‘Trump turned this war into a religious war. Now it’s Jihad’ – Stanislav Krapivnik

‘By the middle of the first day of conflict, Trump turned this from a war in Iran to a regional war. And yesterday he turned it into a religious war. Now it’s Jihad’ – Stanislav Krapivnik

In this episode of RT's ‘Sanchez Effect’, Rick takes a look at the big map with Stanislav Krapivnik, a former US army officer, to get the full picture on Israel, the US, and Iran as full-scale conflict hits the region. As a military expert, Krapivnik doubts Trump's boasts that the operation is going well, as the images and numbers show – it's not. He says that American air-defense stockpiles in the region are limited and unable to handle well-planned Iranian air raids. Rick wonders how on the first day of the war Iran managed to penetrate US air defenses in the Persian Gulf. Stanislav echoes the sentiment from Saudi Arabia, where a local expert is sounding the alarm that the US has left them hanging out to dry as it wants to focus on defending Israel. But this is also faltering. Our correspondent on the ground there, Charlotte Dubenskij, tells Rick that missiles and drones rain day and night. This and more – on RT International.