Ian Bremmer

And by the way, we don't have the ground troops ready to go for all of the military options you're thinking about.

And they won't be in place until like April 6th, 7th anyway, the latest being sent from San Francisco.

And I have no idea how Trump's going to respond to that.

But the fact that that conversation is happening implies that there is more scope for at least calming this down for now, even if we're very, very far from a potential ceasefire.

So I think that that's what I'm watching very carefully now, whether they end up having conversations in Pakistan, which look increasingly likely at this point.

who is directly involved.

I suspect it would be the foreign minister, not Kalabov.

It'd be too risky for him to actually go and leave.

But we'll see.

We'll see where it goes.

It is definitely moving very fast.

And obviously the danger for the global economy is really high.

A lot higher than I think people have been presuming over the past weeks.

And Trump is going to have to deal with that.

He's going to have to deal with the consequences.

This is going to be from a domestic perspective.

This is going to be, I think, unpopular, irrespective of what the outcome is in the next few days and weeks, given that there isn't regime change and Americans are going to be paying for it economically at home.

Well, I've been seeing similar reports as Ian on different proposals that are being presented to President Trump.

I would caution, counsel healthy skepticism about any of these reports.

Simply to say, I'm not saying there aren't different people proposing different things to Trump.