Iran war update: Operations, casualties, Hormuz, and the information battlefield

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The National Security Hour exposes the wolves and sheep clothing and then a various plots

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Welcome back, America. This is your host, Fred Galman on Thursday the 26th of March,

2026. And now it's time for the National Security Hour. Tonight, ladies and gentlemen,

it's very important. I may sound a bit repetitive, but we have American service members,

the sons and daughters of our nation. Right now, as we speak, in war and going to war,

which is a very serious matter. And that is why it is important to give another update on what is

going on in Iran, and especially it's important because there is a lot of disinformation. And I will

say it's beyond that. It meets the threshold of information warfare regarding not just what's

going on, but what organizations who are paid professionals for certain countries are out there

using media and omnichannel media, social media to create this demoralization and to present

information, which is not factually correct. And that is why our show tonight is so critically

important and is important for those of you who are listening to send this to many who believe

that this war was unjust and unprovoked. We talked about this in the past, but we wanted today

focus on the tale of the tape of actually what is going on because there's a lot of information that

people have seen videos. And it's not fact checked. It's not credible. But it looks that way.

And as any I've never been in the secret service, but is the secret service

who has a mission besides just protecting key executives in the US government, but to also stop

counterfeiting. And as they will tell you, the best counterfeits are the ones that are closest

to the truth, the ones that look and feel completely authentic. And that's what we're seeing with

some of these fake news media reports. Fake news is actually in progress and it's real and it's

causing a lot of Americans become divided because they're getting information which may have some

contained some facts, but it's in many ways that's where it leaves off. The rest of it is false.

It's showing and I've seen some of these of American ships that have been sunk and how we're

running out of ammunition and how there is substantial amount of these going out there. These are

created by our foreign intelligence units and they have great effect when they're launched on

social media platforms and it looks completely authentic. And people start to

and they know what they're doing. Obviously they study psychology. They know the strongest human

emotion that can compel someone is through fear. And that's what it's designed to do is to target

certain audiences in the United States and also around the world, but they have a target audience

here in the United States that they are really amplifying this message and this narrative that

America's losing this war almost out of ammunition is costing us so much and we need to get to the

facts of that. So that's why today I want to talk about we'll first dive into the tale of the tape

as far as what is going on regarding the casualties, what are the facts on both sides.

And some of these material losses are not the exact numbers are not given because some of that

is classified. We cannot lay out all of our cards that exactly everything that was lost but we're

going to go with what we know and what is available that is unclassified to report. And like I've said

to people before, some people may not enjoy hearing these facts but they will be facts. And I

encourage anybody if it is not factually correct, let me know. If it's classified, you know,

you can report me but I'm getting all this from vetted sources of the most current information and

as I've said in the last week's show, this is constantly changing. So there could be information

that happens in the next, you know, from when I'm saying this to when you listen to it, that can

definitely change. And I will say this, it will change. So but from the time I'm reading this and

have pulled these facts, this is where we stand and it's important to understand. So let's frame this

that this is costing both sides and it is causing some destabilization but the United States is

watching this very kinetic war. Iran is responding both kinetically and they also are responding in an

asymmetric way using information warfare to to enter the cognitive space in American's minds to

make it seem like this is a lost cause to create fear, especially in many of these individuals who are

you know, they may have loved ones overseas and it's it's wreaking havoc. But we're going to go

to the tale of tape and much of this is able to be a fact check me. I pulled a lot of this from

writers and which I believe has accurately been reporting the facts that they've been given from

the public affairs office from the central command down Tampa, Florida for the United States.

That's the organization in the US Department of War that focuses and has control and authority

of American forces in the Middle East. But as right now, February 28th or as right now,

the 26th of March, since this war that we have launched in Iran on the 28th of February,

we have experienced the following casualties. 13 US service members have been killed so far

and a separate 200 Americans have been wounded. We're going to get into

how severe most of those are just a little bit, but most of them have been assessed as minor injuries.

So which is significant. We've had seven of those 13 who were killed in action on the American side.

