Lori Siegel

And then second, on Donald Trump, it would actually take genuinely the act of supreme courage to restrain now all of the Israeli action for forever, for now and forever, to make sure that we're not going to let that happen and that we're actually going to take this massive political hit, which we know that we are.

where it's better in the long run to just say, enough.

We're not doing this anymore.

We're gonna sign a deal.

But all of the bellicosity, moving the troops, the easy decision from Donald Trump's perspective right now is to do what every wartime leader has always done, escalate to deescalate.

break the back of the enemy, and then what we'll do is we'll make a deal on the other side.

For the Iranians, it's very similar.

They're like, well, we haven't even hit oil at 200 yet.

We haven't made them feel the pain.

We need to feel the pain.

Ultimately, this is a power mismatch.

And what it means, though, is that the actual power of the U.S.

empire is going to have to fully get involved, ground troops.

And even then, remember, we're only talking about a couple thousand ground troops right now.

This could be tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands.

That's how it works.

It starts with a few.

Oh, and then 20 guys get killed.

Well, we have to avenge their death.

And now we're on.