Trump's Iran Gambit - Ep 26-324

Donald Trump just keeps winning. And the conflict with Iran is no different. I have met with a few people who fancy themselves war strategists, and they love to explain to me how war is supposed to be fought. There are rules, traditions, doctrines, and apparently a handbook that Trump never bothered to read. They tell me Trump violates the established conventions of warfare. And I remind them that the British had a pretty impressive understanding of conventional warfare when they marched into the American Revolution. They had the greatest military in the world, trained soldiers, overwhelming resources, and a rather high opinion of themselves. It didn't work out particularly well for them. In fact, their tactics helped produce the very nation where I was born. One colonel put it to me rather bluntly: “Kevin, nobody stops and starts a war!” To which I responded: “Trump does.” And that gets to something I said on my radio show: Trump's war with Iran didn't begin when the first missiles flew. The war began long before that. Trump went to war with Iran's economy. He went after the money. He went after the oil. He went after the ships carrying the oil, the companies buying it, the banks moving the money, the shadow networks hiding it, and eventually the machinery Iran used to turn that money into missiles, drones and mayhem. And unlike the traditional battlefield, there was no need to fire a shot to start that war. That economic war never stopped. So before we start arguing about whether Trump fights wars the way wars have traditionally been fought, perhaps we should take a look at what he actually did to Iran's economy, how relentlessly he squeezed it, and how the economic battlefield was prepared long before the missiles ever started flying. Because the story of Trump's war with Iran doesn't begin with an explosion. It begins with a chokehold. Kevin Jackson has been called, the "white-collar" Joe Rogan. Given their similar backgrounds in TV, comedy, and martial arts, it's easy to see why people enjoy Kevin's show so much. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.