Alastair Crooke

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913 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 9 Jun

Alastair Crooke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I mean, that he could take out humans
This is a big country.
I mean, a huge country.
95 million people, you know, infrastructure and industry.
I mean, the size of the whole of Western Europe across it.
I mean, how could he, how would you do this by any conventional means?
I don't understand.
Maybe he was deliberately hinting at some sort of nuclear device, but I can't tell.
But that's, I suppose, one possibility of what he meant by this would be the death of a civilization and it would not return again in the future.
It would be over.
Well, how would you do that in such a big state?
I don't know.
Or maybe he was just talking and didn't really mean what he was saying.
It was bluster.
We just don't know.
This makes it very difficult for not just the Iranians, but everyone sort of negotiating in this time because they're finding it very difficult to understand what is now Trump's ambition.
It seems to me that he wants to get out of this war to which he was invited by Netanyahu.
and enthusiastically accepted.
He wants to get out because he has this timeline.
The midterm elections are coming up.
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