Boots on the Ground in Iran? Clint Bruce Breaks Down Trump's Strategy in the Middle East | Ep. 286 | Pt. 2
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Mike Ritland
4.9 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | To me, I have, I guess, conflicting views on it. |
| 0:04.4 | I can see both sides. |
| 0:07.1 | It's definitely a complex issue. |
| 0:09.0 | What I'm curious, if you kind of draw back or draw up to maybe the 30,000-foot view |
| 0:14.9 | and you look at it as kind of geopolitics in its entirety, |
| 0:19.4 | and you think about, you know know our both decision and or desire to do |
| 0:25.8 | what what we did you know six eight months ago with the nuke bombings fast forward to the last month |
| 0:32.7 | worth of strikes and you know at this point over 10,000 of them yeah put. Put yourself in the Trump. There has to be an exit strategy. |
| 0:40.0 | There has to be in state that, but I guess if you were in Trump shoes, would you have done |
| 0:46.3 | what he's done as it relates to Iran for the last 12 months or would you have done anything |
| 0:51.4 | different? I think that there's no absolute rights in this |
| 0:55.4 | but i will tell you that it's wrong to think that iran would not continue to try to affect |
| 1:01.8 | what it very openly says it wants to affect like iran and there's a difference between i don't want to be |
| 1:07.2 | clear there's just when iran in iran there's a's an IRGC, there's the regime, right? |
| 1:12.9 | And because Iran is not this homogenous nation. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, same thing when we talk about in China. There's a Chinese Communist Party and there's Chinese, right? so I don't want to commingle them, right? |
| 1:27.8 | There's a, but I do't want to commingle them right there's a |
| 1:28.1 | but I do think we're well served to this is one thing I'll give radical terrorist credit |
| 1:34.9 | for is they're generally pretty honest they they're telling you what they want to do |
| 1:39.2 | and they're telling you that they're going to do it and well they're they're honest with |
| 1:42.2 | their objectives they're not particular no no they're deceitful and. Well, they're honest with their objectives. They're not particular. No, no, they're deceitful and everything else. But they say, hey, we are going to launch |
| 1:50.0 | attacks. We're going to, like, that's their in-states. That's their desired in-state to affect this. |
| 1:58.0 | I mean, Iran has been the state sponsor chair for for you're in Iraq. And, you know, |
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