Scott Galloway

We're just hours before the ceasefire deadline, and the U.S.

and Iranian officials both sending mixed signals, naval confrontations escalating in the Strait of Hormuz, and peace talks hanging on by a thread.

The question now isn't just how this ends, but is the conflict already reshaping American power, the Republican Party, MAGA, and the broader global order?

Just yesterday, dozens of veterans were arrested for protesting the war at the Capitol.

You've called this war a defining act of strength.

I'm curious, give us your sense of the state of play here and drill down as deep as you want or pull back as far as you want, but sort of a wrong question mark, your thoughts.

So I think there's a lot of merit in the arguments that this is a unique moment in time, an opportunity.

Their defense is totally, totally destroyed.

The IRGC seem to be wobbling.

The idea of further diminishing their ability to fund terror through their proxies across the region

taking out their navy, diminishing their missile infrastructure, all of these things, check, check, check.

How would you respond to the notion that this entire conflict or war demonstrates or defines operational excellence but strategic incompetence?

To not anticipate the Strait of Hormuz being seized by the Iranians, to not

have a plan for getting expats out of the region, for not anticipating that these military bases would become a target.

I think more missiles have been fired into the UAE than into Israel.

I think it's hard to argue that Iran isn't weakened.

I worry that the reputation of the U.S.

has been weakened because this has been so, the operation itself at a strategic level has been so mishandled.

Your thoughts?

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