WTH: Trump's Iran Endgame. General Jack Keane Explains.
What the Hell Is Going On
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4.4 • 633 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Three weeks into Operation Epic Fury, we share cautious optimism with General Jack Keane on the current state of our military operation in Iran. News of Donald Trump's negotiations with Tehran and an extended partial ceasefire require us to carefully define our objectives and determine what a good deal really requires. General Keane makes it clear, "They would have to surrender to us in major concessions all the things that we are physically taking away from them to include keeping the Strait of Hormuz open." With a three-week horizon, is regime change at the hand of the Iranians still viable? What lies at the end for this regime, once their missiles, cash, and nuclear materials are gone? And what is Admiral Coopers' game plan to get us there?
General Jack Keane is a retired 4-star general and former Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army. He is the Chairman of the Institute for the Study of War and a Fox News Senior Strategic Analyst.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.1 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. |
| 0:07.1 | Thanks for listening. Here's our show. |
| 0:08.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:10.5 | What's really going on? |
| 0:12.0 | We said, what the hell happened? |
| 0:13.5 | You don't have to know what the hell is on it. |
| 0:15.6 | They see what's going on. |
| 0:16.7 | I don't know what's going on. |
| 0:18.0 | What is going on? |
| 0:20.0 | We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on. |
| 0:30.0 | Hi, I'm Daniel Pletka. |
| 0:31.9 | And I'm Mark Tiesen. |
| 0:33.3 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:39.2 | Mark, what the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? Mark, what the hell's going on? |
| 0:47.8 | What the hell is going on? We are three weeks into Operation Epic Fury, which is probably the best name for a military operation I've ever heard. |
| 0:53.7 | And it's going incredibly well. We have executed the president's mission flawlessly. |
| 0:58.4 | Our military has decimated the Iranian missile program. |
| 0:59.4 | It's air defenses. |
| 1:02.4 | The Israelis have decimated their leadership. |
| 1:04.0 | The regime is reeling. |
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