Pentagon Fast Tracks Iran War Ground Option /Lt Col Daniel Davis

Oh, I think we won. We've knocked out the Navy, their Air Force. We've knocked out their

anti aircraft. We've knocked out everything we're roaming free from a military standpoint.

All they're doing is plugging up the straight, but from a military standpoint, they're finished.

So how much longer? That was President Trump minutes ago declaring that, hey, we don't

need to worry about this. All these shows we've been doing apparently don't even need them.

The war is basically finished. They're done. They're washed up.

The war is soon going to be open. Therefore, so will the straight, the war moves the

all-price week. There's no truth to any of that, folks. President Trump, as I don't know,

I don't know what kind of game he's playing. I don't know if he thinks everybody's stupid and

we're going to believe stuff like this. But I mean, these truth socials, he puts out these kinds

of statements. He's just saying what he wants to believe and what he wants to be true.

There is almost no relation to actual truth that's involved with that. And he knows it.

And the way we know he's trying to fool us into thinking everything's fine to call

him the market's whatever he thinks he's trying to accomplish here. The facts underneath

are really telling. His actions, according to his orders, is what matter. We literally have

breaking news just before this. CBS News is now reporting that the 82nd Airborne Division

is now on deployment orders for the Middle East. Planning evolves the Army's global response

force in two Marine Expeditionary Force units. This is on top of what we were telling you earlier

today that there is the USS Boxer. That's the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit. That's on top

of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit with the USS Tripoli that was already steaming in that

direction. Apache helicopters have been ordered to join the fight. A-10 Warthogs have been sent.

Actually, we're already on location and apparently are active trying to hit some of these

shore batteries that are keeping the straight-of-war moves under threat. All of those things,

folks, have everything to do with a ground operation. So you've got a lot of Marines. Now you've

got an Army quick reaction division could be potentially aerosol dead air lifted. Who knows how

it can there's an any number of ways you can get in there. But those are infantrymen. Those are

designed for one thing to take on some sort of ground operation. Now that's on top of what

President Trump, sorry about that, what's on Trump? President Trump yesterday, though,

trying to calm again people by saying, hey, you know what, I have no plans to send any troops to

Iran. But if I were, I wouldn't tell you. Well, I mean, I think it's pretty obvious by now,

the actions say the opposite. That's exactly what he's planning to do. And listen, this just

underscores another evidence and another piece of data that is showing us that this has not been

wired tight from the beginning. We clearly thought when this thing started that, you know,

kind of a shock in all would topple the government that they were weak, that assassinating the

senior leader, which the Israeli intelligence apparently provided and said, yep, we've got

him in our sights. We know where he's going to be. We can kill him. This thing could be over before

it even starts. That would only be something you would believe if you had surrounded yourself,

only with a bunch of yes men, people are telling you what you want to hear because anyone who has

known the region who understands the country of Iran, understands the people of Iran, understands

their history, understands what they have suffered, the very nature of their regime and the nature

of the religion would be able to tell you that that's not going to knock them out. There is a

system. It's not like, it's not like, say Saddam Hussein or even more Mark Qaddafi that was more

around the cult of personality. You get one guy out and there was some reasonable projection that

you could actually have that kind of a collapse. And in fact, we did see that once Saddam Hussein

fled, once Qaddafi died in the Libya or left, then the whole thing just collapsed. There was a lot

of things that are different with that. But none of those things are different or none of those things

are present that allow that in the country of Iran, completely different situation than yet,

that seems to be what President Trump thought. Now, remember, even before that thing started

on the 28th of February, in January, we were just about on the cusp and he gave every signal

that we were about ready to attack. And then, no, they decided the last minute we need actually

more air power. So they bring in another aircraft carrier strike group. And then once that got

on site, then they're ready to go and they said, no, actually, we need a little bit more air

defense. And we need to send that to some of our regions. So that was delayed again, meaning that

you haven't thought any of this through. Now, then here we have days into this. You had the

triply being sent. And then apparently they thought, no, we actually need a little bit more than

that. Now then, there's the USS boxer. And now then, there's the 82nd Airborne Division,

the 82nd, you may recall, we talked about how they had canceled an operation that they had

an exercise. And that's after this war had started, which shows that no one was even thinking

about the ground force with the US ground forces with the 82nd Airborne. They were going on doing

something else. Now, it's another thing just flying by the CD of your pants. So if I have a lot

of problems with what the President of the United States is doing, I've also got a lot of

problem with the Pentagon, because there was some reports out before the war started that

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had alerted and said that there was a lot of problems that

could happen. There was a leaked intelligence report that said that they're, that they warned

about so many of the things that are happening ahead of time. So some people definitely knew.

