It's Monday, June 23, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the GIST I'm Mike Peska.

If Donald Trump is behind it, I'm against it.

It's not the worst heuristic in the world, but it's also not the best.

I believe that the attack on Iran without further

escalation is possible. But when Donald J. Trump and his DNI, Tulsi Gabbard, and his

sect-def, Pete Hegseth, and his vice president, J.D. Vance, are the key figures making these

decisions. I do not trust Donald Trump. Then again, those people I named

are simultaneously poster children for Donald Trump's propensity to surround himself with the

unqualified, but also the exact people who would rein in his instincts for escalation. Here was J.D. Vance on this week,

this week. And so I'd say to people who are worried about a protracted military conflict is,

number one, the president, more than anybody, is worried about protracted military conflicts.

That is not what we're getting ourselves involved in.

Great. That is key. Iran is tottering, and there are many voices saying now is the time to decapitate them,

to turn the mullahs into posthumulus.

Tempting though it is and promising, though, a world without an Islamic revolutionary state would be,

I do not think this can be our project, our guided project.

I'm glad that the administration emphasized that, as you heard in the J.D. Vance interview.

Oh, wait.

Then a few hours later, the top of the administration trothed.

It is not politically correct to use the term regime change.

But if the current regime is unable to make Iran great again, why wouldn't

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