Trump called it tough love and is claiming credit for solving this situation. And he's now far off. And I realized that when things that are this polarized, that when I say things like, well he's now far off, then everybody retreats to their safe space and says Scott, press the reasoning, stop your personal reasoning. You will agree with the president no matter what he does. No matter what he does. No. I disagree with the president all the time. I could give you six examples of policies I don't think are working quite right. This just doesn't happen to be one of them because he was doing exactly what he promised. He's getting exactly the kind of pushback you'd want and expect. You'd kind of want and expect the military to be uncomfortable with this decision, right? That's our best case scenario, is that the military says we're not done, we don't want to leave our allies, let us finish the job. That's exactly what you want the military to say. But you also sometimes want the non-military leadership to say, I know you want to fight though, we're gonna bring you home. So we have kind of the ideal situation. A little bit of tension between the military wants to fight. Perfect. That's exactly the military you want. They want to fight. And the civilian president who says I'm not going to let you get killed over this objective. That's perfect, right? That's right where you want to be.

All right. I don't see any situation in which the United States could have agreed to permanently protect the Kurds. And you're gonna start to see more reporting like that. Here's my prediction. That no matter what this ceasefire or pause turns into, and my assumption is that the ceasefire will fail and that it will fail hard. I don't trust Turkey and I expect that Turkey will just wait a few days or they're just moving more troops in so they didn't care if they waited a few days anyway. So probably they're just getting ready to do a big push. And probably Turkey doesn't plan to honor any agreement because their national security is at risk. If the roles were reversed, would the United States make promises and then just do whatever it needed to do to keep its country safe? Yeah we would. We would. If you change roles and you made us Turkey we would promise anything we had to promise and then we'd do whatever we needed to do because ultimately you need to do whatever you need to do. And Turkey has a legitimate security concern. You might not agree with it but it's legitimate. They have people attacking them who are in this population and they can't have them on the border without having some kind of military cap on it.

So is that enough about that? Yes that's enough about that.