Jeremy Scahill
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kindergarten-level understanding of the world.
And that comes out, too, when he's like, oh, maybe me and the Ayatollah are going to control the Strait of Hormuz together.
The Iranians put out a meme, did you see this, in response, Sagar, that was like, you know, it was like a car where you have the normal steering wheel and then you have the kid's steering wheel there that obviously doesn't do anything, where it's like, oh, he's pretending to drive the car, et cetera.
I mean, just complete mockery of this man because...
The whole thing is so stupid and so insane.
But the bottom line is today, you know, Trump is actually not really in a position to say when this war ends or how it ends.
That is on Iran and it's on Israel.
He has ceded so much control to the Israelis that, you know, if even if he wants to end the war today and I think it's possible he does want to end the war today.
The Iranians get a say, and the Israelis, because of our weakness and our desire, our decision to cede so much of our foreign policy to them, they get a say as well.
And that's why this thing is such an incredible, intractable mess heading towards quagmire.
Exactly.
Yeah, well, I mean, UAE, at this point, they almost have to get some sort of regime change.
I know, that's what I'm saying.
They're screwed.
Already their brand, Dubai's brand, Abu Dhabi's brand as like, you know, these playgrounds for the rich and, you know, almost like a little car van from the rest of the tunnels of the region.
That's dead.
It's over.
We've all seen the videos of like your airport on fire and, you know, bombs landing or drones hitting luxury high-rise buildings.
Who of our global elite is going to choose Dubai as their location now?
And that's their whole thing.