Michael Weiss

That's not in the offing.

And I also don't see how you do it with regime preservation plus decapitation, you know, assassinate key leadership and then, you know,

Look, everything that this guy does, it's like the South Park episode with the underwear gnomes.

You know, steal the underwear is step one.

Step three is profits.

But step two is a question mark.

Nobody has step two for anything.

Anything.

I mean, so your guess is as good as mine.

Maybe the Israelis have something, a card up their sleeve.

Maybe they've recruited somebody.

That's what I was just going to say.

they're not interested in democracy and human rights in Iran.

I mean, you know, Moshe Dayan put it best, I think.

He said, Israel doesn't have a foreign policy.

It has a defense policy, right?

And that's pretty much persisted, I think, for many decades.

For them, all that would matter would be Iran no longer poses a threat to Israel's existence or to its security, whether through missiles, a nuclear weapon in the future, or again, these proxies and militias that have been assembled.

This is sort of the long tail of the post-October 7th era in the region.

For them, this is still, you know, this is perhaps the last and final conflict to settle all accounts.