Ep.85 America Owns the Skies But Iran Owns the Clock: Col. Mike Kelly on the US-Iran War

America has the most powerful military in the world. But Iran believes it owns something more valuable — time. In Part Two of Three Wars, One Dangerous New World, former Australian Defence Minister Col. Mike Kelly strips away the propaganda surrounding the US-Iran war and exposes a brutal strategic reality that most Western governments are not prepared to confront. From the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's surviving nuclear ambitions to the economic absurdity of firing $4 million missiles at $50,000 drones, Kelly reveals how a conflict defined by overwhelming American firepower has hardened into a deadly stalemate. Iran is sustained by China and Russia, exploiting America's patience deficit and complicating a situation made worse by a divided America increasingly estranged from its allies. Kelly exposes why Iran does not need to defeat America — it just needs to outlast it, and the Taliban taught them exactly how. He examines the brutal economic imbalance of the conflict, Iran's nuclear ambitions after 30 years of trying and what Israel has quietly been doing about it, the formation of a Muslim NATO between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey and what it means for the balance of power in the Middle East, and how China and Russia are sustaining Iran with cheap drones and diplomatic cover while studying every Western weakness. Most urgently, Kelly argues that our democracies are being defeated from within by information warfare without a single missile being fired — and that America's short election cycles make long term strategic thinking almost impossible against an adversary with a lifetime in power. The United States may own the airspace. But Iran believes it owns time. And in this new era of warfare, patience may be the most dangerous weapon of all. This is Part Two of Three Wars, One Dangerous New World. Part One — The War Hiding in Plain Sight — is available now. Part Three on Russia and Ukraine drops next Monday. 🔔 Subscribe to Behind The Headlines for conversations that go deeper than the headlines. New episodes every Monday at 5pm on J-Air 88FM. 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3drfiGP... 📱 Follow us on Instagram:   / behindtheheadlinespod   👍 Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...