Thomas Small

Israel made sure of that.

Only to be followed the next day by this attack on the Apache helicopter.

That's what I meant earlier about now they might be, they sort of tested Netanyahu.

They realized, okay, he fought back.

Will Trump fight back?

Trump has said he's going to fight back.

We wait to see if that's the case.

But all of this is to some extent involved in the making of a deal.

And that deal must be disconnected from Hezbollah.

I've lost my mind.

I actually want to respond a little bit to what you said, Richard, earlier about the China thing.

At the beginning of this conflict, Haviv Gur, the Israeli journalist, published that piece, which made a splash, in which he laid out his analysis saying that, look, no one is noticing the truth, that this is all about China.

it made a brief splash and then it went underground.

And that kind of narrative seemed to go away.

In the Middle East, they did not like that narrative.

They did not want people to be thinking that this was all about China because it drew attention away from the fact that it should be about Iran.

It should be about that actual genuine threat to all of those countries.

And that if it actually is just a larger global geopolitical game,

where we're containing China or countering Chinese moves, then we're back into a Cold War world where everything is about the Soviet Union and therefore whole regions of the world can be laid waste in pursuit of that larger goal.

It doesn't really matter if we spend 12 years destroying Vietnam.