Ben Rhodes
speaker
11,580 appearances
35 recordings
12 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 6d ago
Ben Rhodes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, missiles, drones.
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So they've now called our escalation and like 10x'd it.
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because us blowing some tankers out of the water so that we can feel tough, and Scott Besson gets to have his press day on economic D-Day with very little results.
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Well, this is material escalation.
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And I think it's the Iranians sending a message that we can keep doing this.
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So that's the state of the war.
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That's the state of the energy markets.
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And then the third thing I'd just say by way of introduction is,
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This is putting in peril like the entire Saudi model, right?
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Because the Saudi model is, you know, we depend on all this oil revenue to finance this,
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know, lavish kingdom and all these things that MBS likes to do and spread the money around enough to kind of keep the rest of population okay.
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And yet, you know, their own military is somewhat of a paper tiger, despite how much money they spent on it.
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They kind of need the U.S.
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military to kind of maintain that bargain.
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And what did they just learn?
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Well, they learned that they can't, on their own, prevent the Houthis from taking over large tracts of Yemen and attacking their energy infrastructure that is existential to them.
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That when they call the United States,
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Trump is like, ah, you know, well, the Houthis seem nice on the phone.
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I was wondering like who the Houthis called, you know?
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Yeah.
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