Dr. Janice Stein
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Well, let me say, you know, I find Trump's statements on this incredible.
But there is a bigger story here.
The same story is true in Asia, that the South Koreans came to the Biden administration and said, we want a nuclear weapon.
And Biden said, oh, no, that's not a good idea.
Don't do that.
And tightened the American South Korean, the commitments that the United States made to South Korea.
Biggest fear that the United States has had since John F. Kennedy is that there would be widespread proliferation of nuclear weapons.
And in a funny way, the Russians and the Americans agreed on that.
That's one of the big things they didn't.
That's all.
You know, JFK, and we all come back to it, JFK predicted that there would be 50 nuclear weapon states by the time we got to the next century, which for him was 40 years away.
They're nine.
Far less than anybody thought because the United States really put its shoulder to the wheel on this one and tried to deal with the security concerns of those states that lived in the neighborhood of a proliferator.
So it's not a new problem is what I'm trying to say.
Trump himself, utterly incredible.
It was fully open before this war started.
Iran closed.
And, you know, again, even the Iranians say we have our nuclear weapon now.
It was there in plain sight.
It's the Strait of Hormuz.