Iran Explained: What Trump's Strike on Iran Means | The Long Game

Okay, I think we're ready to go . So, welcome everybody uh to Jake Sullivan and John Feiner's first ever Substack Live . We are the co-hosts of the podcast The Long Game . Uh for those of you who don't already subscribe, please do and give us a listen . Uh for those who do, we really thank you . And what we're trying to do today is take a few minutes just to react to these striking developments with the United States and Israel uh bombing Iran, Iran responding , the fog of war unfolding. . And we're going to talk a little bit about our reaction to that and also what we think the big questions are going forward . Uh for those who hear this on the pod later , we're recording this on Saturday afternoon , uh just some hours into this series of strikes that the United States and Israel launched and the strikes that Iran has fired back . Uh so by the time you listen to this, there will be new developments . We promise you . And we will look forward to talking about this in full on the next episode of our podcast. But for now, welcome to Substack Live . Welcome to the long game with Jake Sullivan and John Feiner . And John, why don't I turn it over to you to start with your initial reactions to what we've seen happen uh over the course of the past hours and how you know how you're seeing it and kick us off with your thoughts and then we'll dig into some of the issues here . Okay. Thanks Jake and really appreciate people joining uh interrupting your weekend to spend a bit of time with us . wasn't the way we were planning to spend our weekend either . Uh so we're grateful for it and we know uh everybody has a lot going on. I guess my first reaction is like probably almost everybody who is listening right now , as soon as we heard uh that this had begun, this event that we had been talking about on our podcast, reading about uh obsessively , you know, that we had worked on in previous phases of our lives , we all of a sudden realized it's very hard to get immediate accurate information. uh and we are