Michael Weiss
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They're very gung ho for Trump to get involved in this because for them, it is a much more immediate security threat for them to have the current Iranian regime in place.
October 7th has changed their calculation across the board.
which is why they not only went after Hamas in Gaza, but eviscerated Hezbollah in Lebanon, accidentally toppled Bashar al-Assad, even though there's some buyer's remorse there.
So for them, this is just taking care of all family business.
And the way they see it is they're never going to get a better guy in the White House than Donald Trump to go along with it.
That's for sure.
I think it's coming.
That's for sure.
Just as one little final point there, I think the one thing that has dragged this out, members of the Trump family, including Trump himself, I guess it all devolves to the king at some point, but Kushner and Witkoff, his two plenipotentiaries, special advisors or envoys, they've got a lot of money tied up in the region.
I mean, they've made a fortune going around
resolving these regional crises, assembling the peace board.
Kushner with the largest leverage buyout in history done with the Saudis to purchase a video game giant.
The Witkoffs getting money, $2 billion for world liberty, financial, whatever it's called, which Trump also is involved in from the Emiratis.
So they don't want war in Iran because all of the Gulf paymasters that have financed their operations don't want war in Iran.
But I think the
contradiction here is the Iranians are not willing to do what Donald Trump says, forfeit your nuclear program, give up your missile program, and then eliminate all of the proxy groups or your patronage of all the proxies you spent the better part of 30 years assembling throughout the region.
So, you know, hence a kinetic conclusion to this.
The one in Gaza, I mean, if you look at the deck or the slideshow that Jared put together, I mean, this goes beyond like Dubai and Palm Jumeirah.
This is like Coruscant, the imperial capital of Star Wars.
Most volatile piece of real estate in the Middle East, which is saying a lot because it's the Middle East.