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Hey, everybody. Robert Evans here, and this is It Could Happen here, a podcast about, well, what's happening?

And on March 30th, 2026, which is the day that I started sitting down to

write the episode that you're listening to right now, Reuters published an article announcing

the arrival of another 2,500 United States Marines in the Middle East as the Trump administration

considers options for Iran operations. As you all know, Operation Epic Fury, it's nothing to call it,

but its name, was launched a little over a month ago with the administration insists an expected

duration of four to six weeks. And we're coming up to the end of that timeline. Trump announced the

day I record this March 31st that he's expecting

combat operations to end in two weeks or less. So we'll see what happens. Tomorrow, there's

supposed to be a speech by the president on Iran, so we'll know more than. But relevant reporting

indicates the Trump administration is at least seriously weighing

the feasibility of sending Marines in to take and hold Iranian territory, namely Karg Island

and potentially other islands in the Strait of Hormuz, most of which are inhabited and all

of which are heavily defended. If they go through with this, we might be about to watch in real time one of

the most consequential disasters in military history, a modern-day Gallipoli in which hundreds or

thousands of American soldiers and billions in material get chewed up in an unsustainable and

unwinnable war of attrition. There's no real way for the average American to know what

kind of stockpile our military maintains of the most advanced munitions. We're talking precision

guided missiles like the Tomahawk cruise missile, but also the interceptor missiles used by our

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