KT McFarland was an assistant defense secretary in Ronald Reagan's first term in 1981.
And then she was assistant director of national intelligence under Michael Flynn in early 2017 at the beginning of Donald Trump's first term as president.
Despite what George Orwell's liberal media is fronting, the war in Iran is largely over, and Iran has lost. In another interview on Rob Schmitt's program on Newsmax last night, McFarland said (if I recall, quoting Sun Tsu's The Art of War ) there are two ways to kill a snake: (1) Cut its head off (which can have messy and unexpected results), or in a more controlled situation (2) Starve it to death. And Trump is doing the latter.
Trump has sunk Iran's entire navy. Has destroyed much of Iran's missile and drone arsenals, and destroyed Iran's ability to manufacture more.
Iran can lob a handful of missiles and drones at a time, but they really no longer have the power to fight back, just enough to gesture that they're still alive and resisting, on some very limited ineffectual level.
I've already deailed how unimportant and irrelevant the Strait of Hormuz has become. In the next 3 to 6 months it will be completely bypassed by other oil supply lines and new oil supplying nations, like Saudi Arabia, Oman (both massively ramping up their oil production, these two nations ALONE producing more than Iran ever produced daily) Plus Venezuela ramping up production. And the United States also massively ramping up oil production. And the U.S. is where about 200 oil tankers are re-routing to right now, to fill up on oil they could not get in the Persian Gulf. REGARDLESS of whether Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz, the world is rapidly moving in the next few months to other oil routes and suppliers, and the Strait's blockage (or not) will be increasingly irrelevant. And regardless, global oil supply will rise, and the price will inevitably drop increasingly over the next 6 months.
The U.S. and Israel together have killed off much of Iran's leadership, their brightest and best and most experienced leaders and generals. Killed off all their leaders and their replacements, three times over.
Over the last two weeks, the U.S. has sealed Iran's eastern border with Afghanistan, further cutting off Iran's remaining economic and military supply lines from China and other nations. The Iran beast is starving, and increasingly unable to even pay their most loyal soldiers. Not even getting paid, they will increasingly not fight to preserve the regime. And sensing weakness, the Iranian people ( 85% of whom hate this IRGC regime, and want it overthrown ) will rise up and fight the regime as it begins to collapse.
And eventually, George Orwell's liberal media will have to admit and report the truth of this. And report the wisdom of what Trump has set in motion.
