John Kiriakou

The complaints are that they were not consulted as allies.

They were just sort of brought along.

And I was in Europe a couple of weeks ago and a couple of weeks before that, and I heard the same complaints that they weren't consulted.

The only apparent consultation that was taking place was with the Israelis.

And the Israelis really, really wanted this to get done.

At the very least, you're going to want political cover.

You're also going to want to give them an opportunity to come up with plan B for their, let's say, oil or gas needs.

or transportation issues.

You don't want them to be taken by surprise because they're gonna resent you in the end.

And we didn't do that.

And they resent us.

I'll give you an example.

I was in Ireland two weeks ago.

And at the hotel, they told me I was probably gonna have to leave extra early for the airport because they were expecting the largest demonstration in Irish history ever.

which took place the next morning.

And it was all because of home heating oil prices and gasoline prices.

We didn't consult with the Irish or the British or anybody else before launching this thing.

They were already having problems because of the cutoff of home heating oil coming from Russia because of the Ukraine war.

And then this was just doubly difficult for them.

And so gas was, we figured it out, gas was $12 and a half a gallon