So, I predict that we're not going to be able to rebuild the bases. We won't be able to. That's why Iran shot twice the missiles at the UAE and at Israel. Exactly. To let them know the U.S. cannot protect you and you need to find a new partner. And I think what's going to happen is this opens up the door for China or Iran to come in and influence it after this conflict is done. We're not going to have a presence in the Gulf anymore.

And I'll tell you this with, and we were talking about this yesterday the Zagros Mountains. And then obviously, because Iran is like literally fortified. So, like, to the west, you got the Zagros Mountains, which, you know, Saddam Hussein had a very difficult time. With being able to traverse that. And then obviously, you got the Albors Mountains to the north. So, an invasion would be catastrophic. I mean, we were struggling with, you know, some weirdos with the Taliban in Afghanistan with the way that their setup is, the geography with the mountains. It would be a nightmare with an actual real military because keep in mind the IRGC is not their army. They got something called the Artesh. The IRGC is like a whole other component that answers directly to the Supreme Leader. So, and they're like a million strong between all their different armed forces. So, it would be a nightmare to do a ground assault into Iran.

Our ships can't even get close, so they'll sink them. The Navy's telling Trump, no, we're not going in close because they know the ships will get hit, and then Trump will go to full frickin' war. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs has absolutely gotten in Trump's face. I've confirmed it from people in CENTCOM and Army Special Operations. It's all happening. Thank God our military is restraining Trump and the freaking neocon lunatics.

And I think the biggest issue is for myself, most other Americans, working class, and former military, there's no clear objective. He contradicts himself back and forth multiple times a day. We don't have a clear objective. So how can we be successful if we don't know what we're trying to accomplish?

The prize are the heights above the Straits of Hormuz. What's going to happen is you're going to have two battalions of the 82nd Airborne land and gain control of those, the heights. And then you're going to bring Army rifle battalions in there to secure it. Meanwhile, the Marines are going to take the islands in the Straits. It's a 72 hour operation. After that's done, the Gulf Cooperation Council puts their troops in there to hold it. The oil starts flowing, and then we slow roll the rest of Iran. And what happens when the Iranians, using their other bases, hit those targets? That's what this diversion is about, Alex. The president talking about nuking and all of this is to get those revolutionary guard corps away from the heights above the Straits of Hormuz. This is all about the Straits of Hormuz.

Our aircraft carriers, these are gazillion-dollar assets when you include they're surrounded with submarines, destroyers, et cetera. They have to stay more than 600 miles from Iran and keep moving so that they aren't hit by Iranian missiles, they hope.

And I think that I think Trump was misled into thinking that this would be like Venezuela, that it's that we're going to do a decapitation strike that he refers to. It's an assassination strike. And then it'll be all over. The people will rise up. This is what he was sold.

And the men will follow orders, but the Pentagon has always said, don't do it. It's a suicide mission.

Trump has walked into a trap.

And Israel and the neocons know that, and they are putting us into a trap. And, you know, the earlier caller said, Well, I don't know who's saying this is a trap to send the Marines into Craig Island. That's what all the analysts are saying, including former high-level CIA officers. I've got the quotes and clips right here when we play them. Like, I don't know who they are. I mean, it's a trap to put 2,500 Marines on an island surrounded by cliffs with weapons all over it. And the island itself is like a Japanese island in World War II. I mean, come on. Come on. Sound like a trap to me.

You're going to have to put in per site thousands of troops. They'll have to take out all the defensive sites around it, any bases around it. Then they've got to fight the security force that's there that's waiting. It's going to be obviously booby-trapped. Then you've got to get through all these giant steel doors. Then you've got to get it. You've got to test it. Then you've got to get out with it. That is what you call putting bait out. That is a suicide mission.

They gave him less than 10% shot that the objective, which was regime change, would work.

This is a pawn sacrifice. They are now, oh, we'll get Americans involved once we trap 7,000 U.S. troops and Marines on a death trap island surrounded by mountains and passes in their most fortified area. And then everybody's going to go, April, not happen. So this is a false flag.

Carg Island is off the table for the Marines. It's 500 miles. Can you put up number six? It's the one that says 500 miles to Cork Carg Island. Our ships don't even go near the Strait of Hormuz because it would be a shooting gallery for drones, missiles, torpedoes, unmanned vessels, you know, unmanned drone boats.

Our own destroyers won't go in there. Our destroyers will not go in there.

So dropping, dropping marines onto one of these islands in the Strait of Hormuz, to what to like be a missile target, a missile magnet, it's totally insane. Or even that northern tip of Oman, opposite the, the Strait of Hormuz, just a missile magnet, a caisson.

