John J. Mearsheimer

And he's been really playing hardball with the Israelis in ways that we've not seen before.

And you can tell that Bibi Netanyahu understands this.

He understands that Trump is desperate and that Trump is putting real pressure on him.

Now, Netanyahu has resisted to a large extent, not completely, but to a large extent up to now.

But I would maintain that what's likely to happen as we move forward is that that international economy is going to continue to put pressure on Trump.

And because he can't put pressure on the Iranians who are in the driver's seat, he's going to put pressure on the Israelis in ways that he has never done before.

So the question you have to ask yourself is what is this growing conflict between the United States, and in particular Donald Trump, and Benjamin Netanyahu going to look like moving forward?

Let me ask you a question.

What's the alternative?

Even there, what are you going to do?

Let's just assume that there's some incident somewhere that incentivizes us to really crush Iran.

How do we do that?

You want to understand that we cannot do it with boots on the ground.

That's out, number one.

Number two, in terms of restarting the air war, been there, tried that, did not work out very well.

Furthermore, we used up huge amounts of our precious weaponry, right?

That's another one of the reasons Trump doesn't want to go back to the air war, right?

So what are we going to do?

Use nuclear weapons against Iran?

I don't think so, right?