But if you're the chief advisor, military advisor for the President, and if you're the Secretary

of Defense, and it's your job to have contingencies and have them resourced, then you should have

been having all these people on alert already. They should have already been prepared to deploy

instead of figuring it out on the fly after they're needed, because I'm telling you, military

operations don't work when they're not wired typed. And when you're talking about you don't have

the resources, you don't have the planning, you don't have the logistics pop line, but prepped

up ahead of time, all those things are necessary to have success. And of course, that also goes into

the planning, because you do rehearsals, you do iteration after iteration of war gaming.

This doesn't work. That doesn't work. Well, let's change this. Let's do that. You do all that

on a board or in a computer simulation to give you an idea. So you don't make mistakes on the ground.

But we didn't do that. We didn't take the time or we didn't do the effort. I don't know. So now,

instead of doing all those war gaming things on a computer and say, well, that didn't work. Let's

try this and let's do that. We're doing it on the fly. And so you can't move people on a computer,

you just hit reset and try it again. But in a real war like this, people are already dead.

People are hundreds of people. Americans are already wounded. This was like four or five days old

that there were 200 had been reported that were wounded. Who knows what the number is today.

But that's what we know so far. And now we're trying to figure all this stuff out on the fly.

Even the USS Boxer here, it'll probably take another week to 10 days before it can arrive on location

if it's at full steam ahead. And of course, then you get there. That means you wouldn't have

any time to prepare, any time to get your bearing set, do rehearsals, any of that kind of step,

you might have to go straight into operation or you continue to wait. But let's continue on with

why I say it looks like all of the evidence looks like we are actually getting ready to go in.

This was this was reported in the in axioms today.

That Trump is the target of this operation may be Carg Island. We've talked about this several

times, but there's some additional information now. Taking Carg Island would only be launched after

the US military further degrades Iran's military capacity around the Strait of Hormuz.

According to this person with knowledge of the White House, we need about a month to weaken

the Iranians more with strikes, take the island and then get them by the balls and use it for

negotiations. Okay, that is really problematic. If you really believe that and by all accounts,

it seems like we do, then you're thinking, okay, this is this is some of the same thinking that

went into the the launch of the war in the first place. We think that their member Jack Keen was

famous at saying this. Gary, we had that soundbite from I think it was January from Jack Keen. It was

talking about the how weak the government was going to be. Is that something you have handy?

If you don't, don't worry about it. Okay, we'll just go on that. But that's what he was saying

then. And that clearly, not just him saying that clearly what was believed within the government,

they would they were weak and all he had to do is just push him a little nightfall down. Well,

that obviously didn't work. Now it appears that that same mentality is it play on the ground,

thinking that well, if we there's there's still a week that if we just take the cargo island,

that's going to push him over the edge. And to support that that theory that I have,

here is President Trump saying exactly that. They don't know what's happening. The Navy's gone,

Air Force is gone. Their anti-aircraft is all gone, soil gone. Their radar is all gone.

Their leaders are all gone. The next set of leaders are all gone. And the next set of leaders are

mostly gone. And now nobody wants to be a leader over there anymore. We're having a hard time. We

want to talk to them and there's nobody to talk to. He's talking like literally like they're

just wobbling and he's got to push him a little bit further, which was shown to be untrue the

first time you did it. Now they're striking targets left and right all over the place. And even though

they they did go down quite a bit, like 90% drop after the first week or so, it is now,

I showed you that chart yesterday, they're starting to trend back up. So clearly showing they are

not that weak. But yet one wonders who is surrounding the president, who's talking to him and

telling him all these things. Because you can see he's talking like, no, I really believe that.