There were from missile and drone strikes on base and then obviously we had six

loss from the KC-135 refueling aircraft, Air Force aircraft that was attacked and all personnel

on that were killed. But besides that incident, seven others were killed from missile and drone

strikes, which is terrible. Just like those 13 that we lost at Abigate, which unfortunately

the left just did not seem to focus on very much at all, but any loss of American lives

from our adversaries is something that every American should be concerned with and it should not be

a political contentious point. It should be something that our nation grieves

to every last man and woman in America. So now I will cover a little bit more in depth,

the 200 American personnel who have been wounded in action. As I said before, the majority

were assessed as minor injuries. We've actually had 10 and this is

plus or minus. I'll say that are serious injuries and that's how the central command wanted to

keep that, but around 10 that were serious injuries. Most of those 200 have been returned to duty

already. And we did lose one US Air Force F-15. The pilot did survive and there is a report of

one F-35 that was hit and damaged by Iranian fire and the aircraft did survive and did an emergency

landing. But of the thousands of aircraft sorties, those three aircraft were the ones that were hit.

Again, why am I saying this? Because there are so many reports that the number is in coming up

on half a dozen. That is not correct. It's three aircraft that have been hit and two were destroyed

and one was able to land. It's not this number that's any higher than that.

So those aircraft losses are very limited and the US Central Command did confirm that the first

US stealth aircraft was actually hit. And you can hit a stealth aircraft. I won't go into the

details of what happened in this incident. It may be stealth on radar, but you can visually acquire it

if you see it during a day. So there's different tactics that we can use and we won't get into

all those and what exactly happened in this situation that had occurred. But there's also

with that F-15 reports of friendly fire incident due to the complexity of the coalition airspace.

That's with the man to aircraft. Now we're going to talk about some losses in US equipment.

Because there has been no personnel actually on board some of the unmanned aircraft and we're

talking about this Raytheon MQ-9 armed surveillance Reaper. These are that we've had 12 plus or

minus. Let's just say that is that a dozen of these armed Reaper. These are intelligent surveillance

and reconnaissance as well as some of these are armed. These are strike platforms. We use all

across the theater and they're not fast moving. They're not stealth. They're a little bit easier to

detect and there's tactics to offset their acquisition by the adversary. But we have lost 12.

These are very high-value platform that's very expensive and especially if it's damaged and

recovered and re-engineered. There's a lot of information intelligence that can be

utilized by the enemy and those but we want to also now focus on some of these reports and I'm

going to again talk about the facts regarding naval platforms. So far there has been zero

reported by the fifth fleet commander in charge of naval forces in the Middle East or the US

Central Command no confirmed US warships as far as a combat loss from our adversary. We did have

USS Gerald Ford damage report of an onboard firing that was non-combat-related temporary. In fact

did require withdrawing out of the immediate area of operation for some

temporary withdrawal for repairs but there was no confirmed combat sinking or destruction of any

major American vessel at all and then when you put that into perspective of what we have done

inside Iran you know it's been reported about 7,800 plus or minus strikes that America has

conducted into Iran. Destroying almost the entire Iranian navy 120 plus vessels that were damaged

or destroyed which is significant to have the majority of their naval forces

sitting at the bottom of the Persian Gulf. So our losses on the US side have been relatively low

with 13 killed action again tragic and 200 wounded in action with approximately 10 of those being

severely wounded and we've had so far one KC-130 destroyed. We've had a downing of F-15 and one

F-35 as well as 12 unmanned aircraft with the reapers but as far as the navy and this is

something that is very concerning for many people especially those that have loved ones out there

as I know some of my friends do have some of their loved ones out there on naval ships but no

combat losses just one carrier temporarily degraded due to nothing having to do with Iran but these

are real losses and they are significant especially those have family members involved that all

America should be concerned and not voting and rooting for the enemy and trying to say anything

that would give Iran an upper hand in any of these types of casualties. These casualties have been

limited relatively limited and we still retain dominance in the air and maritime domains.

So let's go into some of the Iranian losses that we have. Excuse me, significant personnel

and these are reports it's very difficult to without having boots on the ground have true

accurate and I say that because I've been on the end where people have said numbers and

speaking as they're their facts I'm saying these are estimates now because we can't

accurately report on what's going on on the Iranian side but it's an estimated that approximately

1,500 personnel have been killed and that includes senior commanders, senior mula leaders,

the IRGC members and then a lot of key personnel with very technical training on air defense.

