Good evening, and right before we dive in, I'll quickly mention that very obviously,

right now, we are in the very thick of the fog of war.

I mean, I'm skeptical of everything I'm seeing right now.

I just assume instinctually that everything I'm reading, everything I'm seeing is propaganda from one side or the other.

Even seemingly raw footage on X, I just have to

keep reminding myself that every one of the belligerent nations, Israel, Iran, the U.S.,

they have huge social media teams who are working to shape the narrative, skew the discourse,

just flood the zone with as much disinformation as possible for their side, right?

And so with that as the caveat, I'm going to present to you two points that I believe are worth

highlighting from the last several days that I think are interesting and that I would like to share with you.

The first one being the question of why exactly the

U.S. chose Sunday, February 28th to launch the offensive. And to that point, Secretary of State

Marco Rubio, he was on his way to brief Congress on the state of the war when he paused for a

moment to speak to a gaggle of reporters and answer some questions. And one of the surprising things to come out of that exchange was the revelation of why exactly

the U.S. chose to attack Iran on February the 28th, meaning the proximal cause to the start

of the war. Take a listen.

There's two reasons why now.

The first is it was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the United

States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the United States.

The orders had been delegated down to the field commanders.

It was automatic and in fact it bear to be true because in fact within an hour of the initial

attack on the leadership compound, the missile forces in the south

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