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He says the United States has entered a war of attrition against an opponent that prepared for it for decades, studied earlier exchanges, and knows how to attack the Gulf systems that quietly prop up American finance. The key image is not a tank battle. It is a cheap drone making a rich desert city run out of water, while million-dollar interceptors miss and the aura of invincibility evaporates. 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So, my first point is that the United States military is not designed to fight a 21st century war. Remember that the military industrial complex came into being after World War II, and it was designed to fight the Cold War. And the Cold War was really about muscle flexing, about who was able to send people up into space, who was able to first get the person on the moon, who had the more complex missile systems. Right. So the entire American military strategy revolves around very sophisticated technology that costs a lot of money to build. And that's what the American air defense system is, is basically. And that's why we're seeing this asymmetry, as you point out, in this war, where you have these million dollar missiles trying to take out these $50,000 drones, and it's not sustainable in the long term. Right. Right. Right. 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So everyone says that the worst calamity that could happen in the United States is if it were to send ground troops into Iran. The same time the United States are committed to regime change in Iran. We've never had a precedent in history where you were able to regime change from the air alone. You need ground troops. And so unfortunately, what's going to happen over the next few months? And the only thing that's going to happen over the next few months is that pressure will build on America to send ground troops, especially from the GCC countries and from Israel, which are being pounded right now by the Iranians. So remember that if the GCC countries Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Iran, if they go, then the petrodollar goes goes with them. So the Americans need to protect these countries. And these countries are going to demand that either. 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In fact, Saudi Arabia sees Iran as much more of an existential crisis than Israel. Remember, Israel still has nuclear weapons. Yeah. Israel is a very diverse, very sophisticated economy, whereas Saudi Arabia is completely reliant on oil. And it's always had problems with Iran because Iran is a theocracy opposed to the Saudi monarchy. Iran funds and equips the Houthis, which have been antagonistic towards Saudi Arabia for the longest time. And right now, the Saudi economy is suffering. It's been trying to pivot towards the Saudi economy. It's been trying to pivot towards the Saudi economy. So it's more of a tourist economy. That's why they brought in Renato. That's why they're switching to e -gaming. That's why they're building something called a line, NEOM. And all these things are not working out. 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You had in advance of this war on Iran, you had top military brass up to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying, this is a really bad idea. We are not ready for this. You know, all the math on the interceptors that's been talked about for months at this point. And yet Trump still decided to go ahead. 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Okay. So this is the key question. Why do they do this? I think there are three possibilities. Okay. And I think all three possibilities are valid. The first is that of hubris. You look at history. This is how empires behave. This is how they operate. This is how they behave. So the Mindoro kidnapping was quick, successful, and it was adrenaline rush for Trump. And that made him overconfident in the capacity of the American military. Okay. So hubris is a factor. And we see this throughout history. Why did Hitler invade Stalin? Because he conquered Europe really easily, and he thought it was invincible. Right. And that led to the destruction of the German army in the Soviet Union. So hubris is a factor. Then you have to look at internal political calculus, where even though America does not benefit from this war against Iran, Trump himself personally benefits. Why? 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