Al Gore

And he knows that.

So he's stuck.

And unfortunately, the country is stuck now.

Things happen in war.

Once they're launched, it's difficult.

But the Iranians appear to have established as a reality the continuing control of the theocracy with succession plans that have been uninterrupted by all these assassinations and attacks.

They've proven that they're still in control of the streets and in control of the country.

They've proven a level of competence in their military planning that strikes fear in the hearts of the surrounding Gulf nations.

And they've established that they can indeed exercise unilateral control over 20 percent of the fossil fuel supply of the entire continent.

world and an even higher percent of the fertilizer supply of the world.

And they've established that they can launch very serious and damaging attacks on their neighbors.

So now Trump is responding by escalating his threats and having one ultimatum after another.

You know, it's not working.

Again, I hope he finds an exit ramp for God's sake, but you know, launching attacks on their,

on their civilian power plants is a war crime, according to most international lawyers, but would also trigger the response against Israel, against the Gulf nations, et cetera.

And that could really spiral this thing out of control.

So we're in an exceptionally dangerous situation.

But one thing I want people to focus on is,

This mistake he's made is historic.

And I wanna focus on how bad the judgment was in launching this attack in spite of clear warnings that it was a mistake.