There Are TWO Wars Being Fought in Iran!

[00:00] A concept of two things can be true at

[00:02] once. We want this audience to be as

[00:04] educated as possible. We want you to

[00:06] have sophisticated thoughts, nuanced

[00:08] thoughts. Life is not black and white.

[00:11] And the two things at once idea I want

[00:14] everyone to keep in their mind is this

[00:17] image 587. This is reporting from the

[00:20] economist. Hat tip to Kane from Citizen

[00:22] Free Press for flagging this for me. The

[00:25] Iran war has been a stunning aerial

[00:29] success.

[00:30] This is the economist. This is, you

[00:32] know, this is not state media. This is

[00:34] the economist and this is without doubt

[00:37] true. But the subhead is also true. Even

[00:41] if at the political level its direction

[00:44] is a mess. Now

[00:47] listen, I was an early critic, as was

[00:51] Blake, that this war had not been sold

[00:53] to the American public sufficiently. I

[00:55] believe that to be the case.

[00:57] I will also give them credit. In the

[01:00] days that have ensued since the initial

[01:03] strikes, they've done a better job of

[01:05] explaining the why and the why now.

[01:09] But so two things can be true at once.

[01:12] Our military is second to none. When

[01:14] President Trump lods the military, when

[01:17] Secretary of War Pete Hegsath explains

[01:20] just how lethal and precise and

[01:22] incredible they are, all those things

[01:24] are true. Our military men and women are

[01:26] the best in the world. And our aerial

[01:30] assault has proven to be the best in the

[01:32] world. And look at what we did in

[01:34] Venezuela. Absolutely true. But some of

[01:36] you have been upset with us in our take

[01:39] because we haven't been sufficiently

[01:42] I guess enthusiastic.

[01:44] But I want to bring your attention and

[01:46] Blake actually before I get there why

[01:48] don't you explain why don't you say what

[01:49] you were going to say?

[01:49] >> Well I'm just I think what we are seeing

[01:52] is there's kind of two wars. There's the

[01:54] literal air war over Iran and there's

[01:56] the airwaves war. There's the war over

[01:58] public opinion. Every war goes that way.

[02:00] And it's a little different from

[02:02] conflicts you've had in the past where

[02:05] if you know if you want to use an

[02:06] obvious example, World War II. World War

[02:08] II starts with 100% popular support for

[02:11] the war because the Japanese bombed us

[02:13] at Pearl Harbor. Everyone is on board

[02:15] and it would only go down from there if

[02:17] there, you know, were a lot of setbacks

[02:19] and went on.

[02:19] >> Saw this after 911.

[02:20] >> You saw this after 911. Afghanistan 95%

[02:23] support for that war. Goes down from

[02:25] there. Iraq probably 65 70% support for

[02:28] that war when it began goes down from

[02:30] there. This is different where we seem

[02:33] to be starting with at best 50/50 maybe

[02:37] less support and the plan is that they

[02:39] can sell it through how successful it

[02:41] is.

[02:42] >> And by the way I do want to say this

[02:44] could end up proving and I said this

[02:46] yesterday to be the absolutely right

[02:49] geopolitical national security

[02:51] >> 100%. They have information we don't.

[02:53] >> Yes. And you would be a fool not to see

[02:56] the potential upside of controlling the

[02:58] straight of Hormuz of getting rid of a

[03:01] malignant actor in a ter the number one

[03:03] state sponsor of terrorism in the Middle

[03:05] East. There's thousand upsides to this.

[03:07] >> Trump can say you're never going to be

[03:08] hearing about Iran like you've been

[03:10] hearing from them for the past 45 years

[03:12] ever again.

[03:12] >> Yes,

[03:13] >> that's a good thing. But we have an

[03:15] obligation to make this point because

[03:17] some people are saying people are saying

[03:20] actually the base is super united behind

[03:22] this like they're fine on that. And we

[03:24] had students on the show yesterday and

[03:27] we just we wanted to ask them. We said

[03:29] be honest with us. What is the attitude

[03:31] like on campus about what has just

[03:35] happened? And they answered us

[03:37] >> and we told them not not to be

[03:39] completely honest with us. And they

[03:41] were. And there's two clips here that I

[03:43] want to make sure we highlight. And

[03:44] Blake, you can call the first one if you

[03:45] want.

