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And already we've exceeded that.
thanks to Donald Trump and his entire administration.
But it seems Trump is now in this situation where he is grasping at straws, potentially to try and end this thing very quickly.
He thought that he could unleash this chaos and then suck it back in, just like he did with Venezuela, just like he did with Midnight Hammer.
But he did not realize that when he said freedom for the Iranian people and a destruction of their regime, they might take that very seriously.
And so if this report is true, they've rejected this ceasefire demand outright.
Well, you can see that they're wanting to fight a little bit more to establish real credible deterrence such that this will never happen to them again.
Already, Israel and the United States have come in and have killed their supreme leader, who, of course, look, he may be somewhat unpopular in the country.
Nobody really knows.
There were videos that came out of people celebrating.
There were also videos that came out of hundreds of people who were mourning his death.
I have no idea.
Obviously, neither do you, despite whatever diaspora community might be marching in the streets of Georgetown or of Tehran.
Diaspora communities marched here in Washington during their war in Iraq.
It wasn't necessarily reflective of the situation on the ground in Baghdad.
I'm of the Indian diaspora.
Do you really think I know what's going on on the ground in India?
Should you really listen to me as the total barometer or my opinions for the barometer of how a billion people feel of whom I don't even really know that well because I'm born and raised here?
It's ridiculous.
It's one of the worst things that our media does is interview diaspora people as if they're somewhat reflective of the people who are back home.