“Supply-side corporate welfare leads us into such things as actually subsidizing Iran's oil industry while we were at war with it.”
Jonah Goldberg
11:50Trump's address on the Iran war offered no new strategy — just recycled Truth Social talking points — while the real question of how the conflict ends remains dangerously unresolved. Military analyst Mike Nelson lays out three possible ground operation scenarios (seizing Kharg Island, clearing Strait of Hormuz launch sites, or securing remaining enriched uranium), each carrying significant American casualty risk that the administration has never prepared the public to accept. The panel's sharpest insight: Iran may already be winning on the strategic level by positioning itself as the Strait's de facto toll-keeper — cutting separate deals with Europe and Asia that leave the U.S. isolated — even as its military gets decimated. If you want a clear-eyed framework for evaluating how this war could end, and what "winning" actually means when the enemy can bleed you through gas prices instead of body counts, this episode delivers it.
Jonah Goldberg welcomes listeners and introduces co-hosts and the main topics for discussion: ground operations in Iran, ending the war, and Meta's social media addiction trials.
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