Trump wants to lump Yemen and Iran into a single war: Kwiatkowski — Transcript

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1. 0:00I think the the pressure on Donald Trump
2. 0:02really as we approach uh the winter, as
3. 0:05we approach uh the lack of uh reserves,
4. 0:08national reserves both um in the United
5. 0:11States and everywhere else, particularly
6. 0:12Europe, that the retaliatory
7. 0:17strikes and the capability of both Iran
8. 0:20and Yemen to disrupt and to completely
9. 0:23shut down energy flows, global energy
10. 0:27flows, uh is really something that I
11. 0:29think the people around Trump are
12. 0:31pushing him to deal with. Now, he has no
13. 0:33strategy to deal with it. Uh he doesn't
14. 0:36believe in peace or the free market, but
15. 0:39I think the pressure is on Donald Trump
16. 0:41and I don't think he'll want a new war.
17. 0:43I think he will want a more
18. 0:45comprehensive West Asia uh effort that
19. 0:49he is uh not leading from behind because
20. 0:52that's not Donald Trump's style. it it
21. 0:54will I think he'll be uh saying we are
22. 0:56going to free this energy up now. He
23. 0:59cannot do it. We don't have the means to
24. 1:01do it. It makes the war worse. Um and we
25. 1:03will lose. We're already losing and
26. 1:05we're going to continue to lose. But
27. 1:07that's what I think he will do. Uh he is
28. 1:10less and less concerned about what the
29. 1:13American people think. That's very
30. 1:14clear. Um he has promised to restart any
31. 1:19number of hostilities after the
32. 1:21election, but I don't trust him to he
33. 1:24doesn't really care. I think that he
34. 1:26would uh if he thought he could gain an
35. 1:27advantage, he would initiate reinitiate
36. 1:30attacks before the election. Um in fact,
37. 1:33possibly if the retaliation from Iran is
38. 1:36significant enough, he could use that to
39. 1:38impact our own elections. So yeah,
40. 1:41Donald Trump is not a man with a plan,
41. 1:43but he he I don't think he's willing to
42. 1:48add a new war against Yemen. I think he
43. 1:50wants to uh lump Yemen, Iran, and other
44. 1:55countries that even Iraq, even some
45. 1:57parts of Iraq, uh is a single war. And
46. 2:00also realize Americans are not
47. 2:02wellversed in the complexities of West
48. 2:05Asia. Uh it's easier for Trump to just
49. 2:07say, "Yeah, the Yemenes are helping Iran
50. 2:10achieve Iran's goals, and we must we,
51. 2:14you know, we're going to expand the
52. 2:15battlefront.