Those have been attried thousands exact numbers very unclear as far as they're wounded

and as I had reported almost entire Iranian navy has been destroyed and damaged 120 plus vehicles

that includes mind-laying vessels patrol boats, fast attack vehicles and then when you look at

how we establish air dominance to continue and to accelerate the bombardment of Iran,

their air defense and missile forces there's significant degradation of their ballistic missile

launchers, their drone launchers sites, their drone manufacturing sites and their air defense and

surface-stair missile sites. So all this is significantly leading to a mass reduction in

Iranian strike tempo and as I won't say obliterated but it's massively affected and decreased

the Iranians' missile and drone capabilities as well as their aerospace capabilities as far as

aircraft has pretty much been annihilated. They've had significant damage and infrastructure to

their military bases, their naval facilities and some of their energy and logistics nodes. So

it has not been a fair fight, it has not been something that America is either significantly damaged

or destroyed or out of ammunition or ready to capitulate as it has been stated in the news but

don't go away we're going to go break and we'll be right back with more right after this. So

we want to talk about some of the asymmetric threats so don't go away.

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left off with we just finished discussing the tale of the tape of the American and Iranian

military losses as far as personnel that were wounded killed and material military material

significant material that was a destroyed damaged but now we want to talk about what that

means to Iran and their ability to continue to wage war and some of the resiliency that they have

exists in what I'm about ready to say in these spaces but it militarily as far as their offensive

kinetic something that they can strike our ships with has been significantly degraded now the

space they operate on is in these following realms as I mentioned before with their asymmetric warfare

they they are very good at using psychological and information warfare to to create this fear and

to seed disinformation and plant seeds that carry a lot of weight they do a lot of damage especially

inside our United States where people in a certain political party want to instead of making

America great and trying to encourage and support those Americans that are in harm's way they want

to take their hatred out on one individual just destroy he or anything that he may be doing

and they're doing that unfortunately on a daily basis through psychological and information warfare

which you can see is having a big effect on those not just in America but those around the world I

see this wherever I go and is very unfortunate but besides the information warfare they also

Iranians are are continuing as the worldwide's largest supporter and financier of terrorism

they have these proxy forces and we mentioned this on several shows in the past so they have

these assets across the region in the Middle East that are conducting attacks on US Navy ships

unsuccessfully right now we've learned a lot of valuable lessons and but the Houthis who have

who have been firing for over four years and it largely went unreported during the last administration

there are several attacks against our naval vessels in the Middle East and these same proxy forces

are conducting missile and drone attacks and different every type of attack they can with

mortars this is going on as we speak and I've had fed some of my friends some of their loved ones

have been impacted by this that's all say I'll leave it at that but they are attacking our American

forces in Iraq and in Syria and in Jordan and places throughout the Middle East and this is this is

serious is this is not Iran directly this is people who Iran has trained who they've given equipment

to and who you know they're paying their financing that these militias across the Middle East to

attack American forces and also Israeli forces but we're talking today focused on the United States

except for this next bit which is how I ran is really choking out the world in regards to the

Straits of Hormuz and they're controlling the energy through that disruption that they have a

little choke point there and they focused on that tactic for decades they knew that they cannot

go toe-to-toe with the superpowers such as the United States they realize that so they're there's a

communist tactic that's called imposed costs and the communist don't ease it exclusively but

China continually puts this in their doctrine saying what the Russians is to impose costs and

that's exactly what's going on right now is just to inflict you know pain financially on

countries and this is what's going on and they're doing it I think to their own detriment because

that's going to bolster in my opinion my estimate that some of these gold states which are losing

significant you know financial resources the longer this goes on and when you reinforce that

with how Iran has been firing missile and drone attacks on civilian infrastructure with

with gold state nations this is I believe something that's going to work against Iran and the

long run and especially when they're launching attacks and hitting longer range targets that's

threatening other nations inside Europe and if it hits assets like it has before with British assets

and led to the death of French service member this again is something that I think in the long run

you know it may be just because of the egos of some of these mulas who are now calling the shots

but it's it's going to be devastating as more and more forces are aligned in some form or

fashion to either restore the energy distribution through the either the Straits of Hormuz or

and more challenging and unless effective ways through pipelines but they're they're going to

figure out ways to bypass our Iran I do believe what Iran's doing is very short lived and will

will be found a way to to breach that obstacle but they are imposing cost in creating this instability

which is expanding now but you know we see the the use of longer range missiles and the potential threat

of those missiles impacting military sites as far away as the potential to strike Diego Garcia

in Indian Ocean so this is something that we are having to recalculate our military leaders as well as

