Ivo Daalder
speaker
102 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Ivo Daalder’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes, and yes, also on putting more escalation options into the hopper.
The problem here seems to be that the president is kind of losing the thread about what it is that we're trying to achieve here.
Why did we go to war in the first place?
All the focus is now on opening up the Strait of Hormuz.
Of course, the Strait of Hormuz was open on February 28th when the bombing started.
It was a consequence of the bombing.
It was a foreseeable consequence of the bombing.
But somehow the president and his advisors didn't do the planning and didn't take into account the need to ensure that the Strait was going to be open.
So we're in a new ballgame.
And we're trying to figure out a way – the president is trying to figure out a way to get out of it.
And it is through some negotiated solution because other than occupying Iran and taking over the government and having a government that is –
more conducive to American persuasion, it's got to be a deal.
Some deal has to be struck in which Iran agrees to no longer threaten shipping through the Strait.
And right now, the tables seem to be turned to some extent where Iran holds, to use the president's favorite phrase, the cards.
Iran is the one that is keeping the Strait closed.
It is opening it up for those who are willing to pay it.
sufficient amount of money or its friends, but it's keeping the straight clothes to those it doesn't like.
And the president is running out of options to figure out how to do this militarily, threatening, in my view, in order to see if we can get a deal that at least achieves some of the objectives that were set when we started the bombing campaign back four weeks ago now.
Yeah, it's not a surprise, but apparently it was a surprise for the president of the United States who decided to engage in a second bombing campaign.
Remember, he already did so in June of 2025 when he said he obliterated the nuclear program.
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