U.S. Forces Have Plans to Drop the MOAB on Iran’s Nuclear Sites | Mike Drop Newsroom

0:01 [SPEAKER_00]: The U.S. has plans ready to drop the mother of all bombs on Iran. [SPEAKER_00]: U.S. officials told CNN the military has built strike plans that could use the G.B.U. [SPEAKER_00]: 43B Moab, which was the biggest non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal, just 21,600 pounds. [SPEAKER_00]: on Iranian nuclear sites and energy infrastructure if Trump orders combat to resume. [SPEAKER_00]: One target named Pickax Mountain, where the U.S. and Israel believed, or believed, Iran's stored nuclear program parts. [SPEAKER_00]: No decision has been made and Trump has said he won't strike before the November 3rd mid-terms.

0:42 [SPEAKER_00]: No light as a smatter. [SPEAKER_00]: The order comes after November 3rd. [SPEAKER_00]: U.S. air crews fly into Iran and Iran is already threatening troops in the region. [SPEAKER_00]: Again, it keeps going back and forth with the threat of not doing anything before November 3rd, before November 3rd. [SPEAKER_00]: I think we've seen time and time again that Trump often will say things and then do the opposite. [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes he follows through sometimes he doesn't. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that's actually a bad tactic. [SPEAKER_00]: There is part of me that thinks that just not saying anything, not giving any kind of upper hand, not even mentioning that we might do that. [SPEAKER_00]: To me, that makes more sense than to try to fool people and, you know, [SPEAKER_00]: So you're gonna do something to do the opposite.

1:27 [SPEAKER_00]: I think, you know, no news as good news as far as that goes. [SPEAKER_00]: That's my my preferred method, and I wish that that was employed, but I think that's wishful thinking and we've seen Time and time again that that's not the case now the Moab Which I do wonder who came up with that name and it sounds like a 1980s teenager came up with mother of all bombs It was kind of a funny name, but obviously it's a it's an enormous [SPEAKER_00]: projectile, what I don't understand is the bombardment of sites that we hit last summer that was supposed to have been a success.

2:08 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, I remember them talking about several years, you know, being knocked back nuclear program-wise by several years in those attacks and now we're saying it needs to be done again. [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, the messaging has been a recurring problem, I think, for the administration on Iran. [SPEAKER_00]: I would love to have seen more clear cut, more transparent, and more upfront messaging. [SPEAKER_00]: People make mistakes and that's how it works sometimes. [SPEAKER_00]: There's an inherent messaging issue I think with every administration to a certain extent. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why that's so complicated, but it seems to plague pretty much every administration.

2:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Whether or not this bomb is going to actually be dropped or not. [SPEAKER_00]: What is the intended impact? [SPEAKER_00]: what I worry about is that if the bombardment and strikes that that took place last summer which were pretty significant didn't take care of the problem. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm curious as to how these strikes would be any different pickaxe mountain has been a I would say something we've heard about in the news over and over. [SPEAKER_00]: whether or not they decide to hit it I guess remains to be seen I'd love to get your guys to take though do you think these strikes are going to actually do anything different why didn't the strikes last summer you know get the the problems solved to the degree with which we were hoping [SPEAKER_00]: Pentagon has the biggest non nuclear bomb that America owns, so we'll see if it gets hit before November 3rd after or at all and what kind of battle damage assessment has actually done on that.

3:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Trump kills the livestream, but the Fort Hood shooter still faces a firing squad. [SPEAKER_00]: I think this is a good thing, actually. [SPEAKER_00]: I talked about this. [SPEAKER_00]: A fair bit on these shows, it's seen a lot of social media back and forth, it seems like most people have significant push back on the live stream taking place, which, again, I do think is the right decision to not air that and not have that go forward, the execution of course. [SPEAKER_00]: So that is good to see that Trump kind of retracted that and is not going to go through with that. [SPEAKER_00]: There's a couple of stories in both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal regarding Trump's sudden turn on key triggers confusion and mistrust.

4:40 [SPEAKER_00]: And this is kind of a fascinating article. [SPEAKER_00]: I guess I'll hit the highlight from the Times or the headline from the Times, or whether you crane resumes refinery strikes, defying the U.S. [SPEAKER_00]: So I think if you contrast these two headlines, [SPEAKER_00]: It makes sense, and I don't know why it's really all that controversial that Trump is unhappy with Ukraine and in particular Zelensky, but the one thing that I don't like to see, and this is from the Wall Street Journal, it says in the early hours of Wednesday, [SPEAKER_00]: Ukraine was suddenly facing restrictions on its military-grade starlink terminals, and he didn't know why.