I am I'm willing to you know wager that our adversaries our pure adversaries Russia and China

are sharing information and as they have a significant amount of strategic assets in space

and collecting information on where American assets are particularly either on the ground

or maritime forces that information being shared is is does put our us forces at great risk

and we have to continually be vigilant and our forces to you know be outside of weapons

engagement zone and when we do for reasons move inside that weapons engagement zone it's it's for

for brief periods where it's a limited hearted or to detect and further away from certain known

assets that have the range to impact our assets but we're constantly looking to focus on the offensive

fight will maintaining a defensive fight but but bottom line in all this is our real losses on both

sides but the U.S. losses they're very limited Iranian losses they're very very heavy and I believe

as now we've established dominance in the airspace although there have been losses to our aircraft

and they're likely continue to be I believe the number of sorties which has been increasing

is going to inflict greater so when you look at a massive comparison there's going to be much more

to a higher coefficient as far as the number of casualties on the Iranian side and I think

we're just going to continue that pounding believe many will look at you know okay without

congressional approval we have 60 days so I believe the U.S. is going to continue to surge

assets as much as we can to to dominate tactically and reduce those strategic assets inside Iran but

what has already gone on is is significant in as far as the losses and shaping

what's going on in in Iran and their decision making which is why we I believe we're seeing right now

Donald Trump has mentioned and hopefully when this is a listen to by the listeners you're you're

able to hopefully we have some favorable news as far as at least some agreement and talks that

are ongoing as we speak on when and if the streets of Hormuz can be opened back up and I think

that could be a huge win possibly on both sides but there is some negotiations going on right now

and and that is that's showing that this administration is not just one sided a lot of people

feel that oh you know they're just quick to react and the deal was on the 27th of February

that Iran walked away from the table was that they would be allowed to have nuclear energy for

civilian purposes for free forever and if you can't accept that that is an unbelievable deal I take

that if somebody said you have to give up something but you'll get energy for free for the rest of

your life that's that's amazing it's almost too good to be true but that was the deal and they

walked away from the table so bottom line is the rhetoric that Iran has stated for decades as far

as death to America death is real and they they do mean that and they are working on the means to

make that a reality so there's rhetoric now but we don't want reality and when certain people

and it can be just like I mentioned in the last episode at the close when you had a former director

of counterterrorism center saying you know there was no imminent threat we don't need and we don't

want to have a loaded gun up against our head with the hammer cock that's an imminent threat that's

what you want to provide some space and some ways out but trying to say that that's that's our

instinct that's what we're seeking before we take any action that's that's absurd Iran has been

working towards this they they would not stop they walked away from the table and they eventually

in time whether they manufactured themselves or they buy it from somebody else that would have

been the reality in a very dangerous reality that no one either in the Middle East as you're seeing

these airports and civilian targets attacked across the Middle East with Gulf state nations nobody

wants that but we want this fighting to end and that's exactly what the chairman of the joint

chiefs of staff general Dan Cain has been saying is you know he wants this fighting to end and

that's what we're doing with our war department the stick and the carrot with our state department is

we want to reach some type of an agreement but we're not going to let up we're we're easing off

temporarily uh to to provide some breathing room and not to allow the Iranians to regroup and

to buy time but to allow them to understand that we are serious about negotiations we want

have free and fair trade and have access through incredibly vital choke points such as the

streets of war moves but we will not back off as far as the use of force to make sure that you know

they do understand that okay so now let's uh discuss some of these targets that Iran when people say

there's a lot of this fake news or information warfare saying that America or Israel has focused

on civilian targeting and through a Tomahawk or it's it's been alleged but since we in there's been

no means you know nobody's wanting to allow uh international press or investigators in to see

if these 100 alleged 120 there's the numbers been wildly reported as far as the actual how many

casualties occurred but these alleged deaths at a woman uh children's school um for young young

girls we don't know what those facts are but we'd love to know and just like these negotiations going

on in Pakistan right now um we should have people being able to go in and investigate but it's

