Mike Baker

And I know I'm rambling right now, Jonathan, but one of the comments that that struck me.

from Vice President Vance was, when he was talking about this deal, just before they released the official text of it, he was saying this is a win-win situation.

We either destroy their nuclear program for the future, or we fundamentally change the Islamic Republic.

Yeah.

Fundamentally change this existing regime.

Hey, you know what?

You just you just got you won today's PDB Situation Report Statement of the Obvious Award.

Yeah.

And I think it is it's fascinating to watch sort of the way that people process this.

Right.

Because the in the conversations coming out of the White House, you know, and they're absolutely right in the sense of, look, we really degraded the Iranian military.

Now, we didn't decimate it.

We didn't obliterate it.

I think there's some credible assessments out there that say they retained a.

a significant portion of missile stockpiles, missile launchers, certainly the ability to disrupt the Strait of Hormuz.

But it's interesting because the people, just in general, they hear all this talk about how much damage we did, and then they look at the reaction of the Iranian regime.

And the Iranian regime is acting as if they came out of this with a better hand.

And in a sense, in their minds, I think...

Again, you know, take it for what it's worth.

But my belief based on watching them for a long time is that they look at this and go, we're still in existence after that.