“$20,000 Drone vs $4 Million Missile” - Iran Drone Warfare EXPOSES U.S. Cost Problem

Rob, do you have the clip of u the Shahid drone? There's this one video that I saw. I'll send it to you. >> Which Do you have Do you have a Okay, play this clip about these Shahid drones. Right. If you watch something like this, go ahead, Rob. >> Do you know why the Shahed 136 drone is so deadly? It's just 11 ft long with an 8ft wingspan, but it carries a 40 kg warhead and can fly over 1,800 km to strike with deadly precision. The engine, loud and rough. It's not stealthy. You hear it coming, but can you stop it? It costs just $20,000, but taking it down can cost anywhere from $400,000 to $4 million. That's like trying to stop a bicycle with a Lamborghini. >> Did you know why the >> right there? So, at the beginning, like right now, uh uh you know, you're looking at Russia and Ukraine. We were having this conversation somewhat last night, Tom, at dinner, is if they're using $20,000 drones and to take them down, they have to use $400,000 to a few million dollars to take them down. Okay. >> And If these guys continue to make these and they're accelerating, do you think Trump's team is realizing like whatever they do, this has to be like a Mike Tyson first round knockout type of a fight. Not something that can be dragged out to eighth, ninth round like a Buster Douglas. Not saying that they're going to win the war, but to them winning the war is if the IRGC is still in business 6 months from now, that to me is winning the war. No. If IRGC is still around, would you not say that they won? >> They Yeah, of course. >> Do you understand what I'm saying? % >> if they're still around and they're still running the show, that's not a good look. So for them, if when you see this back and forth with the drones that they have, do you think US has to do this very quickly? Because if they they don't do it really quickly, China's going to get involved and do something. You don't have a long time. I think this is like a you have to make sure you get this >> window. The window is very very small. And the in fact, Tom, you made a great point. I remember the video that we played on Monday of the Navy going, "Everybody, this is the everybody get out. It's closed." First of all, we're dominating. We've sunk the majority of their naval fleet. Whoever that guy is, he's probably dead. How long do you think, Tom? >> Turned off radar in any area. >> Turn off radar and everything. And >> so, what's closing the street? >> Yeah. Who's running the show? >> Yeah. If we're bombing and we're doing it, I think, Pa, that's that's a great point. Get it over with. Destroy them all because if we're going to win, we need to win fast. And then who's going to control the straight of Hormuz? >> Two points here. So I was reading last night they said who really close the straight of Hormuz? Lloyds of London because Lloyds panicked and said none of your insurance is good. >> So did Lloyds of London effectively close the straight of Hormuz? Because a lot of these boats aren't moving because they don't have insurance. They're not >> what Trump did. >> But then >> Trump came in and basically said, I'm going to insure everybody. Nothing. Lloyds of London has been the the the greatest insurance marketplace for, you know, commercial insurance and all types of insurance in the world. >> And they did they not move out and basically reposition themselves out of this >> situation and Trump shows up and goes, "No, no, I'll insure you." It's kind of like how we talk about in California, nobody there's all the insurance companies are leaving. All the insurance companies are leaving. And if Trump showed up and he's like, "Yeah, if you want to buy a house, I got you. I'll do the insurance." So essentially telling all the countries, keep doing business. Business will not stop. Is this his tweet? Effective immediately. I've ordered the United States Development Finance Corporation to provide a very reasonable price, political risk, insurance, and guarantees for the financial security of all maritime trade, especially energy traveling through the Gulf, the Persian Gulf. This will be available to all shipping lines. If necessary, the United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the straight of Hormuz. Bingo. He said, "The free flow of energy to the world. The United States economic and military might is the greatest on earth." It it takes a minute to get that paper done, right? So, you got to wait till you get the paper done. But to Pat's point, the other thing I read, I don't know if you have James, James Military, there's a James analyst that says in modern warfare, the big power on a concentrated attack, you're dead and you're dead fast. But when wars get wider and longer, the big power has trouble with it. That's what happened to Russia and Ukraine. They suddenly were fighting on four or five different different locations. Number one. Number two, if this goes wider, then it becomes more difficult. And the drones. This is why I think they're making announcements about laser weapons and everything because they can't depend on Patriots. You know what the Patriot missile was? >> When we first heard about the Patriot missiles, when we heard about Iraqi with the Scuds, they had Scud missiles that were marginally accurate, but if they landed on you, they were big and they made tremendous damage, but they were conventional. And so Patriot missiles would shoot them down over some area before it reached a target. So the interceptors, this is exactly right, you have to shoot down, you know, a bicycle with a Lamborghini. That's why the advanced weaponry is important to go knock them down out of the sky first. But the wider and longer it gets Pat, that favors that favors the the one you've attacked. And that's exactly what happened in Ukraine. >> I want to show this interview of the foreign minister of Iran, okay? And I want you to judge him by his confidence and his poise or the lack of uh this was a great interview. I watched the whole thing. It's very well done by whoever the interviewers from NBC. He did a great job. He's asking what what do you think about the potential of a ground invasion