Guest: J. Michael Waller | Center for Security Policy
Key Timestamps:
- 00:32 — Intro: Operation Epic Fury and why it happened
- 01:36 — 47 years of Iranian terrorism against America
- 05:14 — Iran's assassination attempts on President Trump
- 09:01 — Iran's apocalyptic ideology and why negotiations always failed
- 10:06 — The real end goal of Operation Epic Fury
- 11:43 — USAID, beltway bandits, and the forever-war industrial complex
- 18:07 — Who could lead Iran next? Crown Prince Pahlavi, the MEK, and the IRGC remnants
- 26:33 — Iran's reach into our own hemisphere: Venezuela, Hezbollah on the southern border
- 29:12 — Why troops may enter Iran briefly — and why that's NOT a forever war
- 31:17 — The War Powers Act and Trump's constitutional authority
- 38:15 — Trump offers amnesty; Revolutionary Guard officers flooding in with surrender calls
- 39:35 — Hezbollah, the Houthis, and what comes next for Iran's proxies
- 41:07 — Arab nations and Israel united — an unprecedented regional alignment
- 44:42 — The biggest misunderstanding: "We're just doing Israel's bidding"
- 48:26 — What every American should do right now
- 52:09 — Action item: Use AI to compare critics' talking points to our enemies' rhetoric
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