00:00Nobody understood why they started the war.
00:02They didn't consult their allies and they didn't say what they were really about,
00:07except these vague things about, well, he changed the menu all the time, didn't he?
00:11First of all, it was regime change. Then it wasn't regime change.
00:14Then it was popular uprising and then that wasn't going to happen.
00:16It wasn't popular uprising.
00:18And then, of course, the key point is the possibility of developing a nuclear weapon.
00:23That goes in and out, off and on.
00:25Funnily enough, it's rather off the agenda at the moment.
00:27And then to stop them building missiles and drones and so on.
00:31I tell you, being from a NATO nation and an old NATO nation, it is utterly confusing.
00:36I can't unscramble the spaghetti of Trump language and logic.
00:42And this is the problem with the NATO allies.
00:45What they're doing in Paris is saying, actually, we are very serious about getting the stakes of Hormuz open
00:52and it will be a very difficult condition because as difficult,
00:56it's absolutely clear there's got to be a deal done with Iran.
01:00And it's going to be done with an Iran certainly that America doesn't particularly like.
01:04And certainly it's an Iran that's not much different from the one that existed before February the 28th.
01:10But the world economy, the desperate energy budgets of countries like Britain say this has got to be done within
01:19three or four weeks.
01:21Otherwise, we're in real trouble with key products like fertiliser, but above all gas.
01:28And it's gas more than oil for the West that really counts.
01:31And oil and gas that counts an awful lot for the Chinese.
01:34I think we will get there.
01:36We'll get there within four weeks and it will almost be done with the agency of the Chinese, despite the
01:42Americans.
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