Well, I don't know if this guy is closer, I mean, not that it certainly seems to be part of

the thinking. Victor Davis Hanson went on Fox News to explain why actually a ground operation,

it's not that crazy. When you start to see tactical aircraft like warthogs and Apache,

that means that they're offering almost ground and sea support to to hit targets. There's nothing,

there's no defense at all. When you have that type of aircraft, a flying at will and an

Iranian airspace. So you put it all together. And I think it's pretty clear that

this RoboDope strategy that they have that we're going to tire before they are is depended on

just public opinion, the midterms in the United States. And Trump sees it through. And I think

he will. I think they're going to fall pretty soon. All of it. That's the music and Trump's

ears. They're going to fall pretty soon. That's exactly what he thinks. That's exactly what he

wants to be true. And so here's Victor Davis Hanson, who's portrayed as this military expert.

And he's talking about all these these things. Oh, they're weak here. They're weak there. And

you know, we've got 18 warthogs and all this like, again, if we're talking about a battle,

then the 18 warthogs can be very decisive. I myself used to work with 18 warthogs when I was

on active duty. When I was in the second US cavalry, I was a fire sport officer in the second US

cavalry and eagle troop. And one of my responsibilities was to vector a 18 warthogs on the ground,

because they're the best friend of ground troops. There was a lot of eight tens that were used in

desert storm. A lot of them were used during some of the exercises I was in when I was with the

tactical unit in Germany, a bunch of years ago back in the 1990s. And yeah, they're great in

a tactical operation here. We're talking about a country, though. And as I've shown you several

times on that map, you're talking hundreds plural, like nearly eight, 900 miles of shoreline

in a straight line distance that covers the entire gauntlet of death if the Iranians can bring it.

And of course, it's not just a shoreline, but it's virtually the entirety of the country that

goes back to the east, because they have all the long-range missiles, medium-range missiles,

short-range missiles. They have drones, if nearly every category that you can imagine.

Obviously, they have torpedoes, they have submarines, they have drone boats, they have speedboats,

most of which have not even been brought to bear yet. So there are so many things that are still

capable. And yes, the eight tens may have been taken out some boats. They may have been taken out

some shore batteries. It's a country. Again, 800 miles miles. You're talking about eight tens.

They can be going on and hit point targets. And whatever they may have destroyed,

we is, I mean, it's so small that if I showed you on the map, it'd be a literal dot, a pin,

pinhead dot. That's it. So you can't saturate that 800 miles

with eight tens and destroy everything there. First of all, you have to know where they are.

And there's certainly not going to make it easy for you to do that. And then secondly,

even aside from that, as I said, you've got hundreds more miles back into open country.

It's an impossible task. And he's talking like it's an easy thing. Now, the fact that you have

the 18 war hogs and Apache gunships, now 82nd airborne, the Marine Corps fighters in there,

that tells you that there probably is something. And I think that that cargyle and

is the most likely target, because I'm not sure what else you could hit. There is a couple of

islands in the horse you've been there of the of the straight of Hormuz. You could

physically or theoretically go take them. I mean, we do have the ability to air and

cert those things in there. But towards what end? What are you going to accomplish? Now,

you heard what what Victor Davis hands in there. And somehow the possession of car will put

pressure on the government. It's going to fall. Or according to what the Axios reported there,

well, that'll get them by the balls, as we say, and then make them negotiate away. But is that a good

is that a good prospect? Do we really think that the Iranians are going to do that? Because

that is implying again that you think that they're just wobbling and teeter on the edge,

and they're going to fall. Now, one person who is now, I think, starting to get it, and that is,

I'm not going to believe this, Benjamin Netton Yahoo. Fact number one, Israel acted alone against

the Sloughia gas compound. Fact number two, President Trump asked us to hold off on future

attacks, and we're holding out. What do we see? What happens if the, are there any signs that the

Iranian regime is cracking? A lot of signs. A lot of signs, I wish I could divulge all of them,

but I see that. But will I tell you, will I commit right now that it's going to collapse?

I can tell you that we're working to create the conditions for it to collapse. But it may survive,

it may not. If it survives, it'll be a lot weaker. Okay, let me just kind of interpret Netton Yahoo

ease for you right there. The fact that he's not coming out, you know, all guns are blazing,

and yeah, we're going to crush them, and we're going to destroy them, and they don't have any

chances. So when he's saying, you know, we're, we've hit him hard, but can I tell you we're going

to destroy him? Maybe not. Maybe we won't get him. That is a huge change for him. That is a huge

admission. And he's recognizing this thing is going to go on for a while, because unlike people

on our side, he does recognize that he does know the history of Iran. He knows it intimately.

