Scott Detrow

In the early days of the war, it seems like the United States accidentally bombed a girls' school.

What is the difference between something like that and deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure like a desalination plant?

So U.S.

law is clear-cut on this.

International law norm seems to be clear-cut on this.

Is that a fair way to understand this?

Given that, what do you make of the fact that both sides in this war have been so blatant and straightforward about targeting and attacking civilian infrastructure like this?

I want to play another clip of a White House official for you.

This is something that top advisor Stephen Miller said to CNN earlier this year.

It's a comment I have thought a lot about in a lot of contexts.

Here, he was talking about the U.S.

military seizing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

I believe Miller was also talking about, you know, Greenland and whether the U.S.

was going to move to seize Greenland in that interview.

But the broader point he was making was the United States is the most powerful country in the world.

And if it wants to do something, nobody can stop it.

What do you make of that?

President Trump said something similar around that time talking to the New York Times.

He said he was only restrained by his own morals when it came to what he felt he could or couldn't do.

Given that, and I do want to make sure we've got you in full context, given what you said before, I'm curious, do you worry the United States is veering toward the direction of, you know, as you put it, World War II Germany in terms of some of the decisions that the president and top officials are making?