Jon Lovett

They have no confidence that Trump won't change his mind in a couple months and resume bombing if they accept a deal.

They have no confidence that Israel won't bomb Iran if it views it in its interest, even if there is a deal.

So just like the kind of the way in which we're like stuck in this morass because Trump went into this so half-cocked is just, it's...

It's just sort of gruesome, and it's, when you step back and look at it.

Yeah, that's the part that's sort of like chilling about where we're at because we're in this sort of stalemate in which Trump looks like a loser.

He can try to declare victory, but there'll still be the ongoing cost of us having kind of shown our might and Iran remaining in power and now controlling the Strait of Hormuz.

Or there's escalation and we've already done, we've already, you know,

launched a massive campaign against iran and the regime held together what escalation looks like how far they'd have to go because you the next the next escalation is toward the regime collapsing and that's a combination of economic pressure to to squeeze them that's more an intense uh military action

And like it all.

And while that is happening, even if it were to happen relatively quickly, you're still talking about Iran unloading whatever it is it's willing to do in the Gulf.

And so you're just there are terrible options in front of America's worst person.

Yeah, and by the way, you also killed his father, I guess.

And there's no gold toilet for him.

There was something someone said once a long time ago, which is like, if someone is willing to fight you, it means they have less to lose.

And I don't think Trump ever learned that because I don't think he's ever been in a real fight.

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