Hello and welcome to the Buller podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. It is Monday. So we're back with

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A lot's happened since Friday's podcast with Amanda Carpenter, which should be a reminder

to you all to be checking out the bulwark takes feed on the weekends as news happens because

we're at war with Iran now.

And Bill, I just want to kind of start with a state of play for people, if that's okay

with you. You can edit or amend any of my assessment. I will be happy to. And also,

you and JVL and Sarah and Mark Kirtling did an excellent early Saturday, with Saturday morning

at 9, kind of first snapshot of where things were. And then you and I and Mark

Hurtling did something at noon yesterday, Sunday. And I've got to say both of them were,

I thought, informative. And luckily, General Hurtling's there so the rest of us can talk.

And he can actually explain and analyze. And no, I think both our analysis of what was happening on the ground and to you're at home for that matter domestically, which you particularly focused on yesterday, was good.

Look, it's a very impressive military operation.

We took out a huge number of Farran assets and working with Israel, very close collaboration with Israel.

I mean, I may be a little surprised by that.

Usually there's some attempt to maintain distance.

It seems like it was a genuinely, you know, coordinated effort, wiped out a large percentage

of the Iranian leadership and really a nationwide campaign against military assets,

way beyond degrading, you know, key nodes of the nuclear program or taking

out some missile sites. You know, that was what happened last summer in June. This was a real

attempt to go after the regime in many aspects, I'd say. And if you look at this, just a map of the

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