Charles C.W. Cooke
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 29 Jul
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But I think that to end up with, which is where we seem to be headed, an Obama style Iran deal, plus having taken out their nuclear facilities is better than just an Obama style Iran deal.
But that doesn't change the fact that what Trump was talking about in the early days of this has not come to fruition.
And he misjudged his own or the American public's willingness to take this to its conclusion.
Well, I don't think it would have mattered what I said to Donald Trump because quite literally every single thing that he does, he casts as the greatest thing that has happened since the creation of the earth.
So this is very much in his wheelhouse.
This will have been a smashing victory.
uh the war will have been a smashing victory the peace will have been a smashing victory and if you look back a few years ago he basically re-ratified nafta but called it the donald trump free trade deal and wrote how beautiful it was and how awful the status quo and he was so we'll get that here uh again uh not to be pedantic but the the the issue here megan is we're just not prepared to pay the price uh you were saying well we didn't have this problem with the waterways before
The US Navy plays largely the role in the world that the British Navy did prior to 1945.
That's keeping these waterways open.
The British Empire was quite willing to send gunboats and just shell anyone who got in the way of international trade.
The US Navy has been as well.
But this one is a little bit different because this is not just the quotidian maintenance of the seas.
This is quite obviously the product of the war.
And that, I think, is the fatal problem that Trump encountered and where Iran recognized the pressure point that you described.
Because there's only really two things that Americans would care about.
They have a right to care about both of these things.
One is losing American soldiers.
Two is gas prices.
If Trump had gone into Iran and we hadn't lost any American soldiers and gas prices had stayed precisely the same, if there had been no economic fallout whatsoever from this, I don't think the average person would have cared.
Maybe they should, maybe they shouldn't.
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