Iran's Threat: US Strategy & Diplomatic Levers Explained #shorts

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]I think I am concerned. I think everybody should be concerned about about Iran and what their what their intentions are with this. And while I think it's very clear that that United States Central Command did a significant damage to Iran's military capabilities, there are are likely some residual capabilities that weren't struck that were stockpiled in other places and those are being used now, I think, to reconstitute some of their some of their capability. I wonder if you think that that maybe the next step is should be kind of going back with uh some kinetic activity going or or should it just kind of we do we prolong this this diplomacy stage?

[00:00:41]>> Well, I I think I think the way I kind of look at this I I think what we have to be able to do is we have to be able to pull all of our lever levels or levers of of national power and that includes using military power and and then using our diplomatic power and economic power. I think it's all got to be skillfully used together so that we can create the create the greatest impact. And of course, you know, as we're seeing these delays in trying to move towards uh negotiations or at least get to a platform where we can have some meaningful discussions, I think can be very very frustrating. So those may be opportunities where we can apply some military pressure to kind of urge the process along again. So I I guess I view this as we we ought to be using these as levers. They're they're fully within our capabilities and they can help us move us towards our towards our objectives.