Jessica Tarlov

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situation, at least for the ceasefire.

And it gives them two weeks to get whatever they need from the Russians and the Chinese so that they can go right back at it because the Iranians were fine with what was going on.

I mean, they controlled the Strait and we were wasting tons of munitions on them and they seem to be continuing to rebuild.

I mean, they were firing more missiles on a daily basis than when it started.

So that was a bit of a word vomit on it.

But this is not good.

I mean, putting aside, hopefully there are no protesters or killings in the streets that happened beyond what we saw in Minneapolis, tragically, I think you're spot on there.

And I'm thinking back to how the Canadians and the French went right to the Chinese when we did Liberation Day and started with our insane tariffs, where they said, OK, we'll find a workaround because like

you're not a reliable partner.

And it's interesting because a lot of Trump's biggest supporters when it came to his foreign policy said that this madman thing was a strength, right?

That his unpredictability, that he might be someone just wild enough, right, to do X, Y, or Z things.

I'm not sure about wipe out an entire civilization with 90 million people there, but in general, the loose cannon thing was something that people thought was a strength.

Iran called our bluff to a degree that I don't think people even believe that he's a madman anymore.

I think they just think that he's weak and that you control him on social media however you want.

I mean, what the Iranians, you know, from every embassy across the globe have been doing in creating these AI slop videos where they pick up every single meme and narrative and criticism that exists of this administration and

then put it into these videos that you know the administration, our administration is consuming and getting upset about, I think has been an incredibly important tool for them because they have reshaped the narrative as a result.

And they have turned a lot of people who were maybe skeptical or maybe not the biggest supporters, but

took a chance on Trump in 2024, let's say, or bought into the idea that Iran is this existential threat to us, that you can't have a nuclear Iran.

And now they're looking at it and saying, we're just a laughingstock and a laughingstock that's standing up there saying constantly that this is, you know, divine providence that all of this is happening.