Opposition to President Trump's continued attacks on Iran is growing, not only from resentful

European allies and Democratic Party leaders, but from parts of his maga base.

And Trump should expect more opposition when Marines arrive in the Strait of her moves, but

will help come from America's Arab allies who are under Iranian attack.

Tonight, what does winning a war with unclear objectives look like?

Next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

President Trump is angry at NATO again, insulting the alliance as a,

quote, paper tiger for not supporting his effort to open the Strait of Hormuz, even as he sends more

Marines to possibly do that very job. The war is intensifying in some ways, and Iran appears

unready to fold, though its offensive and defensive capabilities have

been quite obviously degraded by continued American and Israeli strikes.

One question hovering all of this, if and when the Arab states of the Gulf, under Iranian

attack themselves, join the fight. Joining me tonight to discuss this and more, Idris Ali, is a

national security correspondent and

Pentagon correspondent at Reuters. Stephen Hayes is the editor of the dispatch. Vivian Salama

is a staff writer at the Atlantic, and David Sanger is a White House and national security

correspondent at the New York Times. Thank you all for being here. Let me start by reading you,

showing you something that Donald Trump just posted on Truth Social. It's his conditions.

He's arguing, it seems, today, that most of the conditions for ending the war have been met.

He says that the goals of America include completely degrading Iranian missile capability,

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