Damian Paletta

There's a lot of characters and actors with a lot of weapons, with a lot of motives.

How does Israel act in the next two weeks?

How did the Iranian proxies act in the next two weeks?

Is there a centralized Iranian government where one leader can tell the other parts to stop, put down your weapons?

I don't know.

We haven't really been tested that way in terms of the new global dynamics.

So I think there's a lot of things that could go wrong.

Well, it's a real challenge in terms of following the reporting because there's been many times in his second term when, whether it's tariffs or other foreign policy matters, he'll threaten something and then oftentimes look for an off-ramp right at the last minute.

So, you know, his critics call this the taco.

Trump always chickens out.

And their theory is...

The markets shouldn't get too worried because he's not going to end up doing something that's going to have dramatic impacts on, you know, the stock prices or gas prices.

But there are times when he does it, when he does go into Venezuela, when he does bomb Iran.

And so he always does have this element of keeping people, everyone off guard and on their toes.

And so here we were again.

Great question, and you'll get a different answer based on who you ask.

So in the White House's view and in the view of President Trump's supporters, you have to speak the Iranians' language, right?

You have to threaten to destroy their civilization because that's the language they speak.

They're always threatening to destroy Israel or death to the United States.

So if you want to get their attention, you have to speak their language.