Lori Siegel

But the biggest mistake that Trump has made is that he has made it so that the ground that could be laid for any negotiation is gone.

They can never actually trust our word.

They can't trust Witkoff.

They've been bombed twice.

And this is why when that happened, I remember thinking, I go, how are we ever going to be able to make a deal in the future with Russia, with Ukraine, with China, with anyone?

If you're going to bomb somebody other than to cover

of diplomacy.

And so you can see the consequences of his actions.

And he's trying to work in a vacuum and not in the context now fully of how he has behaved in his administration.

That's the prison that he has locked himself into, locked all of us into.

That's the tragedy of it.

This is very Vietnam-esque.

This is exactly what they said before the Tet Offensive.

They were like, oh, well, we have Operation Rolling Thunder.

But, you know, people really should go and study Rolling Thunder.

Rolling Thunder had the exact same escalation logic.

We're going to go in.

We're going to bomb.

And then every time that they don't back down, we're going to do a little bit more, and then we're going to do a little bit more, and then we're going to do a little bit more.

And the entire time, they're telling the American public, hey, what we've done, we've degraded 10,000 heck takers or whatever.