I guess too high risk right now and that that says something but when you look at the flip side

of the coin and what Iran is doing Iran is the one that's actively targeting civilian infrastructure

and I'm talking ports and hotels these are not places that uh in the United Arab Emirates

the Emirates are not having weapons inside these airports uh that threaten Iran by any means

but they are they're seeking to and Iran is seeking to inflict uh loss of key critical

infrastructure such as oil infrastructure and diplomatic sites and they're also targeting some

military sites but uh these these are not missing weapons that uh have a probability of error

that just went astray and accidentally hit some airport uh that's is intentional targeting

and I believe as I said that's that's working against it's going to backfire strategically

by pushing previously cautious gold states closer towards the United States

um efforts to to end this and it's not just the immediate direct hey you're you're targeting

the this and it's hurting our infrastructure and targeting civilians yeah that's that's not one of

these gold states wants but also when you choke off you know their main resource as far as the

exporting of uh oil that is that is definitely going to get senior senior leaders and princes

attention inside you know the the Arabian Peninsula so that's uh also were currently seen

on the European side um and this is again through Reuters there is a significant amount

of change going on day on a day by day basis almost so um you've seen this with Italy and Spain

and the Netherlands um even in France um some of these are posturing defensively

um but I believe that's that's likely going to change especially if there's more casualty

on any of these European sides and as the Europeans who have assets in you know um commercial assets

that become degraded were I believe we're going to see more sentiment that hey you know

we're not just going to hang on the sidelines forever uh interesting how you know eight decades ago

America was the one that was um being protested at by the Europeans as far as needing to get in the

fight just like we didn't uh but there was you know we had this more passive approach prior to

entering World War I and World War II but um now we have the exact opposite where Europe is

is very cautious about uh entering any type of direct offensive operations in in the Middle East

but uh they do have interest there they have bases troops and energy assets that they truly do need

and that's why this really important focus there in the Straits of Hormuz is a choke point that

has become the center of gravity and it's going to take a significant amount of time to produce

that same level of production uh that goes in these massive oil super tankers that you observe

out there on the high seas you know trying to reroute that or put it through a pipeline

do I believe that could be eventually done I do believe that and I do believe that some people

are looking at the probability in long term of is Iran going to capitulate and cooperate and

allow the trade and access through the Straits of Hormuz or do we need to continue to

expand our our focus on building a greater pipeline that can you know work around whether it's

to the west or to the south to get oil out of the the Gulf so but don't go away we're going to talk

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Welcome back America this is your host Greg Alvin we're picking back up we're talking about

what many people have discussed and about 10 days ago we saw the movement of U.S. Marines

on amphibious shipping moving from northeast asia they're in basically a

japan and they loaded up the 31st marine expeditionary unit with that expeditionary strike group

and move them towards the central command area and that is not a routine deployment for marine

stationed inside the pacific area of operation that is something generally tasked to east or

west coast marine units that are embarked upon shipping so this is a non-standard deployment

and it shows america is willing to surge not just pure naval assets in the form of

maritime and aviation strike capabilities but we're also willing to look at having marines

and there's connotations that we have not that i have heard of specified exactly how and where

and that's smart not to do but sending amphibious task force that has a very diverse capabilities

in the marines from the 31st Mew they do retain this capability that wants every marine

expeditionary unit used to have and that is a capability to come in not just with amphibious

assault vehicles and hella-borne capabilities but to also come in through small boats and to

have reconnaissance elements be able to infiltrate in a multi domain whether it's from the sea

they can also come in from the air and from parachuting is very capable but it's a force that's

relatively light numerically and being a retired marine some people you know laugh and mug out

2500 marines you can't really do that much and cargyle and does have significant numbers and

significant assets there that you kind of wonder is is sending a less than 3,000 marines

enough and lo and behold this last week we've received this report that another marine

expeditionary strike group that has 2500 marines with the USS boxer and in those they have

F-35 which is the joint strike fighters America's new fifth generation aircraft both of these

platforms bring that to bear that no now you're actually having another squadron of aviation

assets reinforcing what these carrier based aviation assets that can be launched from off the

catapults of these aircraft carriers well each of these amphibious ships has a rotary wing

assets that can go in and conduct attacks and drop troops off as well as aviation assets that can

go in and and really put a lot of pressure so now we're having 5,000 marines and that's actually

two infantry battalions or just what we call a regimental minus and we've done this before

in Afghanistan when we first went in there and they put a one-star marine general in charge of it

that time in the beginning of Afghan war that was General Mattis was termed as task force 58 which

went into the Candahar airfield and held that for other special operations forces to also go in

and conduct operations against al-Qaeda and the Taliban and it seems like we have this similar type

force being shaped up right now and we also have a a one-star general that's for deployed into the

