Trita Parsi

But their ability to publicly challenge or pick a fight with Trump, I think, is going to be limited.

For the United States, this is also going to ultimately be a turning point, I believe.

I think we had a brief conversation about this before as well, but I think this is really the inflection point that really puts an end to American global primacy.

The ability to sustain that when you cannot even control or have escalation dominance in the Persian Gulf is very, very limited.

And beyond that, even if it isn't, even if there's explanations as to why this war went the way it did, the question marks about America's ability, capacity and competence in being able to run global primacy is now being spread all over the world, including among some of the allies who have for a long time pushed the United States to extend and deepen that primacy.

This is not at all the consequences that we had after the Iraq war.

It was a disaster, but no one questioned America's ability to sustain global primacy.

That question will be front and center after this war.

In my view, however, I have to be very clear.

I think it's a good thing for the United States not to pursue global primacy.

It should have stopped pursuing that a long time ago.

It's just not that it should have happened this way.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you so much for having me.

Appreciate it.

Yeah.

Good to see you.

Good to be with you guys.

If these are the American red lines and if these were the actual negotiation positions of the delegation in Islamabad, then I don't think there was any need for any negotiations at all.

Those are dead on arrival.