Alistair Campbell
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It's a video.
It's a stadium full of people watching videos of old martial arts fights.
And Trump is really weirdly flirting with the male fighters.
He's hanging out with the ridiculous Infantino.
Rubio is doing silly poses.
And it's just not serious.
And our newsletter, the people apparently really like it when we recommend Reads of the Week.
My read of the week, as so often, is in Foreign Affairs magazine.
And I don't know if you saw it, Federica Mogherini, she led the negotiations of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran.
And she's written a piece with Saeed al-Shah, who was one of the people who was involved in the architecture around what became known as the JCPA.
And so what this article sets out, first of all,
They worry that the lesson that Tehran has drawn from the recent weeks is not that restraint on nukes brings security, but that if you're vulnerable, you invite an attack.
They argue the argument for retaining the nuclear option is probably stronger now than it was.
They then go on to say that that means that just as it was when they did that agreement,
which I think took – going on for 10 years, involving several countries.
You had China, US, France, Germany, Russia, the UK, and the European Union.
It went on for more than a decade.
And it was the only time that Iran actually did start to –
identifiably pull back on parts of their nuclear program.
They're basically saying that the diplomacy is the only viable way to get this thing back on track.