Rory Stewart

But one thing I think that we can be pretty confident of

is that even if Trump stops his military operations, in a sense, the war will not be over because the way in which senior Israeli figures are talking is that they will go back and back and back into Iran whenever they want.

They can go back in three months' time, six months' time, nine months' time.

Because what they're going to do is attempt to perpetually degrade the military infrastructure and probably degrade the entire state structures and government structures around.

They would much rather have a failed, weak state that's not a threat to Israel than have a coherent nationalistic state.

I'm going to add in Boris Johnson.

Absolutely extraordinary.

I mean, Boris Johnson absolutely just out there again and again saying anybody who remotely questions what the US is doing in Venezuela or Iran...

is a lefty bedwetter.

Clearly, what we should do is get right in behind the US.

It's very interesting.

It's as though the right really wasn't talking about sovereignty at all.

One almost gets the impression that their worldview is they don't like being told what to do by the French and the Germans, but they want to be told what to do by the US and Israel.

Interestingly, I also think they're going to become increasingly pro-Modi.

You can see there's a Conservative MP representing a Harrow constituency who's just got this medal from the Indian government.

But I wouldn't be surprised if we don't find out.

I'm teasing them about being too pro-US, too pro-Israel.

I think within five years' time, they'll be knee-jerking to the Indian position on the world too.

I think we should be cautious because I think it's an exciting idea.

But remember that India was engaged in the extrajudicial killing of Canadian citizens on Canadian territory not very long ago.