Ian Bremmer
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In fact, the only surprise is whether it was going to be 6-3 or 9-0.
6-3 is not a surprise precisely because we've seen many instances where the law was equally clear against Biden, where it was 6-3 in the other direction.
All of these, you know, major questions, issues that Biden was pushing up against illegally and the Supreme Court whacked him down.
But the most liberal appointees chose not to align with the majority.
That's an unfortunate reality of some degree of politicization of the Supreme Court justices, but ultimately doesn't undermine the institution in my view.
It's, you know, has elements of correctness.
You know, Imoti refused to give Trump credit for bringing about the ceasefire.
In reality, he and his administration, particularly Marco Rubio, also J.D.
Vance at the margins, played a significant role, not unilaterally, but played a significant role in helping to get those two sides to ceasefire.
It is unfortunate that Modi gave him no credit.
It is ludicrous that the Pakistani prime minister says he should get the peace prize, but the reality is somewhere in between.
Armenian, Azerbaijan, he has advanced the cause of peace, but the two sides were not actually fighting when he got engaged.
It's a lot easier to end a war when they're not fighting.
The case of Israel and Gaza, I give Trump a lot more credit.
in resolving that conflict to a degree than under Biden.
We actually have a US-led peace plan that got Security Council resolution approval.
The Russians and Chinese abstained.
Everyone else voted in favor.
All of the Gulf states and the countries in the region favored it.
Trump facilitated the release of all of the hostages, both living and remains, and has been able to move ahead a ceasefire that has not held perfectly but has held more or less with humanitarian restrictions of aid now being largely ended.