Scott Horton

He's doing like these symbolic strikes essentially to say like, hey, you can't do that to me.

But then he's also telegraphing that, hey, like I can't do anything about you and I don't really want to fight.

And so in a way, he's like kind of backing down.

He's doing.

And then what did Donald Trump say?

Donald Trump, again, let him have the last word.

And in fact.

like bragged and mocked and said, hey, thanks, Ayatollah, for giving us a warning that you were about to shoot missiles at our base so we could be ready to shoot them all down and this kind of thing.

And he said, now is the time for peace.

In other words, Trump again letting the Ayatollah get the last word.

Why?

Because the Ayatollah

He might be a horrible leader if you live in Iran, but he is not perfectly, but essentially cautious in foreign policy.

Because what's he going to do?

He's going to decimate our naval base at Bahrain.

He's going to slaughter all our troops in Kuwait.

And then what's Trump going to do?

And so the Ayatollah knows.

So it's the same people who, I don't include him in this, but you hear a lot of the hawkish talk about just how easy this has been.

These same people talking about what an absolutely irrational, religiously motivated and therefore crazy and irrational group of people the mullahs are and why they can only be dealt with with force.