Emily Maitlis

Recent example, Afghanistan.

Recent example.

You can go back further.

And Donald Trump did when he gave an interview to meet the press with Kristen Welker at the weekend.

What's so interesting in listening to that clip is clearly Donald Trump thinks, I should have won by now.

I've destroyed their Navy.

I've destroyed their radar stations.

I've destroyed their anti-aircraft batteries.

Why haven't I won?

And he hasn't.

The fact of the matter is that, you know, Iran had its missiles in bunkers squirreled away, its launchers in missiles squirreled away.

It has still got command and control.

And yeah, it's true.

Iran hasn't got a navy, but it doesn't need much of a navy.

to keep the Strait of Hormuz blocked.

It doesn't need much of an air force to be able to fire ballistic missiles at Israel.

And I think that there's something else there as well, that Donald Trump, you know, he can't compute that he hasn't won this war.

And of course, yeah, it's true that compared to Vietnam or Iraq or Afghanistan, you haven't seen loads of body bags,

being flown back to America of young American servicemen and women killed on the front line.

That is absolutely true.