Barry
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If that could be contemplated, then I think that the give on the side of the US is saying, hey, in lieu of boots on the ground, in lieu of loss of life, in lieu of further economic harm, we have to leave the current regime in place.
I think that that's, when you sum it up, and Tom did an excellent job as well, I think when you sum it up, that's the give that is being thought of to say, okay, if we can accomplish these things,
That's pretty good progress.
We don't get everything, but it's pretty good progress.
Brandon.
They're not going to get that.
And here's the other side of it is that.
by the time this five-day pause in attacks ends, the U.S.
will be in a position militarily because troops would have arrived there.
So Trump is always very good at kind of talking one way or having one way and then using the element of surprise to our advantage.
So I wonder, is that another repeat of that if we are positioning ourselves, buying some time for that, and then, as Brandon said, maybe going in a little bit more
to use his word, a little bit more savage.
I mean, we really don't know, but that is a possibility.
Well, I, you know, I think, I think the that medical model
of prevention and then diagnosis and treatment.
You know, it works for some things in very simplistic way.
And quite honestly, to me, again, this is a personal opinion, it doesn't work that way.
And I'll say it in the real world for a couple of reasons.
And, you know, I'm going to be hoping for some help from Tom on this as I lay this out a bit.