David French

Iran, which is an Islamic revolutionary regime, that one of the ways it cemented itself in Iran was by fighting a war with Iraq in such total disregard of the lives of its own citizens

confronting American power, and we can hit them and we can hit them and we can hit them, and the true believers are still gonna believe.

And that is something that everyone who's fought in the war on terror really understands.

We really get it.

We know it in our DNA that we're dealing with an enemy that really believes.

And then Trump here is confronting this, and I feel like it's just kind of doesn't compute to him.

And you see it in some of this temper tantrum that he's pitching over, why are they closing the Strait?

We won.

Like, what are they doing?

He's making the very fundamental mistake that so many war leaders make, which is totally misunderstanding the mind of the enemy.

You know, I'm so glad you brought up that word, permanent-ish, which should be a word if it's not.

But I think this is really important for people to understand is that he is breaking things you can't fix just within the next election.

And one of the things he's breaking is our relationship with our NATO allies.

Because think of it from this standpoint.

If you're a defense planner, defense planners plan on the 20 to 25 to sometimes 30, 40 year time horizons.

And so if you're planning,

Can you count on the United States of America?

If you know, even if Trump loses, you're one election away from another Trump-like figure.

You would need a generation of rejection of Trump-like figures before you could reincorporate a consistent America into your defense planning.

Because the one thing you know, it's not in the United States, it's not just Trump.