Robbie Bernstein
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You still engage in a blockade.
Pretend that that's not a military activity.
And then I guess if Iran escalates, you go, look, there's an imminent threat and I don't need a wartime resolution act.
You want to play the rest of this one?
Well, from what I understand, we're no longer in the war.
But when we were in the war, which of course wasn't a war, but when we were engaged in that and we were engaged in offensive strikes, it was because Iran was actually an imminent nuclear threat, which means that that was defensive as well.
And so if anything, I think the administration is taking a weaker strategy to being defensive because the best defense is a good offense and we've got the best equipment in the world.
And now we're just not doing everything we can to keep Iran from going nuclear.
And I love that it opens up with the now Lucy pose.
Well, I think, you know, this goes back to at the beginning of the war.
The intelligence was, hey, you're going to have a hard time engaging in warfare with them because they're going to close the Hormuz Strait.
And so what people were pointing to is you can work out a nuclear deal with them, but don't try and take military action because you're going to end up with a closed Strait.
and now he's basically parroting exactly that back which is hey the straits closing would be a really big problem and would jack up our oil prices and it's like yeah that's why you guys never should have done this yeah it's just uh it really is unbelievable unbelievable that they
Well, you know, even Pete Heggs at this thinking, but can't say it.
Hey, Donald Trump says stupid shit all the time.
And we can't apply this kind of standard to Donald Trump because, and listen, the way that they're going to spin it is, well, that was Donald Trump's 5d chess and he was making the most extreme demands, but obviously he's always a deal maker and he was looking for a deal.
And it was because of his compassion for the Iranian people that he decided not to bomb them to oblivion and figured out a pathway peacefully to work with them.