Vera Bergengruen

And we have Marco Rubio and Trump, you know, watching two guys beat each other up in Miami.

Ultimately, he walked out after 21 hours and he said, you know, we weren't able to reach an agreement.

There's no deal.

And so ultimately, the vice president said that the negotiations broke down specifically because Iran would not commit to not pursuing nuclear weapons and, you know, kind of curbing their nuclear ambitions.

But as far as we can tell, it was about more than that.

What did Iran say?

Iran said that the United States was not approaching this in good faith.

They said that the United States was coming in, again, with like a fantasy wish list of the demands of a victor, of somebody who's won a war and is forcing concessions on another country.

And in their view, they still have control of the Strait of Hormuz.

They're still in control.

So, you know, Iran wasn't approaching this as someone who has lost the war and who has to concede.

They didn't see that as somebody really approaching this in a serious and good faith way.

Again, I mean, when the president himself is saying, we've already won, I don't really care what happens in these negotiations.

I think that was a very unusual message to say ahead of a negotiation.

You know, when you think how long it took 10 plus years ago to settle a couple of points on the nuclear program, that took hundreds of people and many years.

And now they were trying to do that and 10 other things at the same time without having done any of the pre-meetings with lower level people getting on the same page, you know.

These negotiations are incredibly complicated.

And this is how the Trump administration in his second term has approached all of these.

We saw this in Gaza, in Ukraine.

They tend to try to invert the whole process.