Steve Yates, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a former Bush National Security Administration official — as well as Buck’s sherpa on his trip to Taiwan — joined Clay and Buck to discuss the prospects of a strike on Iran. He also touched on the odds that Cuba’s communist regime will fall.

Perhaps the author of the quote is the “con man” and “lunatic”… At best, a polemicist, not a strategic thinker. https://t.co/2KZ5bFZUwV

— Steve Yates (葉望輝) (@SteveYates) February 18, 2026