Iran Mistakes, The Save Act, and Havana Syndrome | Unfiltered w Malcolm Nance
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What are the current geopolitical tensions involving Iran?
Welcome back, Malcolm. How are you? I mean, literally, this is like, it's like we're always on duty. My life is now an ops center. And I'm the collector, the analyst, the ops officer, and the communicator all at once. And this Iran war is dominating everything. I don't get cups of coffee. I have actual entire. You've got the whole thing. Yeah. So, you know, we're we're calling it a war and then we're not calling it a war. And now the president is calling it an excursion. Maybe he means incursion. I don't I don't know. I think that's what he means. But he's going to keep saying excursion like it's some kind of vacation. Can I tell you where he got that? Where did he get that? You obviously never went ashore in a Persian Gulf tour.
Since 19... When I was a kid, back in 1985... They would sell these patches when you would in shop to the Persian Gulf. They had a patch that you would buy in like the ship store or on NS, you know, Naval Support Activity Bahrain that had a camel with a little, you know, headdress being chased by a missile. And it says on it, Persian excursion. It has been known as the Persian Excursion since the mid-'80s, operations in the Persian Gulf. We're in this war, and it literally changes by the hour, certainly daily, what's going on. We now have the Strait of Hormuz shut down. Eight American troops are killed, hundreds more are injured, not to mention the thousands of people in Iran who have been killed.
We've got tankers burning. in the Persian Gulf, um, oil futures are spiking. They're talking about mining the straight, uh, Trump is, was very excited yesterday. He came to Kentucky, uh, where I live and he boasted about how our United States military had destroyed 30 some mine ships. Um, and that was, he was happy about that. I mean, what, where do you see the overall status of this war and what's going on right now? Well, you know, there are two components to this war. Well, three, if you want to throw in Israel. But the two components are, one, the United States Armed Forces is doing what we do best, right? Bombs, guns, fighter jet rides. And we go out and you tell us, you point us at something and you tell us to use the utmost precision to go out and destroy that.
We'll do it like clockwork. We're excellent at this. Granted, we do have mistakes like hitting accidentally hitting that girl school in down there, Bandar Abbas. That's what happens when a young sailor who's tired is one keystroke off. 300 meters, right? Because we can hit within one meter with a Tomahawk cruise missile. But we're doing our thing.
How are U.S. military operations impacting Iran's nuclear capabilities?
And granted, we are devastating Iran's armed forces, the regular armed forces and their ballistic missile forces and what remnants of the nuclear program that they had last year. But from the first day I ever went to the Persian Gulf, in the mid-1980s, it has never been about their armed forces. Their strength has never been that. And now they are striking back within an asymmetric way, using our weaknesses as their strength. Our biggest weakness is right now they are carrying out an economic war, not just against the United States, against the world. and the world is going to pressure the united states which is why they're hitting they've hit 12 tankers four five in the last 24 hours including an american owned one that was just blown up in basra iraq a few hours ago uh and damaged another one that was with it by an underwater boat
An underwater drone. So Iran's asymmetric power of the RevGuard doing things like blowing up oil refineries in Abu Dhabi, destroying pipelines in Bahrain, this is where the real power is. They are losing trillions of dollars, not billions. trillions in global production is going away because Donald Trump thought he could overthrow a regime from the air. I think about the National War College, the Naval War College. But when you go through the military and you get to a certain rank, whether it's major, lieutenant colonel, commander, that kind of thing. You go through these sort of strategic schools where you do war games.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the current geopolitical tensions involving Iran?
0:06–3:20
2
How are U.S. military operations impacting Iran's nuclear capabilities?
3:20–15:13
3
What mistakes were made regarding the bombing of a girls' school in Iran?
15:13–17:50
4
What is the SAVE Act and its implications?
17:50–21:23
5
How is the Havana Syndrome affecting U.S. diplomats?
21:23–23:54
6
What does the discussion reveal about U.S. foreign policy under Trump?
23:54–30:55
7
How are American embassies responding to threats abroad?
30:55–46:57
8
What are the long-term effects of the current military actions?
46:57–46:58