What They Said

"But the weird thing about this fantasy is the fantasy seems to change minute by minute. I mean George Bush and the Iraq War, that was a fantasy. But it was a coherent fantasy. I mean it all went a cropper of course. But they were there, they had outlined this. They were just wrong in all of their assumptions, but Trump doesn't even seem to have any assumptions. And they could change. I'm sure they will change today. Where are we at this morning? This morning we're at he's going to, he's going to negotiate. Except he doesn't know who he's going to negotiate with. Nor does he know what he's going to negotiate. What does he want? What would we take? What would they give? None of this is clear. I mean, except that they have a stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, which could have been anticipated."  

Michael Wolff

"Christ will return... Will he be a supporter of the criminal killers who shed the blood of millions of people in order to have power over oil, money and markets? Or will he be a supporter of the weak, the poor, the maltreated and the oppressed?" 

Hezbollah leader Nasrallah

“…I ought to urge publicly what I have vainly urged on Israeli friends many times, namely that Israel could make no greater contribution to the safety of its own future and to the peace of the world than by offering Jerusalem as the common capital of a Palestine Federation…amounting, at least at first, to little more than common defence and a free trade union…” 

Hayek

"It’s genuinely surprising to see Drump unable to wrap up a real war. One he helped light. No clear plan, no endgame, just “very productive talks” that nobody else seems to find or confirm yet.

"Which is odd, because he insists he’s already stopped 8 or 9 wars. Not that he might, or could, but that he already did. Single-handedly and with supreme confidence. Like global peace has been his side hustle this whole time.

"The only problem is he can neither remember where most of them were, nor their name. Albania instead of Armenia. “Aber-baijan” instead of Azerbaijan. Cambodia somehow dragged in. And instead of the DRC, the Republic of Condo, which sounds less like a country and more like a last-minute holiday booking.

"It’s mind boggling. 8 or 9 wars, all supposedly wrapped up and this one he can’t even begin to finish. Turns out it’s much easier to end wars you can’t name than one you actually started and have to handle."

Yvan StocletYvan Stoclet

"Other observers have made this point. I didn't weigh in on it, but now I have no choice but to weigh in on it. Putin leans towards Israel. There's no question about it and his justification for it does not stand up to reason. The justification was oh there are two million Russian speakers, our passport holders, who live in Israel and we can't see harm done to them. Well, those are no friends of Moscow." 

Gilbert Doctorow