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🔎OF INTEREST Thomas Massie: "The real reason that we conducted those [2025] strikes on Iran is because they were building up enough conventional missiles, not nuclear missiles...[to] overwhelm Israel's missile defense" "It was a calculation made by Israel" "then [there was] a decision to assist them in the task of reducing those inventories" "I think what happened is a few months later there was more intelligence and Israel and the United States... decided... 'Oh, we didn't actually deplete enough conventional missiles... to eliminate the threat of Iran completely from Israel" This clip of Massie (@RepThomasMassie) is taken from an interview with James Patrick (@BigPictureWatch) posted to YouTube on May 21, 2026. ---------------Partial transcription of clip---------------- "The war with Iran serves a strategic purpose, but not for the United States, it's for Israel. Last summer, when, you know, there was the strikes that lasted very briefly, the public argument was that we were taking out their nuclear capability. And then we declared that we had obliterated it and set them back years. "But merely six months later, it was necessary again to obliterate their nuclear capability, or so we were told. That argument's getting old. "The real reason that we conducted those strikes on Iran is because they were building up enough conventional missiles, not nuclear missiles, but conventional missiles. Israel had calculated, and perhaps our own intelligence, that they could overwhelm Israel's missile defense, by just shooting them, by mere production, mass production of these missiles. "It was, I believe it was an effort to reduce the stockpiles of conventional medium-range missiles in Iran so that they couldn't overwhelm Israel. It was a calculation made by Israel and then a decision to assist them in the task of reducing those inventories. "And I think what happened is a few months later there was more intelligence and Israel and the United States realized they hadn't really, the nuclear capability notwithstanding, maybe it's still buried in a mountain somewhere, and they just have to dig it out from the first bombing. "But that, notwithstanding, I think what they decided was, 'Oh, we didn't actually deplete enough conventional missiles, conventional, with conventional warheads and medium-range to eliminate the threat of Iran completely from Israel."

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