Karim Sadjadpour

Or...

It's harmony, the glue that holds them together, and they eventually disband.

And the honest answer to that is that we don't know.

And we don't know, Scott, because I don't think they know.

We oftentimes underestimate the extent to which when people are put in these crisis situations, you oftentimes don't know how you're going to react.

Every person is making mental calculations.

And this is a gamble, and it could go in multiple directions.

And again, I think President Trump feels probably pretty good about his odds.

I think the Iranian people would welcome that gamble from the United States.

But other countries in the region are concerned about the blowback against them.

You're talking about last summer?

Yeah, so it depends what your metric is.

I mean, President Trump had said that he had obliterated Iran's nuclear program, and it was end of story.

You know, the program was done for.

Now he's saying that we need to get a nuclear deal with them.

And his envoy, Steve Witkoff, recently said that Iran is perhaps weeks away from weapons grade uranium, which it's not really clear that I think they don't actually have a great grasp of the issues that they are.

tasked with negotiating.

So, you know, oftentimes their language is a little bit money, but there is a tension there because, you know, he declared success, the program was obliterated, and now the question is, well, why are we negotiating, wanting to negotiate with Iran over its nuclear program if we already obliterated it?

And, you know, here my view is that what's lacking here is

One of the strategies that Ronald Reagan applied to the Soviet Union, which is, if you go back and read Reagan's speeches, the language was quite simple.