and here's how he reacts. Go ahead. >> Ruled out boots on the ground in Iran. Are are you afraid of a US invasion in your country? >> No, we are waiting for them. >> Sure. You you are waiting for the US military to invade the ground troops. >> Yes. Because [clears throat] we are confident that we can confront them and that would be a big disaster for them. >> Okay. >> So you're saying that that Iran is ready and willing to take on the US military if there were to be ground troops. >> Well, we were ready for this war uh even more than the previous war. So you can see uh you know the quality of our missiles how much they are upgraded after the last war because we learned lots of lessons and we are prepared for any other eventuality even uh you know a ground invasion. So our our soldiers are prepared for any scenario. I when I said that we we are waiting for them it didn't mean that we are waiting for for continuation of the war. know, but we have prepared ourselves to to confront with any scenario, with any eventuality, any possibility, and we know that we can handle that. >> President Trump has not ruled out. >> Is that uh just acting tough? What do you What do you think about when you hear that? >> He looks somewhat confident. His blink rate doesn't go up. He doesn't appear that he's in a like a stressed physical posture. He either believes what he's saying and he's wrong or he believes what he's saying and there's something there. Adam, uh, that is the most delusional leader I've ever seen. So, it's kind of like point at the scoreboard. You're winning 100 to four and the team with the four is like, "We got them right where we want them." I'm telling you right now, dude, they just decapitated your supreme leader and all your military generals. Everyone showed up to this meeting on Shabbat when Israel doesn't uh and and America doesn't wage war and they sat in a room like idiots and they all got destroyed. The whole world is looking at Iran now crumbling. The regime is falling and they have the the the notion to be like we got them right where we want them. You know what this reminds me of? You ever see these girls on like the whatever podcast? Have you ever seen it? The girl's a disgusting sloppy girl and you go rate yourself one through 10. She's like, "I'm a 10." When she's clearly a one >> and it's so completely delusional and everybody is going like, "Yeah, yeah, you're a 10. You got this, honey." When Iran is crumbling, their leader got killed. Meanwhile, the Who is this guy? >> For minister, >> some spork spokesperson, forest minister, like he's been around. >> This is all part of our plan. The We wanted our leader to get killed. This is all part of our plan. >> It's it's it's either lying or it's delusion or it's a little bit of both. Is he on the Pat? Is he on the list? Is this guy somebody that we would be wanting to target? Because if we want him, he's gone. So, the fact that we've been letting him speak and he's still talking this nonsense. I think he has to do that cuz guess what? Number one, he's not going to go fight. But number two, have has anybody here ever heard of how amazing the Iranian ground troop army? No, I haven't heard none of that. He has to do that. Imagine that guy panicking. Then what does the army do? Cuz the army is looking up to him, right? Because who else is all the generals are dead. So I think he has to do it. But mind you, how petrified do you think that guy is with with United States with Israel's backing over there? Wherever he is, they know where he is. Any bunker, any how wherever he's at, they know. So if they want him gone, so that to me they're keeping him alive forever. >> What's your opinion on a guy like this who's clearly foreign affairs either lying or delusional mistress in Egypt? >> Well, to be in in a position and have a job like this, you have to be delusional. half your job is. >> Yeah. >> You know, Trump is sometimes delusional when he's at the State of the Union given a message and you're watching him saying he just lost Supreme Court to tariffs. They're about to attack Iran and he's talking to saying it's the greatest economy. This the greatest country ever. You a little bit of you need that to make a position like this because >> you can handle the pressure. So that means he's got it. But by the way, >> what's crazy is any minute we can report that he got killed. >> Yes. You realize that any minute we can say he got killed, then who's the next guy? Who's the next guy that's going to come up and talk about? >> The equivalent of Caroline Levit getting up there at the uh as the press secretary and Trump was just murdered. Our entire cabinet is gone. We're losing the war. And she goes, "America's greater than ever." So it's not even Trump saying this. I understand what you're saying. Exactly. The state of the union. The state of the union is You're going to say the state of the of union is strong. This is the press secretary just lying to everybody and everybody knows it. So, it's a little bit different. I totally understand. >> If you read Art of War, what what is the most basic rule of Art of War? >> Act small when you're big. Act big when you're small. You know, you you have to kind of act like when you have nothing you have going on, you have to make them believe that you have a lot of stuff going on. So they're probably reading the uh third grade version of Art of War and maybe they're kind of using that to be like, "Hey son and >> he's making a mistake. Get out of their way." If this were a poker game and he's bluffing what hand does United States and Israel and our allies have put it to this and what does >> Let me regain. Uh you guys heard I think there's a massive uh leadership uh taking place at the Trump Dorado. Trump even yesterday said, "Hey, go to Trump Doral. Go to Trump Dorale." And guess what? We're holding our annual sales leadership summit that we do once a year at the Trump Dorale March 25th through the 27th. If you're somebody that runs a business, a million dollars or higher, and you got five salespeople, this may be the right event for you. May want to watch this video. Go ahead, Rob. 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