Trita Parsi

If Israel restarts another war with Iran, regardless of how it starts, the U.S.

is out.

All depends.

I mean, I think you're absolutely right.

We've seen it so far that the US, you know, there will be a tremendous amount of pressure domestically to support it.

But I think also things are changing.

I mean, right now, the standing of Israel has plummeted amongst the American public in almost every demographic, except for boomer Republicans.

Well, who would have thought, right?

And also I think on the Republican side or the conservative side, I think it's become very clear, particularly to the younger demographics there, that Israel is a key factor as to why the United States has been involved in so many different wars.

A key factor in the decline of the United States.

And since so many of these young folks have completely turned against these endless wars, et cetera, it's always been a bit of an issue, I think, for some of the younger Republicans on the sense of being against the forever wars, being against overextended the United States, all of these bases around the world, while at the same time trying to stay neutral or positive on Israel.

And that cognitive dissonance worked for a while,

it doesn't work any longer because it's just so crystal clear.

And again, it's gonna take a while before that really impacts the politics of this, but I think it's gonna become increasingly clear.

I think it's gonna be very interesting to see what happens in the midterm elections, both on the Republican and the Democratic side on this issue.

It will still take a couple of more years and there will be a couple of more years needed in order to produce foreign policy thinkers on both sides of the aisle

that have broken free from this conventional thinking about what the US's role in the world should be, what the US's role in the Middle East should be, and what the US's relationship, not just with Israel, but any type of a special relationship, whether those should be kept or not.

This is a really good point because everyone else is looking at this.

Every other country is like, okay, what's the win here?

Best case, how does this turn out?