Bahrain where that general has a headquarters and I'd have to do some more research and investigation

to see if if that one star has been designated to be the the commander of this these two marine

expeditionary units or what is when they come together and into one organization it's called

the Marine Exposition Brigade but that is a definite naval asset that can be possibly utilized

very near Iran they're on the Carg Island to to shape some in and maybe that's just the carrot

and the stick putting pressure on Iran during these negotiations that now we have all these assets

and now we have 5,000 marines so we've up the anti and could we send more marines or could we

send the 81st Airborne Division or the 101st I don't believe that's something that I mean I'm sure

it's it's on the table inside the Pentagon as a potential course of action but that changes a lot

politically when you send an entire division and instead of a brigade and one thing that we've seen

recently with how both in Venezuela and here in this conflict in Iran how we're using our

naval assets we're doing this limited scale strikes from the sea in many cases and from the air

but we're doing it without actually going in and taking ground and holding that ground and to me

that is a campaign promise that no forever wars is that we're not getting decisively engaged we want

to shape certain things so that we do not have leaders in charge of countries that are oppressive

and we saw that for deck for I don't want to do public math but for too long in Venezuela and then

what we saw and some people say this was unprovoked it was an illegal war and unnecessary wars

Hakeem Jeffrey says well I guess that depends on you know which side of the table you're on I'm

I mean I do realize that China and Russia use that same rhetoric and I'm surprised that we have

politicians that that side with them and and I I always try to look at everything from three

sides of the coin and I can somewhat understand what somebody's saying is they don't want

people to have to die unnecessarily I believe I stood up against that and I stepped in at the

detriment of you know a position I used to hold in the Marine Corps when a Marine commander did

that I don't like it when anyone would say hey we need to take certain action that's unnecessary

at least to the needless loss of life but what we're talking about even when we look at the

full pictures we had tens of thousands of Iranians and some people could say so what I mean

there's genocide going on in Somalia there's there's places all across Africa where there's

true legitimate genocide going on and we do have other atrocities going on inside the United

States which some people don't know about some people don't know who do know about don't care about

but we do have slavery and that's right slavery going on when we have this human trafficking

we have sex trafficking we have forced labor going on in the United States and that is something

that the media should fully not just report on but expose and amplify that we have this going on

but get back getting back to the point of why are we in Iran conducting these operations when I say

in Iran to kinetically launching missiles firing dropping bombs on targets in Iran or not

actually boots on the ground in Iran officially not with any military assets that we've reported but

we're trying to force them to change this is it I mean when you're murdering and this is like

industrial sized you know mass scale murdering of tens of thousands that's that is unacceptable

and the fact that we can't have media or anybody inspectors going into see actually what's going

on that should be more alarming that's should I understand I I fully get and I understand the logic

why that certain people in Europe do not want to have other wars I mean they've been exhausted by

wars that have gone on in the past and I as I said myself I am the last one that wants to

sign up for a war that's that's unneeded but when you're committing genocide and then when you

are developing if you're going to do that against your own people and then you're going to chase after

weapons unrelenting that are capable of annihilating and you're saying and I've been on several shows

and I I've seen the implications of what happens in the information space and the information

environment when you have people that are talking to me on some of these shows that I've been on

and saying how I mean these are people from around the world are making comments that they wish

Iran would send a nuclear weapon in blow up America and when you use rhetoric like that that's

I mean that is just a that's what we're battling against and we need to know that that needs to go

out what I'm saying I've I've confronted people on on shows both in America and abroad that that

is their point of view and these are not long wolves and these are educated PhD professors

from multiple countries that have talked to me about this and and that's unfortunate and

you know I understand their point and they get very emotional about it but uh

you know before we started large scale operations they were talking about

um they they felt that that was necessary and they also have stated on some of these shows and

this is how powerful this information warfare is that they do believe that Russia and China

should should get involved and uh turn this into a world war and I'm hearing this from

people with PhDs you know from great Britain and from Belgium and other countries and you just

wondered like I thought you were pacifist and you opposed war but now you're you're actually

advocating for large scale conflict and uh we'll talk on another show about you know what that

