Michael Weiss

Exactly.

So look, I mean, my read of this is we have a very interesting kind of split.

You get a lot of pro-Israel, MAGA-adjacent, MAGA-curious types in the U.S.

saying, rah, rah, sis, boom, bah, we won.

Trump really knocked them down and vitiated this terrible theocratic regime to the point where they're now willing to put up or even discuss things that they hadn't before.

Israeli security hawks.

who I think nobody could consider to be uninterested in the state of Iran or what kind of future threat it might pose to Israel or the neighborhood, are in, shall we say, maybe not high dudgeon, but they're a little more depressed about the situation.

They don't see this as a stunning situation.

Because I think they, too, realize that Netanyahu and Mossad chief David Barnea thought this was going to be kind of an easy operation.

They legitimately sold Trump, if you believe this New York Times deep dive that came out a few days ago.

on the idea that you go in, you start pounding them from the air, and the Iranians will rise up again.

It'll be that protest movement, but on steroids.

And oh, by the way, we could do some fun stuff with Iranian Kurds.

So I met with a senior US intelligence official last week.

Before the announced ceasefire.

And it's actually true what Trump said, believe it or not, about the Iranian Kurds keeping all the kit that was provided to them.

So the idea was the Israelis ran guns and Starlink terminals to a group called PJAK, which is the PKK franchise in Iran.

Our job was to get our Kurds, the Iraqi Kurds of the Kurdistan regional government, to allow this stuff to transit through their borders into Iran.

So that kind of happened.

And it was like 40 guys and they just kept everything.