If we’re going to fight to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, this regime, then we need to rewrite the rules that are advantageous to us. I don’t want to get cultural sites on purpose, but if you’re using one to harbor your most dangerous weapons, then that should be on the target list. So instead of a sincere thinker, a strategic thinker who would dial Trump back, you have somebody that would appeal to his most bellicose attributes in the most bellicose of ways. So we’ll start with Hegseth and then go to Netanyahu. He wants to bomb Tehran infrastructure as a way of degrading Tehran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon.

So how far advanced are they? And Putin’s not going to sit back and allow the United States to destroy highways in Tehran, is he? Look, I think we’re leading one factor out of discussion here. That is China. Russia has its own geopolitical reasons for standing by Iran. And though those reasons were not sufficient for them to conclude and sign off on a mutual defense pact, Russia is a little bit cautious with good reason. But who else is in play here? China is in play here. What was just being discussed, the destruction of Iranian hydrocarbon production or refining of both, is of vital interest to China.

It is impossible to imagine that China would let this happen without taking some very strong steps against the United States. Military steps, Professor? Pardon? Military steps or economic steps? Both, but I think the first most obvious if there would be military. It is widely assumed that in a month or two they can take over Taiwan if they want to. The United States is not prepared. [tr:trw].

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