Jon Favreau

Hundreds of civilians have died, women, children, medics.

And I guess finally Trump called Bibi and said, like, you've got to pursue some kind of diplomatic negotiations with the Lebanese government, which had been trying to disarm Hezbollah before this latest war and had been also trying to negotiate since the war.

Israel began bombing them, have been trying to negotiate with the Israelis some kind of a diplomatic solution because so many Lebanese who have nothing to do with Hezbollah are dying in this war and millions have been displaced.

So I guess Trump has got Bibi to agree to pursue some kind of diplomatic negotiations, though Netanyahu also said there will be no ceasefire while negotiations go on.

And the Iranians are saying like,

Absolutely not.

We don't want to negotiate if this is happening.

Who knows if they'll stick with that or not.

But that's sort of where we are right now.

And, you know, he also doesn't understand or maybe doesn't care like what Netanyahu's thought process is on this, which is not dissimilar to his thought process in Gaza, which is they're not just like taking out senior Hezbollah commanders.

They are taking out like mid-level Hezbollah, you know, operatives who are embedding themselves in civilian populations.

The Israelis don't seem to care.

They're bombing the civilian populations anyway.

They are basically occupying

southern Lebanon at this point and they may not have and it doesn't seem like they want to give it up just like they are occupying Gaza and basically their view is we're just going to keep pushing the boundaries outward from Israel and we're going to keep calling them buffer zones but what they really are is just taking land and occupying more land thinking that somehow this is going to be enough to eradicate Hezbollah or Hamas or any of the other terrorist groups they think are threats.

and it continues to be proven wrong over and over and over again.

And I wouldn't expect Trump to understand that, but maybe someone in the government might.

So in the last few days, Trump has turned his attention toward another sworn enemy of the United States, NATO.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the White House is considering a plan to punish NATO for not going along with Trump and Netanyahu's war by removing US troops

from NATO countries.