5:27 [SPEAKER_00]: The change he warned would give Russia an upper hand. [SPEAKER_00]: Other Ukrainian officials were suspecting the worst. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, suspecting is the key word here, and what they were suspecting is troubling. [SPEAKER_00]: To me, they're suspecting that President Trump ordered Elon Musk [SPEAKER_00]: who obviously owns the company that operates Starlink to throttle keys access to satellite systems, the suspicions which haven't been confirmed, underscore the extent to which the U.S. Ukraine relationship has soured as Trump presses to end the war. [SPEAKER_00]: Here's the issue I take with that is that it's suspected in [SPEAKER_00]: That's kind of the, the just of the entire headline is, is assuming that those suspicions or are correct, or at least that's how I read it, you guys feel free to read the whole article yourself and see if you gain that same perspective, I guess, but the, [SPEAKER_00]: that the broader theme, I think, is for Ukrainian officials to suspect that President Trump ordered Elon Musk to throttle or stifle Starlink access on the commercial side to diminish their capacity and capability to deal with drone strikes.

6:47 [SPEAKER_00]: To me, is a pretty alarming prospect. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, if it is true, that's, of course, very alarming, I think. [SPEAKER_00]: how a U.S. president or any president, putting pressure on a civilian to manipulate certain technology, to put a, an ally, a pseudo ally, I guess at this point, kind of seems like we go back and forth with the amount of money that we've poured into Ukraine. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think there's any debate as to whether or not they're an ally, but there's an obvious [SPEAKER_00]: not just partisan, but I would say societal kind of back and forth with whether or not they want to support Ukraine.

7:31 [SPEAKER_00]: There's obviously heavy support. [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of people that are tired of supporting it. [SPEAKER_00]: I tend to fall into that category. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not trying to tell you how to think, but I do hate to see the amount of money and support that we've poured in there for the lack of return we've gotten on. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a whole mother debate, which sure the comments will be flooded, [SPEAKER_00]: The problem I have with the suspicions in the way that this is reported in the Wall Street Journal is, is there's only one word or one kind of very short statement that says that it was not confirmed and if they're confirmed. [SPEAKER_00]: But the entire basis of the article kind of shows or leads me to believe that that's their position is that they are leaning towards those suspicions being correct.

8:23 [SPEAKER_00]: There needs to be a more neutral tone to the article and not guide people into thinking that that's actually what happened because again, that's kind of the just of the article. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I would love to see those suspicions either be confirmed or shot down and I think you know, writing an article like that, you need to be more upfront about that. [SPEAKER_00]: I do think that it warrants further investigation and trying to get to the bottom of why the Starlink Access was degraded and if there's a justifiable cause for those suspicions. [SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully we'll get more information on that, not certainly.

9:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Certainly not holding my breath necessarily, but we'll see what happens. [SPEAKER_00]: There was a comment yesterday on yesterday's show about [SPEAKER_00]: the leakers and I want to read it and I want to preface this also with I really do appreciate all of your guys' comments a lot of times there are comments that make me think of things from a different angle or make me even question some of my own stances and overwhelmingly the comments are polite and thought provoking and civil and I really love to see that I appreciate it please keep it coming. [SPEAKER_00]: talk about doing some live streams to where I can respond to some of these comments on the fly while we're recording.

9:44 [SPEAKER_00]: So we're looking at getting everything set up to do that. [SPEAKER_00]: It may still be another week or two, but stay tuned for that. [SPEAKER_00]: But I want to read this comment. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, it references the story about the leaks that I talked about yesterday, where a Missouri base, the mainstream media leaked that B2 bombers were leaving. [SPEAKER_00]: And so they ended up having a [SPEAKER_00]: into it days later, and there was a number of comments about people thinking that those leakers should be treated as treason as such. [SPEAKER_00]: My take was that not just the intent and it's hard to prove intent.

10:24 [SPEAKER_00]: The fact is, is that no U.S. casualties were incurred because of these leaks and I think the punishment should fit the outcome. [SPEAKER_00]: I understand the perspective of the punishment should fit the intent. [SPEAKER_00]: I just don't know that you can improve, prove that the intent was to cause U.S. casualties. [SPEAKER_00]: I lean more towards, they just wanted to give Iran a heads up and forth the U.S. as capacity to do that, which you could grab it whole that into a whole other conversation. [SPEAKER_00]: However, [SPEAKER_00]: The comment says, and this is from Frank, my question is, what is the difference between the Heggseth signal incident given timeline of bombing attack against the Houthi and B2 Leaker, both time air crew were at, both times the air crews were at risk, agreed for me, and of course, just my perspective or opinion.

11:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I think where the difference is, is that one was intentional and one was careless. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, do I think that Higgseth should be tried for trees and for using signal and having that ultimately be leaked and again was leaked through a mainstream media source, which it wasn't Higgseth's intent? [SPEAKER_00]: Do I think you should be tried for trees and no? [SPEAKER_00]: If I was the president and that happened in my secretary of war conducted himself in that matter, I would fire him. [SPEAKER_00]: Should he have been fired for that? [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, absolutely. [SPEAKER_00]: I think should he be tried for treason in that case? [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think so. [SPEAKER_00]: It was careless. [SPEAKER_00]: But ultimately, the leak came from, again, a media source and not an actual official.

