Jesse Waters
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I mean, clearly there's not a lot of hands being raised in order to essentially like in the line to the execution guillotine.
But I think what's interesting is as sort of the naysayers and as always the libs talking about the gap of alignment here, I think it's narrower than people think.
And I think it's real, but it's not decisive.
And from what I understand, diplomacy at this level, it's not about aligning endpoints.
It's about sort of rationing your concessions.
And the most important line in that was about the cost of war, essentially.
like whether each side, when they decide what is the point at which the cost becomes too high to bear, we can keep going all day and all night, right?
That's our biggest leveraging tool, that our commander-in-chief is flexible and that we have the military all day, all night.
We will keep killing everyone if they keep threatening.
And I think the whole point about that 15-point plan is that it's deferring the hardest issues and it's creating political wins on both sides.
This is not about obviously appeasing the Islamic Republic in any way, but it's about getting them, if they want, to save a little bit of face, while for us saying, yeah, we're getting everything that we need, everything that we want.
And if you want to say, sure, the United States answered some of our concessions, feel free.
But we are no matter what protecting American interests.
And I think we are well on our way to doing so.
And as Caroline keeps saying, we're doing it expeditiously way sooner than anyone predicted and way sooner than the White House predicted.