[03:46] >> Yeah. And this was, I believe this was

[03:47] asking a chapter leader at Appalachian

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[04:29] Yep. A lot of Trump voters. 592.

[04:32] So, I want to start off by asking you

[04:34] guys to give us the vibe on campus of

[04:37] this this uh the strikes against Iran.

[04:39] What's the vibe? What are people saying?

[04:42] Let's go ahead and start with

[04:43] >> Be honest with us. Be honest. Bad. Tell

[04:44] us. We want to know.

[04:46] >> We want the unvarnished truth. Brooke,

[04:48] you first.

[04:49] >> Yeah. I think at my campus especially,

[04:52] um, people are very upset with the

[04:55] United States and and their involvement.

[04:58] I think that a lot of direction is

[05:01] pointed at Israel and um questioning our

[05:04] allies and and the motives um in that

[05:07] way.

[05:08] and Megan.

[05:10] >> Uh, yeah, I definitely agree that's the

[05:14] same vibe that we're having on campus.

[05:17] Um, and I think more people uh don't

[05:20] want to see another war.

[05:24] >> All right. So, that was we we thought

[05:26] maybe that was just a broad segment, but

[05:29] then we asked a follow-up question. 593

[05:32] copy. So, are you seeing protests? Are

[05:34] you seeing are people gathering in the

[05:36] in the square in the quad? What kind of

[05:39] activities are you seeing this manifest

[05:41] in?

[05:43] >> I'm mostly seeing things uh through

[05:45] online platforms, people on um Instagram

[05:49] or or Twitter just, you know, really

[05:52] going in at um President Trump and and

[05:55] being upset that, you know, gas prices

[05:58] might go up and um forever war. like

[06:01] people really really do not want boots

[06:02] on the ground in this uh circumstance.

[06:04] >> Are you seeing that even from people

[06:06] that you know voted for Trump in 2024 or

[06:09] is it more is it still mostly from

[06:12] people you know would be leftwing

[06:13] regardless or

[06:15] >> I think the idea of starting a new

[06:17] foreign war is really even for Trump

[06:20] voters really um deterring people from

[06:23] wanting to align with the administration

[06:25] and their actions.

[06:29] That should be a flashing red light to

[06:31] everybody that supports President Trump,

[06:33] which we completely support President

[06:35] Trump. I mean, candidly, where I'm at,

[06:38] Democrats are completely unacceptable in

[06:40] any way, shape, or form.

[06:42] >> The entire reason this matters is you do

[06:44] not want to alienate the voters who are

[06:47] who did vote this last year or two years

[06:49] ago to

[06:51] >> get the illegals out, to secure the

[06:52] border, to put America first. And all of

[06:55] those things matter more than ever. The

[06:57] left has gone more insane than ever on

[06:59] issue after issue.

[07:00] >> And mark my words, they are going to try

[07:03] and impeach this president if they get

[07:05] the house. They will impeach him.

[07:08] >> And that's where we're going for in the

[07:10] second half of this hour. And you can be

[07:12] upset with me for telling you the truth,

[07:15] but

[07:16] I know this to be a fact. Put it that

[07:19] way. That they are going to use

[07:21] different, let's call them controversies

[07:23] within this administration. and they are

[07:26] telegraphing their moves here. They they

[07:30] understand that going after Trump was

[07:32] politically a disaster for them and

[07:34] that's probably one of the reasons why

[07:36] we have President Trump in the first

[07:37] place. They're going to go for some of

[07:39] the lieutenants.

[07:41] And if they can keep the popularity of

[07:43] this war down, if even our own

[07:46] conservative students are alienated,

[07:49] then they're got a they've got a great

[07:51] chance of taking back the House. And we

[07:53] need to fight that. I'm not a doomer. I

[07:55] don't think this is set in stone. You

[07:57] talk about this now so that it doesn't

[07:59] become a reality later. And we are

[08:02] completely supportive of our military.

[08:04] When the mission was when they pressed

[08:07] go, when the green light was hit, we're

[08:09] all in for success and we're praying for

[08:11] success. But we have to be honest about

[08:13] the political ramifications as well. And

[08:16] we have an obligation to tell you about

[08:18] that.