Us Vs Middle East Leadership Who Decapitates Whom

think as Americans, we see this leadership decapitation very differently than the Middle East. You don't usually take out a leader, right? For example, in war, leaders are spared and it's the bottom military that gets chewed up. Leaders aren't typically a religious leader or seen as a prophet or a mini Muhammad. But I think most Americans see the Ayatollah as a modern day monster, right? It's killed over a million people in this four decades of reign, 35,000 just in the last 60 days. But I guess it doesn't matter what we think, it matters what they think in the Middle East. How does that change this war in your mind? So this is actually one of the, that's a great point. And I think this is actually one of the bigger points with Iran and how it's different from Iraq or even possibly leadership change in other countries. First of all, on the point of leadership decapitation, it does exist. This was a big thing during the Cold War. The difference between Trump and Cold War type tactics is it used to be like cloak and dagger. Trump's doing it out in the open. Trump's also making the point, as are many people in his cabinet, Iran was plotting to assassinate him when he was running for election in 2024. He was even briefed by the FBI on it, even asked Biden for additional presidential level security, which Biden denied him. because he was told again that Iran was plotting to assassinate him. There is leadership decapitation, but it doesn't look like intergovernmental leadership decapitation. It looks like a crazy lone wolf assassin or something like that. But it has without a doubt been happening. Again, look at Cold War type stuff. It's been happening for a very long time. Trump is kind of taking it to a new level, though, demonstrating the ability of just using the full power of the U.S. military to do it, which is kind of terrifying, our enemies, maybe even some of our allies, but terrifying our enemies, to say the least. But on your point also, Iran's very different from a lot of other countries we could be dealing with. The Ayatollah was not popular. He was not popular with his own people. He's not popular in the Middle East. He's popular with China, and I think that's about it. And I think on your point too, Saudi Arabia and Trump wanting the Arab money, quote unquote, it's like, Yeah, Saudi Arabia is probably the more important ally in the region right now. What Trump, I think, wants is a leadership transfer in Iran. And just like he's talking about Gaza, I think he wants not he doesn't want that to be on the hands of the U.S. or especially not Israel, I think, because it would go over so badly. I think he wants Middle Eastern powers to step in. And so I think Trump has been setting up probably against Saudi Arabia to become the new leader. regional powers like center for the for the entire Middle East. And very likely if the if the son of the Shah comes in, former Shah comes in, I think he will very quickly make deals alongside, you know, Saudi Arabia and others that could make Iran a power very similar to those, which may not be, you know, fully on board with the US, but at the very least will not be a threat to us will probably become a good trade partner.