Ben Rhodes
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126 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Aug
Ben Rhodes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Uh, it tells you if you still need to know anything more about his character, it tells you everything.
Well, I mean's view of the conflict is clearly that they have all the leverage, that they've already won in some ways, because their regime is still in place.
That was an objective of Trump's that failed.
They still have a nuclear program.
That was an objective of Trump's that failed.
And they control the Strait of Four Moose.
And that aircraft carrier's presence uh doesn't reopen the Strait of Four Moose magically.
And so when they see that and they see an American public that has no idea why we're there and is against the war.
Um, they they know that uh ultimately um Donald Trump doesn't know what he's doing and doesn't have like any leverage diplomatically to compel the Iranians to do what he wants.
Um but they also see, frankly, a country that, you know, you know, I I I one of the things, you know, Jim, when I travel around and people admired how much the United States supported its own military, how much we left no person behind, uh how much
We tried to care for military families.
That was part of having the strongest fighting force in the world.
And now they see an America that doesn't even seem to care about the people that it puts in harm's way.
Make no mistake, these people are in harm's way.
And they see a Secretary of Defense and Pete Hegseth, who not only dismisses this as fake news, but he dismisses any concerns about mental health.
You know, we don't want to woke military.
Military.
We don't want we want tough guys who take, you know, testosterone supplements that you
used to read about in the back of right wing magazines or something, you know, like the that mentality, uh, now we're seeing what that looks like in practice.
You know, when it's a TED talk at the Pentagon where T Pete Except is trying to sound tough it's one thing, we are seeing what it means to have a comm chain of command, the president and the Secretary of Defense who don't care about the well being of the troops and the rest of the world sees that too.
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