Ian Bremmer

I mean, all these things.

It's very hard for the Americans to make that assessment of the Iranians today.

Now, America, of course, is vastly more powerful than Iran.

And so in principle, that should give the Americans a lot more leverage.

And yet the Iranians are showing that they are willing and capable of taking a lot more pain.

150 of their leaders have been assassinated.

No American leaders have been assassinated.

No Israeli leaders have been assassinated.

So the Iranians are taking a lot more damage.

They've got over a million people displaced.

They've got well over a thousand dead, Americans, 13.

So, I mean, the Iranians are clearly showing that they are capable of tolerating a lot more pain than the Americans had expected.

They're also showing that their military capacity at this point is much greater than the military planners in the U.S.

believe.

And here, Scott, I'm not talking about what Trump thought, having ignored what a lot of his military planners were telling him.

I'm actually talking about the military planners.

They are very surprised.

CENTCOM is very surprised that in the third month of this war, that the Iranians still have over 50% of their ballistic missile capacity intact.

They're very surprised that after strikes on launch pads, that in some cases, the Iranians were able to dig them out and relaunch within 24 hours.

They're very surprised by that.