I guess the uh reality of defeat in Iran

has sunk in. I mean, the straight of

Hormuz is in uh Iranian control and the

United States and the Israelis are not

fighting Iran anymore,

>> right? I mean, oh, go ahead.

>> I mean, where where does it go from

here? To to quote what you said

recently, is this peace or is it a

pause?

>> Right. Right. And I I think what you're

going to see, judge, is is this this

idea that a modus of we've talked about

this for months now, right? But this

kind of just this this hot ceasefire,

this accommodation, this way of of of

going along and getting along as long as

the commercial ships continue to see an

uptick and you're going to have these t

periods where the Iranians are upset and

they shut down the states of Hammuz

because the Iranians have control of the

states of Hammuz and there's nothing

anyone can do about that. Um, and so I I

think what you'll see is you'll see this

status quo uh that we have seen

essentially continue to develop and the

back and forth with the negotiations

uh will continue and I think this will

go on through the elections and then

after the elections I think Donald Trump

has to make a determination as to

whether this war is going to be his

legacy. this piece as he can sell it as

a piece as he can sell it as a victory

as he can sell it as the only president

in 47 years to stand up to the Ayatollah

etc etc etc uh you know then Donald

Trump has to make a decision whether or

not he wants that as his legacy or he

wants to go back to war uh for what

purposes if he couldn't accomplish in

March and April what you set out

militarily why would be able to

accomplish it in December but

>> military starting to bring heavy

equipment like jet fighters home.

>> That's my understanding. That's my

understanding that that they have

rotated some of those units back. They

can always bring them back to the Middle

East. But that's my understanding,

judge, is that some of those aircraft uh

some of those fighter squadrons have

begun to rotate back or have been

rotating back to the US. And we're

seeing reports uh one was in the Wall

Street Journal, but I think this is what

most folks have been thinking about for

the last couple months is that the

United States and its Gulf Arab allies

or vassels I guess you could call them

might be better uh are uh you know

revisiting how the American force

structure in the Middle East is going to

look like. What's the American footprint

going to look like? And certainly the

idea that the Americans would reinforce

their presence or expand their presence

in Israel. Uh particularly, you know, as

we see section 224, a proposed amendment

for the National Defense Authorization

Act, as we see that trying to integrate

uh the American and the Israeli

militaries, you know, that makes sense.

>> Military and intelligence

>> and intelligence and technology and

industry. I mean, I think you basically

what you'd have the entire American

military-industrial complex uh looking

no different than Congress does when it

comes to the Israel lobby, you know, and

the real danger on this just if people

aren't aren't sure how it's going to

work is this proposal. And there's also

three or four other bills involved here

that, as you said, judge, would expand

it to intelligence into other areas,

this integration. I mean, the danger, of

course, is that, you know, you can vote

every year on giving money to Israel.

you can take away that money, but this

integration is permanent. So that's one

danger. And the other danger is that

this creates essentially an unheard of

position within the Department of

Defense, this executive agent,

essentially a ZAR, uh someone who would

be responsible for all things Israel

within the Pentagon. And that this

person would have the power to override

essentially anyone in the Pentagon, any

institution, any agency, any branch,

>> including the Secretary of Defense. it.

I would assume that person will be loyal

to the Secretary of Defense because

that's what who would have appointed

him.