And once he explained it, the whole picture clicked into place.
His read is that Trump's U-turn was never about morality or turning on Israel.
It was pure economic desperation.
Trump admitted it himself at the G7, that the US was four weeks from an oil-driven economic collapse.
Malcolm, an intelligence veteran, called that Trump's black hole moment, the confession he'd avoided for three weeks.
But here's the dangerous part.
While Trump scrambled to sign his deal, Netanyahu formally decoupled Israel's military strategy from the United States.
Trump can threaten his career, dangle the Epstein files, drop him in the polls, 46 points in Israel in three weeks, and it doesn't matter.
On Lebanon, Trump no longer controls him. "All of Lebanon must burn" and the leveling of every border village is what decoupling looks like in practice
The chilling implication Malcolm raised? A decoupled Israel could try to assassinate Mojtaba Khamenei at his own father's funeral, without waiting for a US green light.
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