In Light Of Everything Going On

I mean, just look at what happened to the head of the Quds Force. I mean, he survived the attack on the supreme leader, he got arrested by the rest of the IRGC as being an Israeli spy, and he got killed. We don't know if he was a real Israeli spy or not.

I don't think it matters at this point because he had so many enemies in the IRGC that it was a good excuse to kill him. That sort of thing going on right now because of the churn in senior leadership, because he keeps getting killed, is going to tear the IRGC apart, especially when they start running out of money. All right, who has the payroll now that the leadership is dead, and you've got all the major barracks and logistics and headquarters struck by bombs? How are you going to meet payroll if the payroll in the headquarters is now component parts, thanks to a 2,000 pound JADAM? Let's look at this from the logistics and the payroll point of view.

How are the Iranians going to pay their forces? Real quick on that, Trent. It may somehow indirectly be related, and I appreciate everything you've been saying. I've been listening, and I wasn't able to talk for a little bit, but I just saw something come through that China's government has told the country's largest oil refiners to suspend exports of diesel and gasoline in light of everything going on in the conflict.

That's actually extremely, extremely important news because that means they're getting ready for a very long conflict. This is my question, though, because one of the things that we have been discussing is, indirectly perhaps, but is the regime really on the brink of collapse? Are we miscalculating their capabilities? I've really been enjoying this conversation, but when seeing this news from China, I kind of wonder, this goes back to what I was saying earlier, that perhaps we're looking at Iran's capabilities in the wrong way, or we're miscalculating the power that they have when we compare it to other moments of time. I hear a lot of conversations about their military capabilities, their assets, their pieces, but they've been very clever in terms of how they've built their network.