David French

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The Opinions · ‘Platner Is Vile.’ McConnell Is Missing. Welcome to American Politics. · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

Exposure is the word of the week for me.

Well, yeah.

So we had more information about Graham Platner that is changing the American political landscape, putting the Senate, you know, casting the Senate into even more doubt as to how this is going to all unfold.

And also, the Wall Street Journal had some very interesting series of articles about the way in which the rest of the world is handling Donald Trump.

And it really sort of exposed the extent to which the rest of the world is making this determination that they cannot count on the United States anymore and sort of laid bare that they just don't trust us.

They just don't trust us, maybe for reasons that we might talk about here in a few minutes.

Okay, okay.

Yeah.

So there was an irreconcilable tension at the heart of the Iran deal that was this.

How do you end a war where both sides can declare victory?

And

And this became a real issue after this initial memorandum of understanding, which was, by the way, very favorable to Iran, very favorable to Iran, the original ceasefire deal.

It became very clear to me that there was absolutely no way

that Donald Trump could spin the resolution of the conflict as a victory.

He was going to try to do it.

And it was also very clear to me that there was actually not a meeting of the minds on what Iran was supposed to do and how Iran was going to conduct itself.

And I don't think Iran has ever, since the start of the war,

clearly and unequivocally a promise to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the initial ceasefire.

It was supposed to reopen the Strait.

It did not.

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