Jonathan Capehart:
Well, I’m looking at that with great trepidation. I mean, basically since October 7, the region has been roiling.
And at the center of it is Prime Minister Netanyahu, who understandably going after Hamas in Gaza, but then opening other fronts within the Middle East. And this attack on Iran, it just strikes me that he is doing things that I’m not sure the president of the United States is totally bought in.
I’m not sure whether the United States — whether he’s either listening to American officials, who at least at one point the president was pleading, hey, don’t do anything, hey, Iran, come to the table, and then switching once the attack started, saying, I’m all for it.
But the big thing here is, between what Netanyahu has done with Iran, coupled with what Prime Minister — President Zelenskyy of Ukraine did in terms of not cluing in the United States in the big operation that they did inside, deep inside, Russia, makes me wonder, where’s the United States in all of this? Leave Trump out.
Have world leaders decided to just not think about the United States, not involve the United States simply because of who is in the Oval Office? And when it comes to — they were negotiating right now a new Iran nuclear deal that I — Ramesh, maybe you can tell me. Who’s at the table with the Trump administration in these negotiations?
Because when President Obama was doing it, it was called the P5-plus-one. You had China, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia, plus Germany. Those are the allies. Where are the allies in all of this?