Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much. Welcome to The Late Show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert.

Folks, I don't know about you, but I'm feeling pretty nostalgic for last week when all we had to worry about was a civil war.

Because as we speak, Donald Trump is weighing whether to get America involved in yet another

mid-east war. Okay, this would go, if he does so, if he goes in, this would go against

everything he campaigned on for the last 10 years. What's next? Are we going to find out that it's not fun to stay at the YMCA?

Here's the situation.

Here's the situation.

On Friday, right?

On Friday, Israel, which has been nervous for a couple of decades now

about the Ayatollah getting the nuky boom-booms,

launched attacks against Iran.

Now, the U.S. says it hasn't been directly involved,

but yesterday Trump rushed back to D.C. midway through the G7 summit in Canada.

So either the United States is about to jump in,

or he just got bored during the G7 icebreakers.

Gooden tag. My name is Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Something fun about me is as a child, I loved folding sheets.

But now I only like it.

One thing to know. The U.S. is the only country with the one-of-a-kind kind of ground-penetrating weapons that could reach Iran's deeply buried nuclear enrichment facility.

So the Israeli government wants us to jump in with both bunker bust and feet.

One Israeli source said,

we are cooking everything up for the U.S. Like in soccer, we broke through the opponent's

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