Ian Bremmer

But he also might back down.

And I think it's wholly plausible that he will back down as he has with the Chinese, because he understands that ultimately declaring a win is better than what ends up following from all this.

I don't have a strong I certainly don't have a crystal ball.

And I agree completely with Dan that ultimately Trump is keeping his own counsel on this and

It's not going to be what JD or Marco or Radcliffe come in and tell him or suggest.

And what they suggest will only be a piece of what they're telling their people they're going to suggest because with Trump, they're like, yes, sir.

How high, sir.

But I do worry that even though

Iran's capabilities have been seriously degraded, there are other big issues that will persist on the back of where we're likely to be coming out of all of this.

So, just a couple things in response, Dean.

One, you mentioned a second time the deployment of ground forces, or troops.

I just think we should establish, just for the audience, what you and I are talking about when we refer to these troops.

Because I think people hear this now and they think Iraq...

you know, 2003, 2004, and beyond.

And it is not that.

It is not that, right?

Right.

I mean, yeah, exactly.

So in the lead up to the Iraq war, we had the equivalent of the naval and air power assets that we have now in the region for this war.

But the one other thing we had in the lead up to the Iraq war was a quarter of a million troops.