He may hate them, and he may have made a lot of foolish decisions hoping that he could make something

work. And he obviously tried to rope us in and successfully rope us in to be the, an extension

of the IDF for him. But now, even he sees that this is not working. We had to try and to

assassinate the leader and succeed it. So we cut off the head of the octopus, so to speak. Oh,

snap. They replaced the head of the octopus. Oh, well, then we killed Ali Laryjani, and then we

killed it like 40 other leaders and lo and behold, all of them had been replaced as well.

And now some that even more hard learn than the ones they had Ali Laryjani, I think we're going

to come to really regret that we took him out. We're probably going to regret that we took out

the Ayatollah Hamani, because he was a very moderate voice. He had been the one, no one will

admit this in mainstream American, but the the evidence is out there now. Video evidence is out

there that he has been telling his people, we're not going to make these ICBM range long

range missiles that could reach the United States. He said, that's not what we need. We just need

to defend ourselves. This nonsense that like Jack Keen and several of these other Lindsey Graham

are claiming that, oh, they were they were going to make ICBMs and not long after they'd be coming

after us. That is completely refuted by the physical evidence that they don't have any and have

any in 47 years. And by the video of the Ayatollah himself to his generals years ago,

telling them, we're not going to make that class and they haven't. They were going to make it

folks. They would have already done that because they were interested in national defense.

But now that you see he's gone. That moderating voice is gone. And as we've told you several times,

who knows what's going to happen now with the non-moderate now with his son who's lost his father,

his mother, his wife, at least one of his children, the niece that have been killed by US and

Israeli bombs, probably not the God that's going to be the most it can to say, you know what,

let's just let bygones be bygones. So he's now in charge. We'll see what that ends up

relating to, especially as it concerns with nuclear weapons. We'll leave that one aside for another

time. Right now, we're focused on what's going to happen in this ground operation here. Now, if

President Trump and those close to him seem oblivious to the military realities of it, everybody's

not that way. And here's Nicholas Burns talking to Christian Amin Pore saying, well, he doesn't

really think that there's going to be a ground invasion because it's so crazy. Even Trump wouldn't

think of that. Now, you have this situation where there's a world energy crisis. And it really is

a global energy crisis, 20% of the oil and gas in the world comes out of the straight-up

hormones. And that's critical for the Japanese, the South Koreans, the Chinese, and the global

economy. And you have here in London, up and paying attention to this, you have oil prices,

gas prices, tripling in Europe, and oil prices rising. So it's a full-blown crisis. And,

you know, when you start a war, beware the unintended consequences of your action.

Do you see any off-ramp? I think there has to be an off-ramp. I can't believe that the United

States would choose to put ground troops into the quicksand of the Middle East, you and I,

have known each other a long time. We remember 2003 and 2004 and 2005 in Iraq. We remember

the good intentions in Afghanistan, the world community supporting us. We were caught for 20

years. So I don't think that's an option. I think it would have been more accurate for him to say,

I know, I hope that's not an option. All right, I don't think that should be an option.

But it's very clear that it is an option. Let me tell you, you don't send the 82nd airborne

anywhere as a pressure devices. Those days are, oh, it's over. This is now a full-scale war.

Anybody who thinks, well, Trump's probably just putting pressure on them to scare them into

doing something, to scare them into opening the, they're not going to work anymore. You've

already killed all these leaders. You've blown up all kinds of stuff. You've hit their oil

infrastructure. There's no more scaring. There wasn't before. As obviously that didn't work.

So if we're sending troops there, folks, it's because they want to use them. And when you're talking

all of the kind of, it's always important to see what's it. If you're just sending a message,

you can send somebody from the 82nd or a Marine Corps, whatever. You can send just some troops

to show the flag and scare somebody you can try to or whatever. But when you see the kind of

facilities that we have, there's medical support is in route. Of course, we have a lot of that

because we've already needed it with the 200 wounded in action we've already had. But you see

helicopters. You see ground attack, close air support, ATIN, award hog fighter jets.

