Recent leaks reveal significant strategic failures regarding a potential conflict with Iran, casting doubt on the former president's foreign policy approach.
Noah: It’s a trap that he walked right into.. Everybody told him he was walking into a trap.. His advisors were saying, If you start a war with Iran, they will close the Strait of Hormuz.. Analysts have been talking about this scenario for decades.. But he had this delusion that he was able to win wars quickly from the air.. And that was what he told himself about Iran.. Everybody told him he was
wrong.. But he refused to believe them.. He believes what he wants to believe.. And now he really has seriously damaged Republicans’ midterm chances.. I often think of Trump as a kind of saboteur.. And he’s certainly been a saboteur of government.. And now he seems to be bored with sabotaging government and is instead sabotaging the Republican Party itself.. Sargent: The comparison with Venezuela is really interesting because Donald Trump himself has said publicly
that he expects the Iran situation to go the same way the quick in-and-out in Venezuela did.. And, you know, that’s just such a crazy way to think about the situation because Iran is a country of 90 million people, and for all sorts of deep cultural reasons and important geographic facts about geography that can’t be just altered with Trump’s magical lying powers—all these things were just going to conspire to make this much
harder than Venezuela was.. And he wouldn’t hear of it.. He just wouldn’t.