Dave Lawler
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844 appearances
7 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 13 Apr
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If they can get a deal to, and again, this is back to status quo ante, but if they can get Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a ceasefire, Trump keeps out the possibility that if they move to take that uranium, we could strike them again in future.
So we've got that in a box and we've taken out their Navy and Air Force and missiles, et cetera.
That would be how he would
claim victory.
I'm not sure that every American would be convinced that that is victory.
I think it's a lot harder if the strait remains closed, right?
I mean, you have a massive economic problem that did not exist before the war, that exists as a result of the war, and then the U.S.
pulls out, leaves it up to our allies to solve it, as Trump has said he might do, and then still tries to claim that this was all
a great thing and we have resolved it successfully.
I think, again, if the Strait remains closed, it's very difficult to see how Trump makes a compelling case that the U.S.
has entirely succeeded in this war.
Yeah, I mean, Don, we live in a reality where still the polling for the war is negative, but the vast majority of people who voted for Trump think it's fine, and the vast majority of people who didn't vote for Trump think it's terrible, and that would be the case.
I mean, you could have a war that was entirely disastrous, thousands of Americans dead, and you might still see most people who voted for Trump saying it's great.
You could have a war where
The regime bowed down and decided to become a pro-American vassal state.
And you'd still have people who oppose Trump saying it's not great.
I think for those voters in the middle who are who can be persuaded one way or the other, there is this question of, as you said, if we say Iran was moving toward a nuclear weapon, they can never have a nuclear weapon and we have prevented it.
With this operation, well, Iran still has a whole lot of highly enriched uranium that's sitting underground right now that was buried by strikes.
And Trump has talked behind the scenes about the possibility of an operation to go and get it.
But that would be an enormous risk.
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