When you see the 82nd airborne with the light fighters, and then you see the Marine Corps,

and with along with their force entry facilities. And of course, they're training to take on

in the littoral areas. Those are all specific items to take something. So I think that the

Carg Island is the most likely target. I think it's foolhardy. And by the way, I have heard from

some folks in the region. And they do say, I've got some connections in there that say that, yes,

there is the action. There is the planning. There are the resources that we're getting ready to do

something. Now, like any military operation until the execution order is given, anything can be

called off. So we'll see. I pray to God that this gets called off because if this doesn't get

called off, we have a blood bath on our hands. And this will make our position. If President

Trump tries this, and whether it succeeds or whether it fails, it is going to harm the United States.

Let me explain to you why. If you go in, let's look, first of all, if you succeed, you're going

to do it at great cost. There's no chance that you can get an operation of this kind that's

going to be defended that everybody on God's earth knows is coming. And everybody knows there's

only a couple of targets you might can can use anything else wouldn't make any sense. So they know

that there's, you know, the probability is that it's going to be Carg Island. And there's only

a couple of other places. So that means all of these potential places will be heavily defended.

Carg Island being the most. If that's what you attempt and you succeed, you're going to suffer a

lot of casualties in the process. And then what is that going to open up the straight of Hormuz?

Is that going to cause the government to say, dang it, now forget it, didn't work. I guess we

better open the straight because they have Carg Island. There are alternatives for the oil. But as

as we had the Neema on from a dialogue works earlier today, it's seen from Professor Miranda

from the Tehran University. There are all kinds of people saying the Iranian people are locked

into this. They have history. They suffered for eight long years during the Iran Iraq war.

They know what suffering is. They're willing to suffer and lose hundreds of thousands of people

in a war. Neema specifically told us the understanding of the conversation inside the media within

Iran is that they're saying this is going to be alone. They said, just get in your mind. We're

talking years here. So they're already harkening back to the eight year Iran Iraq war.

Their mentality is that already any kind of you have in a war. And certainly that happened in

the Iran Iraq where there were setbacks all over the place. There's losses and there's gains,

et cetera. They're not paying that much attention to anything that happens air go. If you take

successfully Carg Island, they're not going to change anything. It's okay, you've taken that. And

now what the course they'll do like any country that the war would do is that now we're going to

do it. We can't take it back. It's probably not unlike what happened with the United, I'm sorry,

when Ukraine had that incursion into the Corsk area of Russia made a big splash at first and they

had this big incursion. You know, this big bulls they knocked in there. And I said at the time that

when the day it happened, it's only a matter of time until Russia reduces this and takes it out.

It took them a matter of time, took them eight months, but they finally did it at profound cost

to the Ukrainian side. They accomplished nothing except for the loss of their troops and an eight

months squandered. Same thing happened at a place called Khrinky on the Denepper River where the

Ukrainians again, they crossed over and they had a beachhead and a lot of people in the west said,

oh, this is this is important. This is big. They have a beachhead on the Russian side of the

Dipper. Now they're going to and I said, look at the military fundamentals. There's no way this is

going to go anywhere. It's going to be a complete disaster and it was. And after some number of

months, people in the west quit paying attention to it because it didn't succeed. The Ukraine side

went back to their side and the river looked no different than it did before except for now,

thousands of Ukrainian people were dead. Same thing is likely here. Even if you successfully

take Carg Island, they will reduce it. They'll put all their firepower on there with drones,

artillery, rockets, missiles, short range missiles. And who knows what? Maybe they even try some kind

of a ground incursion. I don't know what they would do, but I can guarantee you they will continue

to pour fire at and just make your life miserable. How are you going to reinforce yourself?

What about the Americans that get wounded on there? How are you going to get them metavact out?

You're going to bring in medical helicopters every single one of them coming in and going out is

going to be under fire. And what if you have a metavact helicopter that goes down trying to bring

somebody in? Now you've lost that crew and the person who was supposed to help is probably going to die.

You see what I'm saying here? How are you going to keep them supporting? And for what reason?

