Krystal Ball

And I think the entire world, including me, is just fine to go along with that.

Be like, okay, yeah, actually, let's just watch this drama unfold between Trump and Netanyahu.

Okay, yes, Trump deserves humiliation, but what's the point?

He's actually incapable of it anyway.

Well, yeah, that's an important caveat, to be fair.

Now, I guess from our vantage point, there may be something if, you know, we look at February 27th and we say, what's going to happen by mid-June or by September when the 60 days has elapsed is the United States will be facilitating economic development in Iran and treating it as a rational actor.

instead of continuing the Lindsey Graham line about the JCPOA from 2015 and acting like that's gospel, now you have a United States that is in sort of rational negotiations that treats Iran as a rational actor with its own interests.

And there's going to be economic development in a country that could obviously use some economic development.

Maybe then you could say there's a sick silver lining, but I don't have any confidence that's actually what's going to come to pass whatsoever.

And I will say of the three countries

Israel, the United States, and Iran, which one acted with any rationality over the past year?

Was it Donald Trump?

Was not Donald Trump.

Was it Donald Trump?

Yeah, I mean, that's the thing.

Good we got out of the war.

I'm glad.

13 American troops died for this, by the way, which uses the word status quo however many times.

I should have controlled after that.

Billions of dollars, and we're here.