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But in the hypothetical case, when we were on the right side of history and haven't, you know, haven't made decades of deals with the autocrats entire administration.

um which is hard to say because we've done that a lot in the case where we are in the right and we'll be on the right side of history we don't want to be militarily incapable of aiding the cause of justice because we've used our strategic energy reserve we've exhausted our strategic energy reserve um

I mean, if that's your argument for green energy, I support it.

Build solar energy.

Exactly.

Where was that in the Bush administration?

If you didn't support the troops back then, you couldn't get a platform.

What's the actual tangible threat from China or Russia for that matter, but specifically, what are we worried about China doing militarily if the US appears weak?

Japan capable of- Way more escalation, theoretically.

So on that note, can we talk a little bit about the most recent incarnation of the Iran deal?

Matt, I assume it's all very good.

What are your favorite highlights?

And we also didn't bomb any schools to get the JCPOA.

And I'm not listening to a lot of those MAGA voices, but I think, you know, when you say it is one guy who's unwilling to negotiate, who's doing everything out of spite, I agree to a certain extent, but also I think that has clearly proliferated into the media space and some of the other legislators of like, is there, there's always going to be an argument made for why what Trump did is, you know, there's always going to be a huge media apparatus explaining why what he did is actually better for America, right?

via any form of intervention that we've used in the past.

And clearly diplomacy is not at its best right now, our remaining option.

We kill that many people.

We just sort of let them die via lack of assistance.

They just die due to medical debt or COVID or all the other ways that we let people die that don't sound like murder.

not to undermine the the uh sickening actions of the iranian regime just to just to be clear uh once again separating the people from their regimes yeah if this is if this is uh i mean i can't imagine that the trump administration's goal was to end in a situation where we can provide better humanitarian aid but this doesn't even really sound like a deal it sounds like a major concession i mean it's a deal yeah insofar as like it's not like a great negotiation it sounds like the us took what they could get which is less than they had when the whole thing started