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Professor John Mirshimer's recent remarks about who's really winning, what does winning look like.
>> It's quite clear that the war is not going well for the United States.
Uh and that President Trump, I think, would like to put an end to it.
And the problem that he faces is he can't find an offramp.
They haven't won anything approximating a decisive victory.
And in a very important way, uh, the Iranians have an incentive to continue the war, to turn it into a protracted war of attrition.
>> Here is Richard Blumenthal talking about what he took from a briefing on Capitol Hill yesterday for senators.
We seem to be on a path toward deploying American troops on the ground in Iran to accomplish any of the potential objectives.
Here >> you have a senator coming out of briefing saying any of the potential objectives, not even able to zero in on like one of the administration's objectives because the messaging has been all over the place.
Here's my interpretation of it, Ryan.
We're at an inflection point where either the administration decides to cut bait and define down what the objectives were, what victory looks like, or put, as Blumenthal said, troops on the ground in Iran to actually tackle substantively whether it's the nuclear question, the missile question.
>> Senator Chris Murphy also came out of that uh meeting.
He said that like it's totally incoherent what what they're hearing internally and it contradicts and conflicts with the rationale that were given.
So behind the scenes planners are saying no it's not actually about the nuclear program.
Second he says they confirmed quote regime change is also not on the list.
He says okay so what are the goals?
He says it seems primarily destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.
That does actually fit with what we've been thinking about as the actual strategy in place here, which is so we're just going to do nation destruction.
We're going to nation unbuild this thing.
We're going to try to cause as much damage as we possibly can.
Then we're going to stop and the second that they try to start rebuilding anything, we're going to attack them again >> to just keep mowing the lawn.
>> To just kill them whenever we feel like it, for as long as we feel like it.
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