I'm John Batchel, and I welcome my colleague and friend Thaddeus Macotter of American

Greatness as my co-host in a conversation with our colleague, Brandon I'm John Batson, and I welcome my colleague and friend Thaddeus Maconard of American greatness

as my co-host in a conversation with our colleague, Brandon Weikert, the author, he's at national interest.

Most recent books are biohack, the story of the People's Republic of China's Ministry of State Security,

stealing secrets, and also Shadow War, the story of the confrontation with the Islamic

Republic of Iran these many decades. Brandon, welcome, and the news couldn't be hotter right now.

As of 24 hours, hence, the reporting is incomplete because the Internet is down, the phones were told are down, and that needs to be updated, but we're looking through a glass darkly.

In addition, there was anecdote that the Starlink terminals that had been somehow pushed into Iran, they were down as of 24 hours ago.

I don't know how that's possible.

They're still down.

And we also have reports that are anecdotal only of hundreds, hundreds dead and many more wounded.

And there was a video on the Washington Post website yesterday, which is now available

widely, I should believe, of body bags being strewn out in what looked to be a courtyard,

and families going from body bag to body bag, unzipping them to see if they could find their

children.

Quite appalling scene.

So your measure, having studied this regime, of how they're behaving,

how you expect it, and what you see is the biggest risk right now, given that we have,

there's no intervention, but there's intervention talked about. Good day to you, Brandon.

Good day, John. And hello, Thaddeus. I think that when you say there's no intervention,

I think that we've got quite a lot of

covert assets in and around Iran right now. But I say we, I also include the Israelis. I mean,

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