Jonathan Chait
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Well, I mean, we've got the two.
We've got Uday and Kusei already, you know, doing deals.
What is the actual motive?
Because on the surface, motives are so comically transparent.
They claimed to have destroyed the Iranian nuclear program.
They claim, in fact, that anyone who said that it wasn't completely destroyed forever was a fake news liar.
So now we've got to redistroy the Iranian nuclear program that we had already permanently destroyed.
So we know that they're lying, but what is the actual reason?
It's really hard to say other than – so there's post-Venezuela and then Trump deciding he's never going to win a Nobel Peace Prize, so he might as well go for the war prizes.
Like I've got a new I've got a new tool.
Like I've got a new thing I could do.
I could do it without Congress.
So like, you know, tariffs were one.