Nika Kovacs

And the regime is in some ways weaker because they've lost a lot of people and capabilities, but in some ways actually stronger because they are now controlling the...

Straight of Hormuz and holding the entire global economy hostage.

They have now demonstrated that they can regionalize this war and impose such a cost on the United States that the president of the United States is self-evidently trying to talk himself out of this war.

Right.

And so this is utter bullshit.

And there's the problem with it alone is that.

You cannot make policy based on lies.

He wants us to believe that the regime has changed.

He wants us to believe that everything has been obliterated.

He wants us to believe that Iran is paying tribute with ships that are going through the Strait of Hormuz, which is closed.

These things aren't happening.

And if you're trying to suit policy to the lies being told by the president in something as big and complex as a war, when Iran gets a vote, how and when this war ends, Israel, which gets a vote on how and when this war ends, the fact that even if this war ended tomorrow, it would take years, I think, to rehabilitate all of that energy infrastructure that's been damaged and to restart the full supply of energy through the Strait of Hormuz.

These are all facts.

that Trump cannot contend with.

And so we're living in this crazy reality where we can all see from the price of gas in this country to the shit that has blown up across the Middle East to the tankers that aren't getting to the Strait of Hormuz, what is actually happening.

And you have Trump out there saying there's regime change.

We're on the third regime.

We're winning.

We've already won.

We've obliterated everything when none of those things are true.