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Yeah, I will admit I was surprised by that.

There's been a lot of public reporting that suggested that other Middle Eastern nations were discouraging President Trump from going after Iran.

I'm a little bit skeptical of that.

I have not recently had those conversations with other Middle Eastern nations, but I've had many conversations with the Saudis, UAE, Bahrain.

And and they have always been very focused on, number one, doing everything necessary to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

The Saudis have said publicly if Iran ever got a nuclear weapon, that they would do everything possible to get a nuke themselves to defend themselves from Iran.

And so I don't know if it's true or not that in the recent weeks, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries were urging Trump not to attack.

But I do know that Iran's behavior, so they fired missiles and sent drones and had attacks at almost every single Arab country all throughout the Middle East.

So they've attacked Saudi Arabia.

They've attacked UAE.

They've attacked Kuwait.

They've attacked Qatar.

They've attacked Bahrain.

They've attacked Jordan.

And we've seen statements from many of those other Middle Eastern countries, mostly Arab countries, expressing, condemning, condemning Iran's response.

And, you know...

In my view, they're just indiscriminately firing abroad, and I think their reasoning was that if the United States and or Israel hit them, that they wanted to make it as painful as possible for the entirety of the region, right?

What they have ensured is that there's basically nobody standing up and siding with the Iranians.

They're demonstrating, essentially, they're willing to kill anybody and everybody.