Krystal Ball

Come on, Eli.

And...

So we'll keep trying to make that happen.

But they're furious that Trump said Syria might be a better—Syria might have a better or might be a better protector of Lebanon or a guarantor of peace to some extent in Lebanon than Israel.

That is infuriating, infuriating Trump's biggest supporters.

The al-Qaeda guy cares more about civilian casualties.

It's a realist perspective, though, right?

Like he's saying, here you have a country that is able to—

relate to this.

We can say it's dumb, but these are the same people who were saying Trump was a genius for the last two months.

So which is it?

Also, Syria is not going to do this, by the way, because Syria would rather have Israel fighting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon than bombing Damascus.

And they continue to occupy Golan Heights and a lot of area north of that.

They're pushing very close to Damascus.

So

The second that al-Shara went in and took care of Hezbollah, which of course they can't remotely do, but let's say they did, then Israel would just start bombing Damascus.

So it's interesting that even though Assad and al-Shara are completely ideologically different,

and were at war with each other, and that Israel saw al-Shara coming in as advantageous compared to Assad because Assad was part of the axis of resistance, he has the same geostrategic logic.

as Assad did to kind of allow either, and Hamas has been pointing this out at Dropside, either by neglect or by design, the supply lines between Iran and Hezbollah seem intact.

Because you're seeing drone technology and other military equipment appearing in southern Lebanon that Iran only recently developed, which means it's getting from Iran