Steven Bartlett

That's not going to work.

You also can't negotiate.

So it runs the clock down.

None of us were involved.

And how do you predict this ends?

Because, as you said, we can't back out of this war as the West.

Trump can't back out of it.

But he also just can't keep doing it.

The midterms are coming up.

His approval ratings are, I think, an all-time low because of this war.

His base is turning on him.

So he can't, it's like lose-lose at this moment.

But in such a scenario, they're probably building up drones right now in a ceasefire.

Underground, they'll be building drone factories in every bunker in Iran right now.

The minute you do a multinational force in Australia for moves, those drones start hitting ships.

And then the big companies say, I'm not putting my ships through there.

I think it's clear that Trump miscalculated this situation quite horrifically.

That's fair.

You don't have to be a genius to look at what he's saying and see the contradictions, the constant contradictions week over week.

And the big one he's now got himself trapped in is he was handing out a six-week timeline at the start of this, and we're approaching six weeks.