All right, we are live.

You probably have already known that.

I just discovered it.

But I want to talk about the events that have been taking place over the last few days,

but also especially today when it comes to what is clearly an increasingly

dangerous and escalating and spiraling out of control, U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

And there's so much to say about this.

Right now, as we speak, there are Iranian missiles pummeling various strategic Israeli towns and cities that are signifying

what people have long been warning what happened, which is an erosion and a weakening of

Israeli air defenses that are just being overwhelmed by the number of Iranian missiles that have

been sent.

There's mass casualty attacks in Israel where large numbers of people are seriously

wounded or dying.

Massive devastation from these missiles that Israeli's vaunted Iron Dome is starting to

be increasingly incapable of intercepting.

You see similar things throughout the Gulf states,

the ones that are home to American military bases that have been used to stage attacks.

On Iran, Iran has obviously targeted them as well. And some of those major devastation,

including in Cotter, where the Iranian missiles took out a huge chunk of their natural gas facility that took many years to build.

At the same time, you have the Strait of Hormuz, which remains under Iranian control and closed.

And this is something that President Trump either has to try and resolve, which can only be done with

lots of ground troops and Marines on the ground, at least on various islands close to Iran,

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