Saagar Enjeti

Important to keep in mind that all of these people supported this.

Yeah.

absolutely insane and stupid war, which was the original sin of how they end up in this situation.

But yeah, think of it from their perspective.

They were hoping to collapse the Iranian state into a failed state, some sort of civil war, dramatically degrade their capabilities, maybe install some sort of a US-Israeli puppet leader, but more likely just completely destroy this thing.

Let's arm the Kurds, let's get some sort of civil war going.

Now, and so that they could be the undisputed hegemon in the region, and Netanyahu at the beginning of this war was talking about them being a global superpower.

That was their ambitions at the beginning of it.

Now, the Iranians are going to have much more power.

They have demonstrated their military effectiveness.

They have proven they can strike inside of Israel and cause significant damage.

They have proven the holes and also the dwindling supplies in terms of the Israeli air defense.

And now they're going to be wealthy with this toll that they're charging, will be able to charge on the Strait of Hormuz.

And again, I'm not saying this is all coming to pass right now because it is entirely possible we go back to some sort of a war and then it's a while before this all shakes out.

But that is where things are heading.

And not to mention, and this was mentioned by Naftali Bennett,

Iran is far more likely to pursue a nuclear weapon now.

They are far more hardline, more hardliners in control.

They are far more likely to pursue a nuclear weapon.

In fact, if they didn't, it would be foolish of them, frankly.