Tate Brown

He's not really concerned with how the world, what their opinion is on our actions, and nor should we really care.

No, I don't think so.

That's an in-house discussion over whether or not we should intervene in Venezuela, whether or not we should intervene in Iran.

I don't really care what China has to say about this, or I don't even really care about what the Europeans have to say, quite frankly, because it's our affairs.

It's an in-house discussion.

But all this to say, I mean, I'm not thrilled about any sort of intervention in Iran either.

But again, if you look at what happened last summer,

It went quite well.

We do know that Ayatollah, like he's a saber wagger.

He just tweets all day, but he doesn't actually really back it up.

I could see a situation where they just maximize pressure and they cut a deal with him and he leaves.

I mean, that's actually like a pretty realistic scenario here.

Well, he also – like something really important that a lot of people are missing is they saw what happened in Venezuela.

They saw that Russia and then by extension China did not really do anything to back them up.

Granted, obviously, it's a lot closer, so it would be easier to back them up.

But –

They had assets in and around the area.

They could have stepped in if they really wanted to, if they really deemed Venezuela as a truly untouchable asset.

Again, that's in our hemisphere, so it's a little bit different.

But Iran is having this conversation internally where they're like, we can't necessarily depend on the Russians here.