Why Konstantin Kisin says the Iran decision was impulsive

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Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.

1. 28:05

   tricked Trump into this it's interesting because to me what I see in that attempt to say that is a complete lack of understanding of a how the world works because it works exactly the other way around bb does whatever trump tells him to effectively but more than that it's a way i think it's a way for the maga die hard to cope with the reality that trump did something that they didn't support and they have to find a way to explain why that happened and they can't admit that actually it was Trump's impetuous and perhaps impulsive nature, which at this point, at the age that he's at, you have to wonder why that is.

2. 28:48

   Now, he's always been an impulsive person, but we know that impulsivity can increase in some people as they get older. And I think that is a kind of cope that is also going on. People don't want to recognize that trump went into venezuela it was not a thing that he'd prepared for for 10 years with strategic planning and the thing with the iran war and we know this from everybody we've spoken to within the administration it was an impulsive decision based on the idea that we're on a roll here and a lot of people who will say i support dealing with iran will nonetheless say the way that trump did it was wrong and bad the preparation wasn't enough the investment wasn't enough how come we didn't have enough interceptors how come this how come our bases weren't hardened against the inevitable retaliation how come we didn't anticipate or didn't at least prepare for the

3. 29:46

   closure of the strahomers etc so yes there are a lot of people in america who think iran needed to be dealt with and its nuclear threat is a problem that doesn't necessarily mean that they support the way that trump did it and it uh to your point about immigration just finally i mean it is fascinating to me because those are undeniably closing the border is a massive massive win and everybody who really cared about that issue which was a lot of americans will know that that's what happened and for that to be an issue only four percent of the public care about it's almost like oh you you know you've solved that problem what have you done for me lately And I think there was a lot of that going on. And look, you know, to a lot of people, the immigration thing is important, but partly theoretical. It's a thing that happens on TV screens and to which they object, but their local error may not be directly being affected. They nonetheless think it's wrong.

4. 30:49

   but when you wake up every morning and you're thinking about how to feed your kids that week and how to make sure that you can afford to go to the to actually go physically to where you need to go, etc. Those are things that are on people's minds, and they're pressing on a daily basis in the way that even something as frustrating and angering as masses of illegal immigrants coming into your country, it's still more immediate and more visceral than that, especially once you've fixed the immigration problem. It's a weird irony.

5. 31:26

   Yeah, and on the Iran war...