Welcome back to Potsay the World.

This is Tommy Vittor.

Sorry the audio here right at the top is not the best.

I'm sitting in a hotel room and then having with a blanket over my head because I wanted

to record a quick topper about the story that posted in New York Times on Monday night

about President Trump reviewing options of sending up to 120,000 U.S. service members

to invade Iran.

So that's not good.

That's pretty scary for all of us.

That is much, much bigger of a force posture than you'd need to just protect our troops

from, you know, militia forces in the region.

And really it's about the size of the invasion force that was sent into Iraq, which, you know,

was enough to get to Baghdad but certainly not enough to keep the peace.

And, you know, it's led to a decade-long catastrophe.

So that story really heightened our concern about what seems to be a constant ratcheting

up of tensions with Iranians, what seems like John Bolton and his team seemingly wanting

to manipulate intelligence and potentially manufacture a pretext for a war with Iran.

So it's something we need to watch very closely.

We also talked about the escalating trade war with China.

We talked about the way President Trump is stealing money from the DOD budget, from real

priorities to fund a stupid wall.

We talked about how the Pentagon is hiding statistics about the war in Afghanistan that

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