not the right location for that. And right now, Iran's strategy is very low cost.
It does not need a lot of revenue to fire a few dozen drones and missiles to keep the strait closed and to keep the pressure on the Gulf states and the United States. So I guess I see this as a very bad option. It has very high risk, high costs, and very little upside potential, in my view. I swear it fell. But why did it fall? I swear it fell. I swear it fell. But it fell. . .
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