What We’ve Learned From 10 Days of War

From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily. Over the past few days, what began as a relentless US Israeli military assault on Iran has drawn in at least 14 countries from Lebanon. I, with my family, lives in a neighborhood just outside of Beirut. We are having to wake up in the middle of the night at 4AM or 5AM, 6AM hearing these missiles and bombs constantly hitting our neighborhoods and our people. To The United Arab Emirates. We heard, some explosions from the interceptors, and that's when we went with, my family to the basement, to get some shelter. To Saudi Arabia. We were all on the plane. I came from Saudi Arabia. Everything was fine to go, and they told us to get off. They said it wasn't safe to fly because of the missiles. So we all thought we were gonna be stranded. As the conflict has transformed into a region wide crisis. And now, the impacts of that war are going global. A major shipping route for oil has effectively been shut down amid this war, sending shock waves through the markets with As the disruption of the world's oil market spreads from The Middle East to Europe, Asia, and North America. The price of crude oil has risen above $100 a barrel as the Strait Of Hormuz is effectively closed and Iranian fuel depots are battered. Today, Eric Schmidt on what we're learning about all the players involved in this conflict from a week of war. It's Tuesday, March 10. Eric, thank you for making time for us. We appreciate it. Sure. Of course. So we wanted to speak with you one week or so into this war about what has been accomplished or has failed to be accomplished by all the major governments involved in this conflict. And the way I wanted to loosely organize our conversation was by starting off with what has been done to Iran by The US and Israel in the first half of this episode, and then in the second half, walk through what Iran in retaliation has done to the region and the world, if that makes sense to you. That makes a lot of sense. Okay. So with that blessing, we will proceed. We know quite well at this point that The United States' objectives in this conflict have whipsawed, starting with the mission of getting rid of Iran's nuclear program, then it became outright regime change, then it was The US being willing to work with regime insiders to this latest demand for president Trump for total regime surrender. So, overall, a pretty incoherent set of messages. Given that, let's focus on what we know has actually happened on the ground, the targets that The US and Israel have struck, and what shape that has left the regime in. And I think we can get pretty detailed and specific here. So where do you wanna start? Okay. So about ten days …