I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekinez show.

John Fieldhouse has returned.

How are you doing, John?

Doing well, sir.

All right, man.

Let's talk about this.

This is a controversial subject.

I don't think anyone that we know wants to go to war with Iran.

God, I hope not.

Not at least people that we truly respect, but something that I've been saying for over a year and, you know, having Lee Enfield on, I was over a year ago, right after October 7th, when they started talking about war with Iran, you know, we basically came to the conclusion then, and I haven't

changed my mind at all, is that you can't, the United States can't win a war with Iran, even if

they're fighting alongside Israel, which Israel never does. I think that war with Iran is pretty much impossible and would just be an endless quagmire.

So I asked you to come on to talk about it, and people have heard Jan here before, your suggestion on the coup d'etat.

The Lutvac book went over very well and helping me and give

adding context to that people have come to know you but can you give as much of your background

as you can on um you know as far as as military goes and why you might have an opinion

on this that people can listen to. Sure. Start off, John Fieldhouse, and before anybody

asked, I am not, have never participated in any DOD Pentagon level planning on a hypothetical invasion of Iran.

And had I done so, it would be a crime for me to discuss classified information.

Because frequently it comes up any time we discuss these things that we'll bring up,

well, you're not a strategic planner who's focused on this.

And my buddy is, and he says it's great,

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