J. D. Vance: “What the President set out to do was decimate the Iranian…”

“I was very up very late last night and talking about that. Look, I do think there are good developments here. And let me just say a few things. First of all, What the President set out to do was decimate the Iranian military, decimate their ability to wage conventional war. And that military objective, as the President said yesterday, as I said yesterday, has been achieved. And because of that, what the President did is he basically issued an ultimatum to the Iranians.” (23:36–23:44)

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