12:02 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's where I would make the distinction. [SPEAKER_00]: But again, I love to hear your guys' comments if you put those two in the same category or not. [SPEAKER_00]: It's a troubling article out of the Wall Street Journal again. [SPEAKER_00]: Open AI suspect kept ties to the Saudis. [SPEAKER_00]: And this is, I'll spare you the article because it's kind of long to get to the just of it. [SPEAKER_00]: There was a Saudi National Working for OpenAI, recording conversations, stealing secrets, funneling and kind of packaging this knowledge to take back to Saudi Arabia on a one-way tickets ended up getting arrested before he went back to Saudi Arabia.

12:43 [SPEAKER_00]: But this is a continuing problem, not just in [SPEAKER_00]: the AI space, but in technology, in biomedicine science. [SPEAKER_00]: We see infiltration of foreign actors going to US universities, working for tech companies, defense industry companies, stealing secrets, taking them back to their home countries, and either bolstering their capability or kind of reverse engineering to know where we are coming from and what technology we possess. [SPEAKER_00]: I think the military does a good job at, for the most part, there's of course examples of spies even in the U.S. military that are doing the same thing.

13:26 [SPEAKER_00]: I think from a statistic standpoint, it's far less, but it's something that as a country we need to do better, because whether it's a civilian corporation or a defense company that [SPEAKER_00]: has ties and contracts with the military, biomedical, you know, science, departments at universities. [SPEAKER_00]: There needs to be, whether it's a federal, convening entity, department, what have you stood up that takes the lead on doing a better job of filtering, vetting, securing [SPEAKER_00]: observing all of these high-level employees and researchers that are doing these things because it's ultimately putting our country at risk.

14:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Glad to see that the FBI got in there before he was able to go back, but I think it really highlights the concern that a lot of us have with [SPEAKER_00]: the lack of vetting and ensuring that people who are either not from this country or even from this country and have nefarious actions towards our country and our technology spaces is a real problem. [SPEAKER_00]: What I would love to hear from you guys is, what would you do about it? [SPEAKER_00]: What do you think needs to be done about it?

14:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Is there a mechanism that we can put in place to really stifle the ability for things like that to happen? [SPEAKER_00]: The AI thing, I think, is particularly troublesome because the advancement of it is so fast, the capabilities are becoming so significant that [SPEAKER_00]: It does seem like it's a little bit of a runaway train that we need to get ahead of. [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of a fun, actually, before I get into the fun one, this is a very short one. [SPEAKER_00]: But just, you know, cancer is a huge problem. [SPEAKER_00]: There's a new drug that's basically a protein degrader drug that, you know, and I'll spare you the nerding out of the article.

15:36 [SPEAKER_00]: basically gets into a totally new technology medicine wise that attacks cancerous cells from a totally different mechanism. [SPEAKER_00]: And there's a ton of research and a ton of money being put into it. [SPEAKER_00]: From my perspective, I think everybody myself included has had family members or relatives or even themselves deal with cancer and to see something like this as a bit of a breakthrough is encouraging. [SPEAKER_00]: So another article, yesterday about using radio signals or sound waves to attack it and seeing a lot of really significant progress in the fight against cancer for that, so that's a certainly an encouraging thing.

16:22 [SPEAKER_00]: released yesterday pretty wild Tesla leads a rush to sell EVs for over $100,000. [SPEAKER_00]: They launched the Roadster yesterday, which is going to be north of 200 grand. [SPEAKER_00]: But this thing did 0 to 60 and 0.8 seconds and says it'll do 230 miles an hour. [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of looks like a Corvette Tesla mix to me, but I don't know if you guys saw the [SPEAKER_00]: The ramp demonstration where it goes all the way upside down because of some, somehow it's a mechanical or turbine induced downforce that's pretty wild. [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm doing a bunch of flips and going, going aerial, it reminds me of Doc Brown saying where we, where we're going, we don't need roads.

17:03 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if that's even real, I mean, there's a lot of people there that saw it in person, whether or not that, [SPEAKER_00]: Capability is going to be a release to the public as another thing. [SPEAKER_00]: I think that that would be a huge mistake. [SPEAKER_00]: I think people would be flying their cars around running in the stuff nonstop. [SPEAKER_00]: But the technology is sure amazing last, but certainly not least, KFC strikes a deal to ditch Pepsi for Coke and thousands of U.S. locations as a Coke Zero guy. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty stoked about that, not that I KFC very often. [SPEAKER_00]: I just wanted to throw that in there to throw you guys a little bone. [SPEAKER_00]: I do want to again, thank you guys for tuning in, keep those comments and questions coming, looking to do the live stream here soon and I'd love to get your feedback on how often.

17:49 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know about doing it every single day, maybe start out doing Monday, Wednesday, Friday, something to that effect. [SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to get your feedback on A if you'd like to see it and B how often, how we would [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for tuning in. [SPEAKER_00]: Those are your headlines for today. [SPEAKER_00]: God bless everybody. [SPEAKER_00]: Love y'all and we'll see you all tomorrow.