Richard Haass

Okay, but they will be able to regenerate, you know, one, they've saved some missiles, drones.

They've meanwhile gotten control of the Strait and they've denied use of it, which has potentially, you know, cataclysmic consequences for the world economy.

We haven't set back their nuclear program.

We may have increased their urge to have nuclear weapons.

We've weakened American relationships in the region around the world because we didn't consult about this war.

We didn't defend our allies in the region effectively.

They're all much worse off.

Indeed, the entire business model of this part of the world has been put at risk.

The president's posts have raised questions about his temperament, his judgment.

You can add the list of other characteristics.

Oh, by the way, we've used up a lot of our military hardware.

We've had to pull forces out of other regions, put them here.

So we've left Ukraine with less of a pipeline of arms, Taiwan with less of a pipeline of arms.

So this war is at odds, among other things, with the administration's own national security strategy.

Totally at odds with that.

It makes no strategic sense.

The idea that we're once again concentrating on a part of the world where we shouldn't be concentrating.

So yeah, there's a long list of reasons why this is one of the most counterproductive excursions, if I may use the word, in modern American foreign policy.

100%.

The Venezuela president.