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I said anything.

So, Noah, extraordinary events over the last 12

hours or whatever it's been since Israel launched a massive assault on the Iranian regime itself

and its nuclear program. And what's emerged the morning after or two years after, whatever

it's been, was October 7th was a total catastrophe on all levels for the state of Israel,

and then subsequently has turned into a massive strategic debacle for Israel's

enemies, Hamas, decimated, Hezbollah, decimated the Assad regime in Syria, gone, Iranian air defenses,

eliminated, all of which set up this attack that has been a long time

coming. You can argue it's been 20 years overdue, but there are all sorts of reasons not

to do it. Now they have. What do you make of it? Yeah, well, when you put it like that,

it does seem that the 10-7 massacre was ill-considered, let's say.

And this attack probably would not be as successful as it has been in the absence of the wars that followed the October 7th massacre.

As you said, Hamas has been devastated, Hezbollah devastated, the Houthis degraded, the Shiite militias in Syria

and Iranian assets in Syria kicked out. The Iranian proxies in Iraq similarly degraded.

You've seen actually very limited responses from Iran's terrorist proxies to this, including the Lebanese government

putting a lot of pressure on Hezbollah. And Hezbollah itself saying it will not lift a finger for a variety

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