This is just as pointless militarily as the Ukraine side going into Russia with Kursk or the Ukraine side

going and trying to cross the Dineper River. It's not going to gain you anything. That's if it goes

well, but it may also utterly fail. If we try to take the island and don't succeed, because again,

you're not going to send the triply or the boxer or it's escorts up to the straight or

hormones and think that they're going to make a ground operation and they're going to use those

that force landing beach capabilities that they have. You're never going to get there. They'll

have been attacked long before they get there. So then the only thing that makes any sense is you'll

try a helicopter operation or the tilt rotor aircraft that the Marine Corps has and you're probably

going to lose some of those. But what if you lose all of them? What if you can't get a beach head?

What if you can't get something on there that they have some ground source when President Trump said

that they utterly destroyed every military side on cargo? No truth to that whatsoever. I even showed

you the video. Most of it looked like a couple of spots just kind of blowing up out in the middle

desert somewhere, a bunch of shrub brush. They harm some things. I'm sure we have pretty good

targeting capabilities and intelligence. I'm sure they actually hit some sites that matter.

But at some, but there's 10,000 people that live there. I'm pretty sure you didn't get all the

military people there or all the facilities. No doubt some of those were also underground.

So you have damaged it a little bit, but it's not harmed it. So they could have effects on the

ground that can have effects in the air. And if it fails, if we don't even get the beach head,

folks, that is going to even more deeply undercut the aura of invincibility that has permeated

really since the end of the Cold War that the United States meant. Yeah, the all Afghanistan thing

and the Iraq thing they were dumb, but the military never failed. It wasn't a military failure.

It was a political failure in their nation building. They're trying to use the military to do

things that can't do. A lot of people convince themselves of that, but the military itself

is the most amazing military force in the world. Well, that's going to be start to shred

if you can't even take an island here. And then if you again, back to the success, if you did,

but you can't hold it, then that is going to shed even more negative light on the intelligence

of our senior leaders. They're going to say, why would you attempt something like that that was

so pointless to even attempt? And then you failed at it as well. This could start to really erode

people's recognition process. This could change the calculation for these regimes in the Arab

governments in the region, our allies, because they may say, hang on a second. Being friends with the

United States, that's not such a good deal. That got us a lot of missiles and a lot of our facilities

attacked. They're they're air defense. It couldn't support us. And now that I see that can't even

take an island that can't succeed here. That can't force open the straight of hormones.

What is what is South Korea going to think? They're going to think, can these guys help us if

North Korea does something? Taiwan. Can these guys who can't even beat little Iran and technologically

backwards Iran, they can't even subdue them. And we think that they're going to come to our aid against

China. You see where this is going, right? All of these things are at play here. They're all

exposed because we're being so foolish of trying to go down a path here. And listen, Sean Bell

from Sky News is also looking at this realistically. He doesn't have the you know the issue that many

in America have been trying to be nice to Trump. Or so he's just going to say, hey, here's the deal

and there are some cards to play for Iran. You know Iran still has some aces to play. It's still got

the leadership. It may be different, but it's version 2.0 and it looks even more hard line and

therefore potentially more dangerous. It's got at least 70,000 Shahi drones still locked away.

It's still got the proxies that are available to operate around the world and it's still got the

ability to put its foot on the throat of the Straits of all moves. It seems to me that Iran is much

more in control of this than Donald Trump is. And I think that's why we're seeing some of these

reactions. That's our best ally folks. He says and you know he's been really pro the United States.

He's been really pro NATO pro European, especially as it relates to Russia, you know during this

whole war here. And for him you saw it even. He didn't even want to say it, but he said you know

it looks to me like the Iranians with all this fire we've been putting on top of all. He's saying

it looks to me like they're calling the shots here. They're the ones that are in control. That's

despite what I showed you President Trump said just moments before we came on air here. They're

all but defeated. That's not the case. And Sean Bell believed me if there was anything positive

for him to say he definitely would have said it. And then we have the Iranian side. The foreign

the foreign ministry spokesperson for the Iranian side was asked specifically also in a Sky News

interview. What if the US comes in on the ground? Can you hand stand up to that? Do you think we're

getting closer to that moment where American boots are put on the ground in Iran? And is your

country preparing for that possibility? I'm sure our armed forces are prepared for every scenario.

