Rudyard Griffiths

So there's multiple clocks here running, Andrew, but that short, sharp shock that may be lying out there two, three weeks out,

They must know this.

So, I mean, Einstein's definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.

So if you're getting up every morning and declaring Operation Freedom and then canceling it when you go to sleep and then putting it back on and off again and on and off again, I mean, this is giving Einstein a run for his money.

The comedian, I think you call him a comedian, Tim Dillon, recently described Trump as what many Americans first came to know him for, which is a reality TV star playing a politician.

And that, in his view, in a much more amusing way than I could relate,

he's now a reality tv star fighting a war and and the show isn't going the way he wanted to do there is no script writer that comes in at the end of the day and says okay we're gonna fire that contestant have this contestant come in we'll flip the script and uh sure we can do what you want this is a war the the iranians have a say and

And this has thrown the president, it's deeply destabilizing for this administration because it really is, Andrew, maybe the first time

that an unstoppable object, the president has run into an immovable object, which is the Iranian regime.

At least he wasn't passing out Kash Patel's name engraved bourbon bottles at the window of his family station wagon.

So just finally, because I think this is one of the things a lot of us maybe have worried about Trump, is that there would become a moment where he would drag us and everything down with him.

And I guess the question is, Andrew, is has a certain paralysis set in where even though he's aware either directly or indirectly about this looming deadline of large-scale energy shortages across the world,

That date is coming.

It's moving up with each passing day, but we seem trapped in this braggadocio of I'm about to escalate the war.

He was even doing it today, but oh no, the negotiations are going really well.

Some of these moderates are fantastic.

The rest are lunatics.

There's lunatics here in my country too.

I don't know what...

exactly he's talking about or who he's referring to, but it all seems rather incoherent and it's hard to make sense of, but the consequence is the same, is that we're going from one day to the next without a state change in this conflict.