Trump Holds Leverage to De-escalate

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00:00Let's just go down the diplomatic route, you know, and end on an optimistic note.

00:05I mean, who could step in and who would both sides listen to, do you think?

00:10Well, it is clear that the key player is Donald Trump.

00:14I think he censors it and he has been, I think, in his own terms,

00:19given the extravagant praise and the extravagant criticism often heaped on his head,

00:24he's been steering a pretty interesting course.

00:26He does not want this war to continue.

00:30He does not want world energy markets to be wrecked by this, which is in prospect.

00:35And if he sees in prospect, you know, the mining of the Straits of Hormuz, for example,

00:39he will really put the heat on.

00:41And I think he really can put the heat on Netanyahu because those air defence systems,

00:47much vaunted, the complex, and it's a complex, remember, of Iron Dome, Arrow and so on.

00:54It needs a lot of replenishment.

00:56It's very expensive, and that, the money, the armaments, the wherewithal can only come from America.