Dave Smith

They are desperately trying to get out of this.

Like, please find us a way that we can save face, but end this thing.

We can't go up the escalation ladder anymore.

Every time they try, they're like, oh, even just now.

Right.

They tried with this with escalation in the Strait of Hormuz.

And the Iranians start bombing the United Arab Emirates.

And I'm like, God damn it.

All right, we'll call that off.

Donald Trump threatens bridge and power plant day.

They go, okay, we're taking out desalination plants.

He goes, oh, all right, damn it.

Can't do that.

We're looking for something.

So Donald Trump wants to make a deal with this regime to get out of this war, and Israel wants to overthrow this regime.

That's not just like, hey, sometimes we have some slightly different goals.

This is like you're trying to save the patient and the other guy's trying to murder the patient.

You can't work together on that then.

Your goals are diametrically opposed.

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