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A single best Idea and an extraordinary Tuesday. When Paul and I started the show this morning, we have no idea where we're going. Ten minutes before we started, literally we were on here with Nathan Hager. Demarca jumped this off missile attacks at carg which became military sites according to the Wall Street Journal. As you listen to single Best Idea, I have no idea where this story will unfold.
What we're committed to is talking to people who are legitimate experts who have really thought about this long before any moment of punditry. Rebecca Listener is with the Console on Foreign Relations, a wonderful essay recently on realism in foreign diplomacy. Here is Rebecca Listener on the moment at hand.
President Trump has said if Iron doesn't come to the table for negotiations, doesn't reopen the straight of hor Moods by eight pm Eastern tonight, he's going to bomb them back into the Stone Ages. He's threatened a new Infrastructure Day that takes on power plants and bridges. Some would say that these could constitute war crimes, but he's looking for a way to de escalate this conflict because he entered into it with no plan and no strategy and
now is having trouble finding a way out. So my expectation is he's hoping to bridge the gap between what are two very maximalist set of demands that both sides have put on the table and negotiations and try to really open a diplomatic path that helps at least get to a ceasefire that puts a pause on this conflict and takes some pressure off the markets.
Rebecca Listener to the Council on Foreign Relations along that idea of diplomacy, A piercing conversation, maybe the most acute ever with ellen Wald. She's with the Atlantic Council, but far more ellen Wald were There're one volume Saudi inc of years ago. Ellen Wald on the allies in the Persian Gulf.
I do think that the US is in constant contact with Saudi Arabia, with the Saudi government along with other you know, GCC governments. This is a huge issue for them, and the potential for the war to grow even wider is growing at this point because with Iran essentially acting as this kind of toll master of the straight of horror, moves. This is not something that Saudi Arabia, or the UE or any of the other countries that rely on this waterway can stand for.
Ellen Wald, her book is Saudi. Can't say enough about the coverage. A major, major shout out to our Tea Live team covering the Iran War. It stretches from Washington to Westminster today with Kiers Starmer's people weighing in, to our Queen Victoria Street headquarters in Dublin and on over to Dubai an Istabule. Major shout out to Patrick Sykes and istabul who started the show today on a podcast. We're at Apple, where at Spotify on YouTube podcasts. It's single best idea.