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I think that's what the president is doing he's, he's saying that we're going to hurt their economy to a certain extent that they won't be able to make war, even if we don't have to be there with this full force.
And we're going to try to destroy their military capability for 10 years.
And then we're going to set in motion enough chaos that they won't be able to fund Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, or rebuild this maybe a half a trillion dollar loss of 50 years in their military-industrial-nuclear complex.
We're going to make that very difficult politically for them.
So if they start using all of their new money, blockade, and they start investing in the same old, same old, the people are going to rise up.
And, you know, it's not a crazy thought, the Berlin Wall fell, and it was two years before the Soviet Union collapsed, and weeks, but often months, for the rest of the Warsaw Pact to collapse.
So I think the president thinks he's setting in motion the humiliation of this regime and making them have a lose-lose choice to either rebuild, and when it's over, rebuild, and if they do, they're going to alienate the people even further.
So there's ways to get around these self-imposed restraints.
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Mark R. Levin: Yeah, my only problem with some of that is, number one, they don't have a nuclear weapon, so we don't have to fear that from them, thanks to what the president has done.
And number two, they're already pushing the Hezbollah to continue doing what Hezbollah is doing.
And number three, the Houthis have been completely untouched.
And number four, Communist China and other bad actors out there, I suspect they're going to want to help Iran, especially when President Trump leaves.
And if they see a weak Democrat as president, perhaps, like an Obama or Biden, I think they're going to make their run for the finish line or to do more in terms of very negative activity to us
and to the Middle East.
And plus their ideology is, they think, from Allah.
Your last word.
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Victor Davis Hanson: Yeah, well, that's a problem.
We've had four administrations, and the Russians invaded Ukraine, and three of them are their neighbors in Osatia with Bush, Obama, and Biden, but not during Trump.
So if he can reestablish deterrence, at least for two years,
I think he can quiet - the Chinese are not in a good position vis-a-vis where they were two years ago.
Russia is not - they've lost their toehold or their clients in Venezuela and Syria and now Iran.
China is hurting.
We're ascendant, but we just have to manage that a little better, I think, and wrap this up.
If we wrap this up, then the further problems won't escalate.
And we saw that with the bombing last June, and we saw it with Venezuela, we saw it with Panama.
That creates momentum.
But if we get stalled in negotiations, then the people come out of the woodwork and try to take advantage.
But not a strong show in Iran.
That will be really deterrent.
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