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of the Clay Travis and Bucksexten Show Podcast. All right, second hour of play and buck.

Thanks for being here with us. You know, the air strikes that occurred last night. I was

getting text messages from people and they're asking me to wondering what I think about the

possibility here that there could be a major enhancement spreading of the conflict because

what happened is we struck. This was US air strikes against Iranian proxy forces in Syria.

See, one one thing that's important, we talked about this a little bit earlier in the week,

is to see that the Iranian terror tentacles stretch into a whole bunch of countries in the region.

Hezbollah in Lebanon, these militia groups in Syria, militia groups as well. And with say

militia, it's effectively like a non-state actor paramilitaries. I mean, they have very similar,

in some cases, better training and munitions to what you'd get for some of the regional

militaries. But you have that in Syria. You obviously have Hamas and the other Palestinian terror

groups getting direct aid and training from Iran. The Houthi militia in Yemen gets training from

and support from Iran. So these are all of the different ways that Iran has to try to

have leverage in the region. And these are the different mechanisms that it has to,

well, to have terrorist attacks occur. So this is why the US struck at Iran already. So we have

US air strikes against, well, against Iranian proxies. It starts to get a little messy. But two

facilities in eastern Syria that were used by, well, actually, this is directly against Iranian

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