美军在霍尔木兹海峡以蓝水海军打棕水战

I think what you're mainly hoping for is some type of security agreement that allows for, uh, for passage of capabilities. You know, you've seen 34 different countries across, uh, across Europe and NATO to say, hey, look, once we get it to a point where there is, uh, no more attacks, are willing to work on some type of, uh, you know, varying system, some type of, uh, uh, support to be able to do that and get and get vehicles and vessels across the straits.

The problem is in doing that, obviously, Iran realizes now that they have a car that they haven't had in the past. And so I still think that this is something that in any time that I ran, feels that they've been wronged in some way. This is something that's going to continue to raise their head and go, hey, if we don't get what we want, this is a car that we are going to throw down and potentially play. The proxies play a huge part in this because it gives them some amount of of distance away from that.

And uh, and plausible deniability going, oh, it wasn't us. It wasn't something that we actually sanctioned. And so that makes it a very volatile situation. How much of a multiple front war is this on a Friday in August? Uh, it's it's fairly significant, right, because, uh, we are fighting a brown water fight with a blue water navy, uh, as well. Look at it in in the Strait of Hormuz. We have a lot of capabilities for a peer to peer adversary threat, But that's one of the reasons why the Navy's looking to try and build out some capacity.

Uh, with that mid-tier, you're seeing a lot of, you know, the undersea vessels and a lot of, uh, you know, I'm crude surface vessels. You're seeing a lot of, uh, play in this space to be able to do that, because you do have to address that. You do have to stay focused on what China is doing and a potential consideration for a 2027, uh, Taiwan scenario, something that you have to be able to look at for that. And Russia's still remains a player.

They still have a, uh, a fairly robust defense industrial base that continues to pump out capabilities and munitions. Uh, they've had to focus more on what exactly it is that they're doing. Right. So their space industry has taken some hits to make sure that their air defense and long range missile capacity continues to remain, as well as 8 million drones produced a year by Russia. Uh, I mean, these are significant numbers that are still out there.

So the U.S. military has to be able to provide for all of those. You can't just go after a hegemonic type fight and then leave an asymmetric capability on the floor as well. Wayne, uh, one of President Trump's, uh, objectives for this war was to, uh, get to the enriched uranium that Iran has. And I think the reporting is that it's buried under some mountain somewhere in Iran. Is there a military Solution there. I know we've had bombing campaigns in the past, but what's the current thinking?

Yeah. You know, I guarantee you that there are operational plans that are out there that address and say if these certain conditions are met, this is the type of capability that we will use to, uh, to create that, whether or not it's additional bunker buster, uh, you know, the massive ordnance penetrators, uh, the mop system that was used back in operation, uh, Midnight Hammer. They have these things lined up, and I guarantee you there's going to be a certain amount of, uh, throttling of capability that says if we do this certain amount, you look at collateral damage estimates and, uh, and say, if we do this, this would be a potential for civilian casualties.

This is our chances of success. They they they do this, that at nauseum. Right? They go through this and they working it over and over again to be able to create that scenario. But most of the time it ends up saying that the conditions have to be met for that. And right now with Iran, one of the biggest pieces on that is they've already shown that they're willing to kill their own people. So then when you start looking at even if I were to do this and I were to address the nuclear, uh, the nuclear material at Pickax Mountain and then say that we neutralized it, what exactly is that Rand going to do as a as a countermeasure, or is it going to be going after the 90 million, uh, innocent Iranians that are out there that just want this war to end?