Robert Pope on Iran: ‘This Is Far from Over,’ Both Sides Are Completely Willing to Escalate

RUSH EXCERPT:PAPE: "Well, first of all, I think shelby’s reporting is absolutely fantastic. I just want to compliment her on this. But I want to say what this shows is this is far from over. Both sides are completely willing to escalate to get their way. And as shelby just said, we don’t know the timelines, but we’re now reaching an incredibly dangerous phase because what this would mean is for the first time, U.S. troops are now coming directly and being engaged directly with ships carrying Iranian oil. And shelby mentioned the Venezuela model. Well, Venezuela didn’t have drones, and it didn’t have a demonstrated willingness to bomb and kill Americans on U.S. Bases already. So this is a much more dangerous situation. Now, why is this actually happening? If I can just make one more point, this is happening because both sides have demands that are literally zero sum. Iran cannot both have it cannot be both. The case Iran has its enriched uranium and it does not. It cannot be the case that Iran is in control of the Strait of Hormuz, and it is not. And that is the fundamental bargaining problem here. This is. The world wants this to be over the two sides. They’re far from agreeing that force is the worst case here for these two sides. They are fully prepared to use force to get their way."

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Robert Pope on Iran: ‘This Is Far from Over,’ Both Sides Are Completely Willing to Escalate‘Both sides have demands that are literally zero sum’News & Politics,InternationalRUSH EXCERPT:PAPE: "Well, first of all, I think shelby’s reporting is absolutely fantastic. I just want to compliment her on this. But I want to say what this shows is this is far from over. Both sides are completely willing to escalate to get their way. And as shelby just said, we don’t know the timelines, but we’re now reaching an incredibly dangerous phase because what this would mean is for the first time, U.S. troops are now coming directly and being engaged directly with ships carrying Iranian oil. And shelby mentioned the Venezuela model. Well, Venezuela didn’t have drones, and it didn’t have a demonstrated willingness to bomb and kill Americans on U.S. Bases already. So this is a much more dangerous situation. Now, why is this actually happening? If I can just make one more point, this is happening because both sides have demands that are literally zero sum. Iran cannot both have it cannot be both. The case Iran has its enriched uranium and it does not. It cannot be the case that Iran is in control of the Strait of Hormuz, and it is not. And that is the fundamental bargaining problem here. This is. The world wants this to be over the two sides. They’re far from agreeing that force is the worst case here for these two sides. They are fully prepared to use force to get their way."Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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