Bob Pittman

for this to get anywhere and then the other question is you know possible that this is all negotiating tactic and they went in very blase and really with the plan of okay we're going to blow up the first round and we're going to apply this additional pressure and then maybe then we'll soften them up and we'll have a better chance of striking some sort of a deal that's less than utterly humiliating but the basic military landscape is still the same

It's still the same reality.

You don't have a military option that's acceptable to you to open the Strait of Hormuz.

Your one attempt at going in on the ground at all, whether it was for just a pilot rescue or whether there was something else going on there, yeah, you got your guy, allegedly, but you did not – but you also had to –

blow up a whole bunch of aircraft on the ground and it was not a success from that perspective, so you realize that you've got a real problem there if you're gonna put boots on the ground in mainland Iran or any of these islands, none of that reality has changed.

So Trump thinks he can, you know, bluster and threaten and cajole his way into getting a better deal.

But the Iranians, I think, have long since stopped really listening to him and they pay attention to the things that he does, not the nonsense that he says.

Let's think about the UFC thing is a perfect example.

This is why I genuinely believe that the talks works kind of set to fail is if you

dispatch a negotiator to the talks who has to then call you 10, you know, at the minimum, what we know of is six plus times.

And then Trump can constantly weigh in on this detail or that detail.

And then you're at a fucking UFC of fight with the secretary of state, the literal chief diplomat of the country.

How real was this talk in the first place?

In my opinion, look, this is pure speculation.

This is my idea.

Trump and Rubio were like, here's what we need to do.

We

any of the internal dissenters in our cabinet and to the world that actual diplomacy, we tried it, but it totally failed, and then when it fails, we can go back to what we wanted to do in the first place.

Is there some sort of naval blockade?

I don't know.