You see what happened the first day? Including invasion. You see we do not welcome invasion,

we do not welcome war. But we have shown that what we are prepared for every scenario because

this is our homeland. This is our homeland and we are patriotic people. We know that they are

not right. We are rightful defender of Iran. So we don't care what it takes for us to defend

our homeland with all we have. And you see that statement every Iranian person that we have

shown you or that I've talked to says the same thing. We don't care what it cost us. We don't

care what the price is or how long it'll take. We will defend ourselves. 90 million people

terrain that absolutely in every way shape or form supports the defender. The cost for us to

try to go against these military realities is just staggering and that we're trying to do it with

this tiny little force of a few lot infantrymen from the 82nd Airborne or a few thousand Marines

that likely won't have access to their ships and their support that go along with that because

there's too many hundreds of miles of enemy territory they'd have to drive through which is like

a shooting gallery that there's no way that they can do that. There's almost certain that they

would take fire and may even be sunk. If we keep trying all these things that are foolish and have

small capabilities and small chances of success all we're going to do is continue to undermine

confidence that people have in us. Understand the reason why the dollar is the international currency,

the international currency and it has been for decades is because the belief the trust that

America is an economic and military power that's stable that's wise it's going to take decisions that

if you're on our side if you're our friend you benefit from it. When that trust starts to evaporate

and it's already wobbling and people say I don't trust you anymore. I don't regard you as stable

and now then it's not even looking like you're that powerful as it turns out. By exposing some of

this stuff we even put our our economic future and stability at risk because when those dollars

when those that financial currency starts going someplace besides dollars as they look for a

safer place to put their money and believe me with bricks there's plenty of other alternatives

that are starting to look really attractive about now we could undermine ourselves more than just

in the straight of hormones. Listen folks the clock is ticking here's one of them right here

price of oil there's some of the futures that are already showing that this this could go by April

up to 150 hundred and seventy dollars in some estimates I've seen. That's where we are right now

but there's every reason to think that that thing is going to keep ticking up we've been able to

keep it just under hundred dollars for a number for a better part of more than a week now

but it's not going down and the minute that you try something like this and it fails

you go on the ground and it fails we're just going to be a real problem and listen there's one last

thing I need to point out here I said something about it before but I don't want to leave without

pointing this out too there is no American national security issue at stake here to send American

ground troops benefits one nation and one nation only and that is Benjamin Netanyahu I'll show

you yesterday he said yeah well you can't win this from the air alone you remember that we can't

win this from the air alone there has to be a ground component was the words that he used

and lo and behold now all the evidence shows that it looks like it's going to be president Donald

Jay Trump that's going to take your sons and your daughters and the people who volunteer to serve

our country and to put them into a hornet's nest and to try to ask them to accomplish something

that's militarily unsound and unwise and then for sure if it's attempted some will die and it

will serve our country no benefit at all president Trump said I didn't do this because of what

the Israeli said the Israeli leader said oh I didn't talk Trump into anything well if president

Trump does this something that is against our own national interest and the leader of Israel

expressly called for yesterday then you have all the proof that you need they'll try to spend

things left and right but folks don't forget this moment Netanyahu said we have to have a ground

component there's no need for us to have when that's not going to get the straight open but if we do

it anyway whose whose behalf of that on who will American service members have been sacrificed

just to serve and it won't even matter it won't help anything it won't even help Benjamin Netanyahu

but if you want to do that so much Mr Prime Minister if you think that's something it's necessary

send your troops in send the audience to pull them out of South Lebanon put them on a boat

that do what it put them in a helicopter whatever you want to do transport aircraft you send them

into Iran you think that's that important there should only be IDF soldiers that go on this mission

there should not be one American on it not one that's what I want to see if this is truly something

Netanyahu believes in it should be led by IDF soldiers not one American so if there's not any

IDF soldiers and if it's only American then you have your truth right there my friend you know

where this is really going and who's really calling the shots thank you very much folks appreciate

you today we're going to keep on top of all this believe me every information we get any information

from downrange any of these disparate sources that we track on a daily basis we will bring you and

keep you updated on anything it's happening so you will know with unintimidated and uncompromised

sincerity what has happened in the world around you thanks we'll see you on the next episode

of Daniel Davis deep dive

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