Nika Kovacs

It has nothing to do with

Oh, I forgot.

The Iranian people were supposed to rise up and there was going to be a democracy and the former Shah's son was going to go, what happened to that?

That's out the window.

So no nuclear ambitions anymore.

No ambitions to change the regime to a democracy.

I'm not saying that would have worked, but we don't hear about that anymore.

We hear about the Navy and the Air Force of Iran.

But the...

the fundamental issue for the United States is that things are much worse today than when the war started.

The main reason for that is that the Strait of Hormuz has been closed and therefore 20% of the world's fossil fuel energy is not getting out, creating a potentially economic catastrophe that I think people have not yet gotten their minds around because it's coming one way or another.

Even if the war ended tomorrow, we're going to be dealing with the effects of this.

So, so,

I, as an American citizen, have no idea what the purpose of this war is.

Importantly, the Iranians, who are supposed to be the ones that Trump is ostensibly negotiating with, how could the Iranians have any idea what they're being asked to do when these things keep changing?

How can the Iranians trust a negotiation when they've been bombed twice in the middle of previous negotiations?

How can they trust a negotiation when Israel keeps assassinating people, including some of the people who would be engaged in those negotiations?

So it's just totally incoherent.

And now for him to say,

we will walk away from this without the Strait of Hormuz being opened up.