Domenico Montanaro

This is a president who really believes in domination, not collaboration.

And it turns out that talking badly about allies over a long period of time, not making a moral case before getting into the Iran war and not having leverage might mean that people aren't going to go along with what you want.

I mean, tariffs are really a big factor here.

You know, he's been threatening tariffs since the beginning of his second term in office.

But those threats don't carry the same weight since the Supreme Court made it harder for him to use them

whenever and however he wants.

Yeah.

And the president is trying to walk this line.

Like he's not saying, oh, you know, we're going to put troops in the ground.

In fact, he's saying.

opposite that no one's talking about doing that.

And yet there's these movements of troops that are headed to the region, the Marines that are in the region.

And, you know, and I think that they continue to do this between the President and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in particular, to sort of downplay the long term potential for this war, because they know that it's politically dangerous to try to sell the American people

On a prolonged war with American, quote unquote, boots on the ground.

You know, I would say, though, I think the U.S.

could maybe do it on its own.

But at what cost is really the issue, right?

Like Trump doesn't want to absorb all of the cost.

casualties that could come from something as dangerous as trying to secure the Strait of Hormuz.

And this is pretty predictable because this war is already costing billions of dollars.