And so that's where, so as much as we all enjoy air superiority, it doesn't win wars. And it's not a defining military capability that can accomplish this.

Trump clearly is getting ready for a ground invasion.

A ground invasion would be just unbelievably stupid, destructive.

No, it's just a cover to get our troops in so we're committed. Just like back in the Kurds to go in out of Iraq and Syria and give them air cover and then, oh, they killed our advisors. This is how they always rope us into full war, how they rope presidents into full war.

I think he says what they did in Iraq is they need to lie to it. You know, go in, kick their ass. It's not on the news yet. And then back everybody off and go ahead and give it to all the other Gulf countries and say, here you go. We'll give it to you on a silver platter. And now we're out. And then he can come home and still be a hero.

He's still extremely intelligent, has a lot of knowledge, believes he's doing the right thing, but I would not bluff Donald Trump. I would not play chicken with Donald Trump.

We have two carriers there. We got a dozen warships, 50,000 soldiers, half of our Air Force, and Iran was going to start the war against us. Does that even make any sense? That is completely made up.

Don't ever contemplate ground troops in Iran.

No, no ground troops, but with this one caveat, if you're going to attempt regime change in Iraq, Iran, it should be for the people and it should be done using U.S. special forces who are trained to be force multipliers to go in and help organize the locals and train them in overthrowing dictators. That was the original mission of special forces. That's why their motto is Diopres oliber, to liberate the oppressed. If they were actually being used for that purpose, and if they were to free the Iranian people, who are mostly Persian, they're not even Muslim. They want to get out from under the moolahs. If that could be done in a way that actually frees them, that'd be fantastic.

Most experts believe would trigger a wider war. That's why Eric Prince, a big hawk, said, don't do it.

And if anybody says, like these idiots on Fox News, like General Keene, that we can win with air power and force a regime change and come out to a better outcome, they are smoking crack. Absolutely. That would be a disaster.

Information drives operations.

The Pentagon has confirmed they've drawn up plans to take it by force.

So yes, so Trump has a President Trump has a beachhead in the military of loyalty. I believe he'd start with SOCOM troops. That's why I advocated back in 2020. Use SOCOM troops. Use your, you know, across the whole spectrum, Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines. They all got SOCOM troops. They've got special warfare guys. Those are your true patriots. They really are. So use them.

But another thing China does is they actually require many of their commercial vessels that have nothing to do with the military to build to military standards for two reasons. One, because it means that all the shipyards are being built to handle military standards. Two, they plan on basically, you know, they're going to press all of these civilian vessels into service. So they're saying, hey, you have this roll-on, roll-off car ferry that's used for moving cars around, for delivering cars to the United States. You have to build it to deck plate pressures that allow us to roll a bunch of tanks onto it so that we can then use it to deliver tanks to Taiwan from the Chinese mainland. And they're just requiring people to do that. And so even their civilian shipping fleet is actually this kind of military ghost fleet just sitting in the open, pretending to be civilian. But the moment the shit hits the fan, it becomes part of the war machine.

They're gonna attack, a pincer attack, well triple attack from the south and from the east out of Russia into Kharkiv and then into Kiev from the north.

They're gonna encircle Kiev and then they're gonna give people, the civilians, a few weeks to get out and then they're gonna flag.

So, did Israel do pawn sacrifice? 100%. On October 7th.

I'm saying to Trump and the Pentagon, listen. That's the best, quickest move. You can't put a patty cake with these people, and you know that. China's going to move into Taiwan before the end of the year, probably sooner. And they've got sleeper cells all over the damn country. We're totally overrun. All you can do is decapitate the leadership.

I think it's really interesting because Alex kind of advocates a war crime in this next clip. But the way he's presenting it is very strange. Well, the real attacks happen. This isn't Al-Qaeda made up. This is real. So that's the first part that I think is really weird. I think another reason that he is respecting them is he thinks that they're real terrorists as opposed to 9-11, which was staged. All of these fake terrorists out there and stuff like that. So I think that he thinks that they're a noble enemy for him to fight against. And therefore, you gotta give it to him, but I'm still going to fight you. A great warrior can only be killed by a greater warrior. Anything else would be... I think that's a piece of this which is really, really fucked up. That is fucked up. It's not reflective of reality at all. No. So here's where he advocates a war crime. And you just give him... You give him 12 hours to get out of the ports, and you destroy Somalia's ports. I mean, do you think that's a bad idea?

I've got boys who just came back from Africa. They don't know what they were doing in Africa. They don't know why they were shooting at certain people. They don't know why we have troops in Eastern Africa.