Analyst Warns Trump May Be Getting Sucked Into Boots On The Ground Regime Change War

A national security analyst told Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson U.S. ground troops could ultimately be deployed to Iran on “The Tucker Carlson Show” Wednesday.

Brandon Weichert argued that the U.S. may have no choice but to send ground troops into Iran in order to accomplish President Donald Trump’s objectives while suggesting American stockpiles for longer-range attacks are running out. However, he claimed the approach would probably look more like Afghanistan than the Iraq invasion of 2003. Weichert clarified that he does not have access to classified information and is merely “reading the room.” (RELATED: US Rival Reportedly Helps Iran Target American Troops)

“I don’t believe it would ever be an invasion like Iraq in ’03. First of all, we don’t have that capability anymore, which should scare every American,” he said. “Second of all, the way the country arrayed, Trump is trying to do this in a light footprint methodology. So he, I think, is going to replicate the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan in 2001, where we sent a bunch of special forces A-teams and CIA paramilitaries, infiltrated the country and linked up with organized locals.”

He suggested the U.S. would work with the Mujahedin-e-Kulq (MEK) similarly to how they worked with the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, along with the Kurds.

“And we’ll be coming in from the south, and it will kind of link up in whatever’s left in Tehran,” Weichert argued before downplaying the MEK and warning that Iran’s incredibly difficult to wage a ground war against.

“The likelihood of this working is very, very low,” he warned.

Weichert also warned the Iran conflict could trigger a World War III-like event at a time when over a dozen countries have become involved. This now reportedly includes Russia giving Iran intelligence on the whereabouts of U.S. Troops.

Carlson argued that the U.S. is being pulled into the conflict to satisfy Israeli interests, arguing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a “hammerlock” on the U.S.

Weichert seemingly agreed, citing an unnamed CIA officer and other figures.

Critics on both the left and the right have pushed against Trump launching strikes on Iran alongside Israel. Republican Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic California Rep Ro Khanna both sponsored a war power resolution on Iran to rein in Trump’s military power in the Iran strikes. That measure was ultimately voted down in the House of Representatives.

“We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday, according to The Guardian. “We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t pre-emptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.”

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives to brief House and Senate leaders on US military action in Iran, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 2, 2026. The United States hit hundreds of targets across Iran, and Israel expanded its bombing to Lebanon on Monday as President Donald Trump vowed to avenge the first US deaths in the war he launched to topple Tehran’s ruling clerics. Iranian forces fired missiles and drones across the Middle East, killing people in Israel and the United Arab Emirates, in retaliation for the conflict that began February 28 with the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

Weichert also warned of possible nuclear warfare if the U.S. runs out of lower grade weapons. Trump assured the American people Monday that there was plenty of “high grade weaponry” left. Weichert said “high grade” weapons include low-yield nuclear weapons capable of mass destruction.

On Wednesday, the U.S. tested a weapon known as a ‘doomsday’ ballistic missile near the coast of California, according to the New York Post. The missile can deliver nuclear warheads 20 times more powerful that the atomic bomb used against Hiroshima in World War II, the outlet reported.