Saagar Enjeti

And then you couple that with the fact that Trump just lies.

And also people lie to Trump about how effective things have been.

And you end up in a situation where probably the president himself is somewhat delusional about the amount of damage that was done.

Let me say one thing about this, because I think this is indicative of something and another important dynamic in this war is like, OK, well, why are they scrubbing the casualties?

Because they don't want people to really know the true cost in terms of, you know, service member lives and obviously those who have been wounded.

And it points to the fact that the American public is not willing to take much pain over this at all.

And this is a point that I was listening to Mearsheimer's latest interview with Glenn Deason yesterday.

And he made a great point, which is, listen, if you accept the official narrative about the airmen who were downed and all of the extraordinary resources that we put in to retrieving this one airman.

And we know we have the reporting about how Trump was freaking out and screaming at his aides for hours about this to the point that he had to be removed from the room so they could actually focus and come up with a plan of what to do.

That was for one guy.

And you think we have the stomach as a nation?

We didn't want this war.

The vast majority of the American public is like, let us get out of this.

What are we thinking?

This is a disaster.

We do not have the stomach to take anything approaching the type of pain and loss and suffering that it will take to create a different ending to this thing other than the ending we're at now, which is that we lost.

That is the ending we're at now.

And everything between where we are now and when this thing actually wraps up, however it gets tied up in a bow or left with loose ends, it's all about when does Trump have to actually acknowledge the reality?

and put forward a deal that reflects the fact that we lost this war.

That is the truth of the matter.