Sanchez Effect | 'Trump turned this from war in Iran to regional war. Yesterday into religious war'

In this episode of RT's ‘Sanchez Effect’ Rick takes a look at the big map with Stanislav Krapivnik, former U.S. army officer, to get the full picture on Israel, the U.S. 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. The U.S. veteran says that stockpiles of American air defences 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 has managed to penetrate U.S. air defences in the Persian Gulf. Stanislav echoes the sentiment from Saudi Arabia, where a local expert is sounding the alarm that the U.S. has left them hanging out to dry as they want to focus on Israel's defence. 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.