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BABA: “Yeah, I mean, I think that that’s well put. And and, you know, some of his allies have previously tried to say like, oh, this is this unpredictability is for a purpose. You know, he’s doing he’s trying to act crazy in order to get concessions, which I guess is the mad man theory. But the problem is if you do the madman theory and you have no theory, you’re just left with a madman, right? There was no theory of the case here. There’s no actual goals. There’s no actual thought out concessions here. David, as you’ve outlined and also in your reporting, basically what is on the table right now for this deal is to solve a problem that was created by the war itself on February 27th, as you outlined the Strait of Hormuz. That was the day before the strikes. It was open. And now we’re trying to get right back to that. We’re not even talking”