Eric Swalwell

We're going to de-escalate now.

He basically can still de-escalate and tell the local parties, Israel and the Arab states,

You guys are going to have to figure it out now.

We've done everything we can to stymie and contain the Iranians and we're going to have to work out a new deal.

If I were him again, I would pivot.

I would try to get the Russians who are partners with the Iranians but also want to do business deals with the United States.

There is a chance here he could go to Moscow and flip the whole script and say, I'm going to use the Russians to get a deal on the Iranian problem.

I'm going to use the Russians to get a deal on the European problem.

I'm going to use the Russians to get a deal on the problems with North Korea and China.

There is still a pathway forward.

It doesn't seem clear, but it's there.

But he's got to feel his way out of this.

And if he, at the end of the blockade, the counter blockade,

if he is convinced to land troops then it's all over then we're truly in you know we're not in a regional war we're probably in the very very deep you know world war three uh because it's going to suck the oxygen out of everything and it's going to become all-consuming

So my hope is that the president, he's obviously going to do the counter blockade for a period of time.

My hope is he doesn't really do it seriously.

And then he just says, okay, I'm going to Moscow.

I'm going to work with Putin.

We're going to figure out a way out of this.

I'm going to work with, with whoever I need to, to mitigate this thing and ratchet it down.