Strike. Counter strike. For all intents and purposes, Israel and Iran are at war with the first exchange of direct attacks on the other's territory. After decades of simmering, often violent hostility conducted mostly in the shadows against the backdrop of the full blown campaign against Hamas and Gaza, both sides appear to have declared a pause after the exchange of blows. Meantime, after months of stalemate, a $95 billion military aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan was approved Saturday by the House of Representatives, passage that's likely to be repeated pretty quickly in the Senate panel. Major developments this week what do you see moving forward, Gary, I'm going to start with you. Well, it's the Middle East is complicated. Ukraine is complicated. But Ukraine needs the help. The problem in the Ukraine issue is like like with Israel and dealing with the terrorists. We don't have the administration giving good guidance. They want to dictate to our allies how they run their wars. So Ukraine is dribbled out the aid. They want to put Israel under the same situation. But but here's what happened. Iran was forced to do something according to my sources, because their allies, the terrorists, were at them. What are you doing? You're not doing anything. You just sit back and do nothing. So they launch all this stuff there and it was totally unsuccessful because of the effectiveness of the anti-missile anti-drone technology that Israel and the United States have developed, except it costs like $600 million to launch all that ordnance to stop it. Nothing hit from the Iranians. That's sobering for them, because they've invested a lot of money in their missiles. And drones. Israel then wanted to go was going to counter, and they had to respond. The United States put Israel on an enormous pressure and then told Israel, look, we'll okay, Rafa, do not hit Iran hard. So Israel decided to show a demonstration. They launched a number of missiles, and they hit an air base in Iran. They all got through. Iran didn't knock down any of them, and it was just a handful. But Iran has now gotten the message their stuff may not work. And Israel can hit them whenever they want, so that's probably a good thing. We don't want to see war expand, but the meantime, we have the Iran nuclear program continuing a field, and the United States needs to get involved to stop it, because it will make a much more dangerous world for everybody. Okay, Marcus, your concern has been, we've got lots of issues unsolved here, and we're going to spend $95 billion over there. And it may not be the last billion. They ask for 95 billion. And there's no end to it and it won't change the outcome. Am I correct. Oh, you're absolutely correct. Matter of fact, my statement was going to be there's a little piece of land between the Atlantic and the Pacific with 95 million people that pay taxes in this in the United States of America, that could use that relief of $95 billion. There are people that are hungry. There are people that are dying. There are people that are sick. There's a boar border crisis. There's a health care crisis. There is a poverty crisis. There are a number of different things. There is a violence crisis in the United States of America. There's a war going on in our nation right now between individuals, between gang
