Saagar Enjeti

They fail to achieve their goals militarily through airstrikes.

They don't want to do a ground invasion because that would also be a disaster and unlikely to achieve the goals.

We've got the Navy deployed now for this blockade.

That is probably going to be as bad for us, at least as it is for the Iranians.

It's also not going to cause them to capitulate.

So what else do you have left?

I mean, hopefully nuclear weapons are off the table.

You never know.

But that would be the only final resort that he could get to.

So in order to project a false reality, he is inventing this, oh, I got these eight women freed.

some of whom were already free, none of whom were facing execution.

And the other thing about this is it's just preposterous to even imagine Donald Trump cares about the fate of these women when this is the same guy who threatened to genocide the entire civilization.

Was that a week ago that he was doing that?

And routinely, basically every day, threatens to bomb all the civilian infrastructure, et cetera.

So spare me the concern for Iranian human rights, please.

No one is buying that at this point.

I mean, yeah, that's...

So the one of the things that the Trump administration is also trying to do, which Ryan and Emily talked about yesterday, is their new cope is like, oh, well, the Iranians, they're just such a mess.

Like they can't even come up with their negotiating lines.

They don't know who to talk to.