Ian Bremmer

The way Israel is fighting the war in Gaza, I supported that war, but there was no doubt that there was a very political calculated response for many capitals in the Sunni Gulf.

I do not think that is the case now.

And if that has durability, if that has a shelf life after this war...

I'm not so sure we're going to look at this as Israel so isolated.

The last thing I'll say here is Walter Russell Mead has a very thoughtful piece in the Wall Street Journal today that like he said what I've been thinking.

So even though I was thinking it, I do want to give him credit.

He basically said the hawks and the doves both got this wrong.

OK, he says the hawks underestimated how hard it would be.

The Iran hawks.

The Iran doves overestimated how accommodating Iran, the regime, would be if we just worked with them in mechanisms like negotiations and the JCPOA.

And the wake-up call, as I said at the beginning, for the Iran doves is there's no accommodation with Iran.

So we're at war with Iran.

Think Iran.

Everyone basically understands that, even if not everyone for political reasons wants to say it out loud.

We're in war with Iran.

It's a matter of when that war happens or whether it goes on and then off and then on again, how we fight the war, how we explain the war.

But I don't think anyone could have any illusions that we are at war with Iran.

And this war revealed it.

It's funny because you could say the same thing about Russia, and yet Trump clearly disagrees and has acted in ways that shows he disagrees for reasons that he thinks are aligned with America First, which is an important point that I want to make.

But let me address the first two first, which is that, you know, you said that it's only 25 days and so the American people should show patience.