Jon Lovett

Hot Iranian?

Hot Iranian section, yeah.

The administration has gotten several Iranian generals up to like 3,000 or 4,000 degrees.

Jesus.

Tough.

So there's that.

Yes.

Look, what an extraordinary couple of weeks this has been.

First, a war launched without Congress, without clear goals, goals that evolved over the basically over the course of that weekend.

They didn't really land on if there's one set of goals that kind of landed on repeatedly.

It's the Rubio version, which is no nuclear capabilities to destroy the Navy, etc.,

But they had talked about regime change, the regime's inability to project power.

Then they closed the Strait of Hormuz, at which point Trump began begging our allies to join the fight after the fight had already begun.

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.