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

It's the tip of the spare in the epic battle to defend the United States of America.

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

to undermine and destroy U.S. National Security.

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 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 and we've

actually had 10 and this is plus or minus. I'll say that are serious injuries and so that's how

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, you know, coming up on half a dozen. That's

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 day. So there's

different tactics that we can use and we won't get into all those of what exactly happened in this

situation that 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 manned aircraft. Now we're going

to talk about some losses in US equipment. These are, there's 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 they can

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 fire and that was non-combat-related temporary. In fact

did require withdrawing out of the immediate area of operation for some temporary withdrawals.

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

downing of a 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 in 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 those have been attritted 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 mineling 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 launcher sites their drone

manufacturing sites and their air defense and surface air 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 drone

capabilities as well as their aerospace capabilities as far as aircraft is pretty much been annihilated

they've had significant damage and infrastructure to their military bases their naval facilities

and some of their infant 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

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grow food not fear welcome back america this is your host Fred y'all we are picking back up where we

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 uh people and 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

you 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 on successfully right now

we've learned a lot of valuable lessons and uh 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 uh fed some 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 our 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

iran has trained who they've given equipment to and who you know they're paying

they're financing the these militias across the middle east to attack american forces and also

Israeli forces but we're talking today focused on the united states

uh except for this next bit which is how i ran is really choking out the world

in regards to the straits of war mues 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 uh go toe-to-toe with a superpower such as the united

states they realize that so there there's a communist tactic that's called impose cost and

communist communist don't use 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 uh attacks

and hitting longer range targets that's threatening um other nations inside europe and if it hits

assets like it has before with uh british assets and led to the death of french uh service member

this again is something that i think in the long run uh you know it may be just because of the egos

of some of these mullahs who who are now uh calling the shots but it's it's going to be devastating

as more and more um forces are aligned in some form or fashion to either restore the energy

distribution through the either the straits of hormones or in more challenging and unless

effective ways through pipelines but they're they're going to figure out ways to bypass

um our our 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 um you know we see the the use of longer-range missiles and the potential threat of those

missiles impacting uh military sites as far away as um 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'm i'm willing to you know wager that our adversaries are pure adversaries russia and china

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

in uh collecting information on where American assets are particularly uh 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 um be vigilant and our forces to um you know be outside of weapons

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

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

certain known assets that have the range to uh impact our our assets but we're constantly looking

to uh focus on the offensive fight will maintaining a defensive fight but but bottom line

and in all this is our real losses on both sides but the us losses they're very limited

uh Iranian losses they're very very heavy and i believe as now we've established dominance

in the airspace although there have been uh uh losses to our aircraft and they're likely continue

to be i believe uh 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 uh 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 i believe many will look at you know okay without congressional approval we have 60

days so i believe the us is going to continue to surge assets as much as we can to to dominate

tactically and reduce those strategic assets inside Iran but 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 uh Donald Trump has mentioned and hopefully

when this is uh listened 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 um on when

and if the streets of hormones 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 um 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 i ran 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 uh that is an unbelievable deal i

take that uh if if somebody said hey 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 i ran his

stated for decades as far as death to America death to Israel and uh 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 eminent 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 eminent threat that's what you want to provide some space and some ways out but

trying to say that that's that's our in-state that's what we're seeking before we take any action

that's that's absurd uh 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 you're as you're seeing these airports and this uh civilian targets attacked across the

middle east with Gulf state nations nobody wants that uh but we want this fighting to end and that's

exactly what uh the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general d'Ancane 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 to have free and fair trade and uh have access through

incredibly vital choke points such as the streets of war moves uh 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 uh 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 uh 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

in hotels these are not places that uh in the united Arab Emirates uh the Emirates are not

having weapons inside these airports uh that threaten Iran by any means uh 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

are not misnamed 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 uh 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 uh 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 roiders

there is a significant amount of change going on 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 uh 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 one and world war two 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 basis troops and energy assets that they truly do need

and that's why this really important focus there in the streets and horror movies is

at your point that it 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 have been eventually done i i do believe that and i do believe

that some people are looking at the probability in the long term of is our ran going to capitulate

and cooperate and um allow uh the trade and access through the streets of horror movies or do we

need to continue to expand our our focus on building a 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 uh the the Gulf so but don't go

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welcome back america this is your host right now when we're picking back up we're talking about what

many people have discussed and about ten 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's 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 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 mube 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-born 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

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

a force that's relatively light numerically and being a retired marine some people

you know laugh and mug out twenty five hundred 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 three thousand marines enough and

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

expeditionary strike group that has a twenty five hundred marines with the USS boxer

and in those they have a you know f thirty five which is the joint strike fighters in America's

new fifth generation aircraft uh both of these platforms uh bring that to bear that uh

no now you're actually having another squadron of aviation assets reinforcing what these

carrier-based uh aviation uh assets that can be launched from off the catapults of these

aircraft carriers well each of these amphibious ships has a road-rooing 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 five thousand marines and that's actually two

infantry battalions or just uh 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 fifty-eight

which went into the uh kandahar airfield and held that uh 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 of 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 a marine expedition brigade but that is a definite naval asset that can

be possibly utilized uh very near Iran um they're on the karg island to to shape some in and maybe

that's just uh the carrot and the stick putting pressure on Iran during these negotiations that now

we have all these assets and now we have uh five thousand Marines so we've up the anti and could we

send more Marines or could we send uh the 81st airborne division or the 101st I 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 uh instead of a brigade and one thing that we've seen recently with

how both in Venezuela and here in uh this conflict in Iran how we're using our naval assets we're

doing this limited scale strikes uh 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 um to me that is a campaign

promise that no forever wars is that we're not getting decisively engaged we want to uh shape

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

saw that for decades for uh 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 a illegal war and unnecessary wars

Hakeem Jeffrey says um well I guess that depends on you know which side of the table you're on 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 is saying is they don't want

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

detriment of um 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 uh 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

and that is something that the media should uh 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 I'm to kinetically launching missiles firing dropping bombs on

targets in our end or not actually boots on the ground in Iran officially not with any military

assets that we've reported but uh we're trying to force them to change uh this is it I mean when

you're murdering uh and this is like industrial-sized you know mass scale murdering of tens of

hours and that's that is unacceptable um 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

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 uh 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 um I mean that is just uh 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 um 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 I understand their point and

they get very emotional about it but uh you know before we started the large scale operations they

were talking about um they they felt that that was necessary and they also have stated uh 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 uh we'll talk on another show about you know what that

would look like and I do believe just uh uh 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 uh 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 Russian and China are doing

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

us now 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 house and senate and they just focus as they

always have on taking Donald Trump out and teaching 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

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 uh 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 uh 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 uh senior people come in and and we'll know more but if if an

agreement cannot be reached and there's still threats against uh ships transiting the Straits of

Hormuz uh we're going to see probably more uh 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 wind

gesture 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 in this information warfare in 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 fact check me and I appreciate you tuning in we'll be back next week with another

exciting episode of National Security Hour so until then God bless our troops God bless you

and God bless the United States of America