This week I appeared on Scott Ryfun Straight Talk — coastal Georgia’s most-listened-to talk radio show — to cut through the noise on the Iran ceasefire extension.

We covered:

* Why the “indefinite ceasefire” shows how the IRGC has consolidated power

* The strategic difference between operational success (obliterating Iran’s conventional military) and impossible problems (securing nuclear material without boots on the ground)

* Why flippant commentary about “just solving it” ignores the actual cost in American lives

* The moral question nobody’s asking: How is a radical Islamist theocratic regime with nuclear weapons different than North Korea, Russia, or China?

Scott gets it; he’s rightly skeptical of the hot-take industrial complex and wants to understand what’s actually happening, not telling his audience what to think about it.

(This is why Watchtower Intel exists: to bridge the gap between how military operations are planned and executed, and the circus happening in the commentary class.)

-Riley

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