Ryan Grim
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And if you're the Iranian leadership,
you're probably only going to be in a better position after the U.S.
exhausts itself once again, depending on how long they carry it on.
Now, the personal risk for Iranian leadership is that they personally may be killed again.
The U.S.
and Israel are both actually very good at assassinating the upper echelons of organizations.
They haven't yet
you know, demonstrated how that's an effective kind of military or political strategy because new people kind of fill in.
And sometimes those new people are more effective and competent than the previous people.
Sometimes they're a little less, but just kind of killing someone and having them be replaced by someone else has, as far as I can tell, um, in any of their conflicts, not actually done anything other than satisfy whatever urge is satisfied by doing that.
Um, so that's,
You know, they have their offer on the table, the Iranians, and it's kind of up to Trump to either take it or go back to war.
Maybe he goes to war with Cuba instead so we forget about Iran.
Yeah.
My theory is that he's trying right now to wait out.
He knows he's in a bad situation where he can either try and make a deal that his side is not going to accept, his Mark Levin, Mark Thiessen, Netanyahu side is not going to accept, or...
or he can escalate, which he knows is going to make his poll numbers worse.
It's going to be even worse for inflation and gas prices heading into the heating up of the midterm season.
And so he's hoping that something happens internally.
There are always rumors that the government is just on the precipice, but I think he is hoping that...