Brian Katulis
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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at least for the next eight to 12 hours, it means buckle up.
But if you see Trump, President Trump's record over the last four or five months, it could be 180 degree opposite of what he said.
And if you look at the public statements
During the war, during this very fragile ceasefire, it's all over the map because President Trump engages not in traditional diplomacy, but what I call performative diplomacy.
He actually doesn't do diplomacy that tries to get deals that build trust.
He just uses what I call troll power to actually aggressively get what he wants.
But he often comes up empty-handed, as we see with Iran or with Russia and Ukraine.
Essentially, the regime that still remains in place in Iran, though the top leaders were killed on the first day, the regime that's been in power since 1979, it has become even less predictable and perhaps even more extreme.
So what's essentially happening is that they know that President Trump is desperate because of the economic pain that America and the world is facing,
public opinion ratings have plummeted.
And the Iranians watch this very closely.
So they've got him cornered in a sense, and they keep on pressing what they think is their advantage.
And in essence, they engage in diplomacy to try to buy time.
But the real problem here is that President Trump has never, since before the war began, articulated a clear endpoint that was realistic about what he was trying to achieve through military action.
And that's why he's been all over the map.
And essentially this test of wills has been playing out.
This latest escalation is just part of that.
Yeah, the problem and the reason I use that term is that there really wasn't the really quiet diplomacy that's needed to inform this.
And the important missing piece have been the key stakeholders, right?
including Gulf Arab countries that are directly affected by this.
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