would look like and I do believe just to quickly finish it on this subject but I do believe that we

need to avoid having some kind of world war I do believe that Russia and China are just seeing

what is going on currently with this war in progress and they're making a lot of evaluations

as far as okay um you know this could drive China further into Russia's domain that would be

very unfortunate because that's definitely not the case that they're not two countries that are

in love they do cooperate but uh yeah that is uh could be an unintended outcome that we hope does

not happen but for China to conduct future large scale offensive operations they would need to have

almost unlimited energy and with what is going on in Venezuela and

Iran that is causing them to recalculate things right now and I'm not in those discussions but

you guarantee that is going on as far as their views on how to sustain this do they have enough

energy uh but let's get back to the topic regarding

what are adversaries being Iran and as well as our peer adversaries Russia and China are doing

in the information space and how that is taking a toll on the American population trying to divide us

because obviously our adversaries they gain an advantage when America is divided and we go to

the polls and if Donald Trump has less power and if he gets wrapped up into um an election where

you know it's a it's a mixed uh house and senate and they just focus as they always have

on taking Donald Trump out and impeaching him and tying him up in law fair and suing him as they've

done in the past and they will do again in America I truly do believe this this is my opinion

but I do believe what Donald Trump has said in the past is is actually a fact that

they aren't just coming after Donald Trump they're coming after America and they're coming after

those that believe in traditional American values and they're trying to dispose of that so

whether you're Robert De Niro or anyone that's living in New York and you're you're kind of upset

with what you voted for and now what you're getting with Mayor Mandami and his taxes and and some of the

you know restraints and constraints he's putting on you know some freedoms which you had

what do you think is going to happen is you're seeing happen in America's largest city and how that's

changed the way that people are thinking but if uh the law fair that is

in you know it's incontrovertible it has happened as Donald Trump went into court multiple times in

Georgia and in New York uh and I've had that happen to me that can happen to anyone in the

United States just think if if it's happened to a billionaire who was running for office and it

didn't happen to him before he was running for office something um god help us if that's happened

so my whole point in this is I do believe this is my assumption is that it's not just that they're

Trump derangement syndrome that they're after Donald Trump they're after America and our values

and what we are created for and those freedoms which we believe are given to us by our creator as

it's stated in our founding documents and that is what many are seeking to remove not just from

Donald Trump they don't just want to shut him up with um tying him up in court and taking his time

in resources they want to do it to all of us and that is something that is un-American and

something that we definitely shouldn't have and we're upset because they're trying to take about

2% of our money in taxes and not give us representation but this is obviously it's grown into

much more than that we need to be very aware of that but back to uh current tail of tape focusing

on our ran sorry I diverged for too long but this five-day process which Donald Trump is

um lightening up on some of these offensive operations hoping that we can reach an agreement

very soon over the next five days which by the time you hear this we should probably know

something a little bit more and hopefully that will be something that Washington will succeed in

these negotiations but uh we really do want to have trade resume as normal uh through the

Straits of Hormuz and that's uh that is something that we need to wait and see and not rush

to judgment or spread fear through the media or social media on you know what we think let's

allow this to this is the strategic picture that's going on right now and we're having a lot of

senior people come in and and we'll know more but if if an agreement cannot be reached and there

are still threats against uh ships transiting the Straits of Hormuz uh we're going to see probably more

offensive operations for how long uh is necessary and however long that can be sustained

before the 60-day period you know works out but but we'll see obviously America does

and I do want to reach some kind of a peace agreement um but all this fake news as far as

America being America losing this war and America not having the ammunition there's there's

certain rare earth minerals and materials that we are short on that can't we don't have an endless

supply I will say that but are are we what we say in the military winchester or out of ammunition

no and we're nowhere even close and that's going to be able to go on we have resources to have

large-scale wars for years and this false narrative that you know we're out of ammunition that's

that's again it's showing this information warfare and this bias so my uh final thing to

send this to your friends and family that need to know it let's wait till this end of this

five-day period and see what happens instead of rushing to a judgment and and spreading fear

and disinformation we always need to check the facts and not lean in on some bias or be an agent

of propaganda by saying something that we do not know is facts so always back check me and I

appreciate you tuning in we'll be back next week with another exciting episode of National Security

R so until then God bless our troops God bless you and God bless the United States of America