Senator Chris Murphy

J.D.

Vance, who's never negotiated an international deal in his life, a real estate developer who has no experience in negotiations and a bunch of hangers on to the president.

J.D.

Vance was in Islamabad for 24 hours and left.

That's not how negotiations work.

You have to sit down and negotiate for weeks, especially with a complicated adversary like the Iranians and the fact that we only are willing to give it

24 hours of negotiation tells you just how nonsensical all of this is.

So I think this war is going to drag on for a really long time unless Trump just decides to end it unilaterally, which I still think is the best of a bunch of bad options moving forward.

I don't see a big diplomatic settlement.

I don't see Iran reopening the Strait absent Trump ending the war.

But his pride and his hubris and his ego is probably for the foreseeable future going to stop him from ending it unilaterally.

Unilaterally end the war.

Just withdraw.

Yeah, withdraw.

So there's no military means for us to take Iran's control of the Strait away.

So let's just start there.

The fastest way to get into a conversation with Iran about how to reopen the Strait is to permanently end the war or the threat of military action.

Trump believes—

that his threat to restart bombing or this current plan to sort of layer on an American blockade to the Iranian blockade will change Iranian behavior.

Again, in the Middle East, there is not a lot of evidence to suggest that escalatory behavior ultimately achieves U.S.