Dave Smith
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So in other words, no, no, you didn't get that.
And look, man, I mean, there's a whole lot of interesting stuff here about what, look, there's, I'll say this almost like before maybe we wrap up here, I'll say this and then you can have the last word, Rob, but there is something where
One of the possibilities that's beginning to emerge here, right, is that the Iranians are describing the deal as something very different than what the Americans are describing it as right now.
As we pointed out on the last show, and I think was implicit in this show, even what they're describing, forget what the difference is, what they agree on is essentially the
in admission that we lost this war, but there's still, now it's possible that the language of the memorandum of understanding is going to be somewhat vague on some of this stuff.
Like, even as you hear JD Vance describe it, you're like, this all sounds very vague.
And then you're going to be in this area where both sides can claim for the next 60 days that they're not following through.
Then who knows, Rob, we could get,
We may not get this memorandum signed.
We might get 30 days into this and Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz again because Israel's bombing Lebanon or because they say the Americans aren't giving them access to the money or who, you know, so many questions.
The one thing that's clear is that we never should have launched this goddamn war and we lost it.