Jeremy Scahill

He couldn't care less about that right now.

He's saying we can make a deal with a religious person.

I like religious people.

The leader should be internal and eternal is what, you know, what Trump said.

And he's referencing Venezuela, whereas Netanyahu is like, wait a minute.

This person was it was it was the local dog catcher.

Assassinate them.

You know, senior officials, they'll assassinate everybody because Israel isn't interested in anything except smashing Iran into a million pieces.

So once again, we've been led down this road where we're in this imperial war.

Trump has painted himself into a corner.

You know, the drinking buddy, frat guy, Pete Hegseth, who's masquerading as the war secretary, every day is out there saying, I'm so great, we're winning, we're winning, we're winning.

He's, you know, it's like anytime you're winning, when you have to tell everyone you're winning, you're probably not actually winning.

This is a long-winded way of directly answering you, which is they don't have an off-ramp right now.

And so what they're doing is heinous.

They are doubling, tripling, quadrupling down on just massively bombing Iran.

and it's not gonna work.

The Iranians are not gonna say, okay, well, this bomb did it, we surrender now.

They've killed off so many people that actually would have had the capacity for diplomacy, and the people that are now coming into place in Iran are people that have watched their colleagues be killed, killed, killed,

and they are not going to make those mistakes.

If they're going to die, they're going to go down fighting.