Peter Thiel breaks with Trump over Iran war: ‘We shouldn’t have done it’

Billionaire tech investor Pierre Thiel said he was skeptical of America’s war on Iran and didn’t think the United States should have launched it, putting the top Republican donor at odds with the president. Donald Trump on one of the administration’s defining foreign policy decisions.

that of Thiel The remarks, delivered October 12 at a private event, are his most explicit statements to be publicly revealed on the war with Iran and come less than two weeks before the midterm elections in which Trump’s The party seeks to retain power in Congress. The audio of that of Thiel comments were obtained by Decrypted by POLITICO from a conference earlier this month.

“I’m skeptical about (the war), I think we shouldn’t have done it,” Thiel said. “A lot of mistakes were made.”

Thiel added: “Maybe we don’t have hard power. Maybe we’ll lose the soft power war.”

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