Jake Auchincloss: “They still can't put it on the end of a ballistic missile.”

“They weren't going to be able to do that in any kind of breakout speed. And now fast forward four weeks of war. We still don't know where the enriched uranium is, and They still can't put it on the end of a ballistic missile. So I'm not exactly sure what this was meant to accomplish except giving them, as I said earlier, a different way to deter adversaries through their control over the Strait of Hormuz.” (08:12–08:15)

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