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This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic. This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic. If Donald Trump's speech about Iran this week was supposed to calm Republicans who fear and increasingly brutal mid-term cycle, well, if failed, Republicans reportedly reacted to the speech with dismay and panic, privately declaring that it hadn't helped at all and might have made things worse. And indeed, Trump's speech didn't say much of anything at all. In fact, it was really a concession of failure.
Trump claimed that the straight of horror moves will naturally open itself, essentially admitting right out in the open that he didn't anticipate the closure and that he has no idea how to fix it himself.
Foreign policy writer and podcast or David Rothkoff has a good new piece arguing that Trump's war has basically put us on a path to all bad options.
So we're talking to him about all this today. David, nice to finally have you on, man. It's great and I so admire what you have built here, Greg, so congratulations on all that. Well, you guys have contributed a little to it, so thank you for that. So in his speech, Trump claimed that Iran's defenses have been decimated, but that the war will go on for a few more weeks, and that we're going to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age, including electricity plans, which means commit more war crimes, and Trump seemed to admit we're not really going after Iran's nuclear material.
“David, what was your overall takeaway from all that?”
Well, you know, it was hard to take anything away from it because he'd said all of it many times before. In fact, you know, somebody clearly said to him, you've got to give a speech to the American people on this things aren't going well, and he gave a speech that revealed to us why he hasn't given what. They still don't have clear objectives. The way things are going don't support any of the multiple objectives they've floated. He doesn't seem to be that interested in outcomes.
You know, I think, you know, he likes this kind of Venezuela thing he goes in, he does one little thing, and then he is able to say he took over a country and he gets a lot of credit. There's a reason people haven't attacked Iran, although we've been adversaries for almost 50 years.
And the reason, of course, this, there's 92 million people there.
It's a big country, and when you attack it, it has a lot of options. And so, you know, we're sinking into yet another quagmire this time because we have a president who doesn't take advice, who has no foresight. And, you know, frankly, it's been a fiasco so far, but there are a lot of signs that it could get much worse. Well, I want to get to that. But first, let's check out another key part of the speech in which Trump basically says, we're not going to reopen the straight of our moves.
Other countries are going to have to do it. Listen to this. So to those countries that can't get fuel, many of which refuse to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, we had to do it ourselves. I have a suggestion. Number one, bioel from the United States of America.
We have plenty. We have so much. And number two, build up some delayed courage. Should have done it before, should have done it with us, as we asked. Go to the straight and just take it, protect it.
Use it for yourselves. Iran has been essentially decimated. The hard part is done, so it should be easy. And in any event when this conflict is over, this straight will open up naturally. It'll just open up naturally.
So this is really an admission by Trump that he has no idea how to reopen the straight, and that he's basically washing his hands a bit.
Let's recall that Trump was privately told about this problem, and he shrugge...
I'd say in that context, this admission is even more damning.
He basically blurred it out.
Then he's not going to do anything about this, and then he has no idea what to do about it. Your thoughts? Well, he had said that earlier in the day. He had said it a couple of times. He was trying to shift the responsibility.
“You may remember former Secretary of State Colin Powell had something he called the pottery barn roll, which was, if you break it, you own it, right?”
Trump has it corollary to that, which is I broke it, you fix it. And that's what he's trying to do here. He's trying to say, well, look, you want their oil, go get their oil. It's also an opportunity for him to do something here, which is one of the more dangerous implicit aspects of this whole process. And that is attack our NATO allies, attack NATO. He's really angry that they didn't come in and say, hey, let's go along with your illegal war that has no objectives. And it's only going to produce global chaos.
And so what is he doing now? He's talking publicly and since the speech, he gave an interview with the daily telegraph, and which he said he seriously thinking of pulling out of NATO, which has been one of the foundations of US national security for 80 years.
It's been one of the most important successful alliances in history. It's probably one of the most important reasons we did not have World War III.
And here he is wanting to pull the plug for it, which is a disaster for us, very bad for Europe, but it's it's good for one guy. Want to guess who that is? Yeah, I think I know who you're talking about. And to your point though, not only is he, quote unquote, angry at our NATO allies for not jumping to the sound of his command to join him, he's saying all this after refusing to brief them beforehand before invading.
“That's what makes it so ridiculous in my mind. He spends the last year crapping all over our alliances, basically telling our allies to fuck off, then he launches this illegal war with absolutely no consultation with our allies.”
And then when it goes badly, he says, "Bail me out, please. That's not how you do this." Well, look, literally every single thing that he does is the wrong thing in the wrong way for the wrong reason. And that's a pattern, you know, in domestic policy, it's a pattern in politics. But it's especially acute here because, you know, there is a long history in national security of actions like this being carefully gained out of a big policy process being undertaken to assess risks of an exploration of historical context of an exploration of potential consequences of making wavy decisions and a thoughtful,
multi-party manner, it's why there was a national security council created. I wrote two books on the NSC. Well, we effectively don't have an NSC now because he doesn't listen to advice. And so you have this ignorance, who ignores the fact that when more games like about this were conducted, we lost. There was a big famous war game that was conducted a number of years ago about the US attacking Iran. We lost because they have leveraged like the straight of our moves. And he ignores that he didn't consult the allies. He thought they would just go along with him.
And frankly, he thought it would be over in a minute because he didn't sort of think through 92 million people 50 years of history, deeply ingrained institutions in that country.
He thinks he's Superman. And of course, you know, that's fine when you jump off the building. It's just a problem when you hit the ground.
“Well, Republicans are not reacting well to the speech. And I think the reason for it is what we're saying here.”
Political reports that a bunch of them are wondering what the point of the speech was didn't provide any kind of clarity about the mission ahead or what will count as success. And it didn't say anything meaningful about how Trump and tends to get costs under control now that his war is driving them higher. One GOP strategist in the battleground state said this quote, what the hell did he just say a quick recap and a path forward would have been helpful.
Instead, it was nonsense left for Sean Hannity to articulate close quote.
David, this strategist is right. This speech will do nothing for Republicans. Will it?
No, particularly since he's going to keep bombing and this would happen today, right? They went in. They bombed a bridge. We can debate whether that's a war crime because it's civilian infrastructure. He threatened now to go in and bomb their electrical systems. That is a war crime. That is punishing civilians. Obviously, this is going to harden resistance. It's going to have an effect on how the Iranians handle, for example, the straight-of-war moves. And what we saw even during the speech was the price of oil going up.
And you're now at $178 a barrel, go to $110 a barrel. I saw an interview today with a noted energy expert who said, "We're on a track to get to $200 a barrel." This is already the worst disruption of global energy flows ever, ever in history. And if he gets to $200 a barrel, let me tell you what that means. That's not just high oil prices. It's not just high fertilizer prices. It's food shortages, it's high food prices, it's global inflation, it's global recession, it is political disaster in an election year for the Republicans.
Now, frankly, it couldn't happen to a nicer group of guys. The problem is that getting to the gigantic defeat that Trump is engineering for the Republicans is going to cause a lot of pain to ordinary people.
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