Jon Lovett

And they said, no, thank you.

We'll continue to not be part of this war we weren't consulted on and want nothing to do with, especially after you've been bullying us for a year.

And then Trump said, actually, we don't need you because it's going so well.

And then he saw the markets tank and is now trying to end it this way.

And yeah, he's not in control of events and he wants to be in control of events, but really there's no, I saw a piece of analysis about this, which is it's actually ironically a place where there's not much nuance.

Either the Strait of Hormuz is open or it's not.

If it's not, you have a huge set of knock on consequences that Trump is not able to solve.

He has to get it open.

Iran has a say in whether or not it's open.

And that's what puts him in this position.

And you can kill a bunch of leaders over and over and you could create opportunities for promotion.

but it doesn't deal with the underlying problem.

Right.

And by the way, 86-year-olds tend to die on their own accord and create power vacuums that are not made by the United States.

I don't totally understand how this brings in the art of jujitsu and who's doing jujitsu.

I guess it's that the idea being that if you remove the sanctions, you lower the price of oil and therefore lower the amount of money Iran gets, but Iran was currently getting $0.

So I think 14 billion is, as far, I'm not, I haven't done math.

You know, Treasury Secretary.

Right, but $14 billion is more than $0.

For a nuclear deal.