Ben Rhodes

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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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Pod Save the World · Don Jr.’s Big Fat Russian Wedding · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

right now. voice-verified

That's right. voice-verified

We've talked a lot about like munitions shortages. voice-verified

And things like that. voice-verified

Well, this is when the rubber hits the road on that because, like, ultimately, we do have finite resources of this stuff, whether it's aircraft carriers or missile defense batteries or what have you. voice-verified

And we've kind of reached that state, you know, and the Iranians know that. voice-verified

And so they can turn the dial. voice-verified

I mean, they've been smart. voice-verified

Like, they... voice-verified

know after focusing on the gulf member they were focusing their missile attacks on jordan like voice-verified

suddenly a new theater and now their proxies are on the offense in yemen and and they have you know one of the missile strikes on uh the pipeline came from iraq right um and the iraqis of course said well we had nothing to do with it but it came from iraq and so we kept hearing under biden and trump how you know we've destroyed all these iranian proxy networks well voice-verified

Apparently not. voice-verified

And part of the thing you realize, and I experienced this when I was in government, is like it doesn't take much to kind of replenish these guys. voice-verified

You know, like give them some drones. voice-verified

I mean, you know, the online pieces, like these guys have Toyotas and RPGs and drones and like routed the Saudi-backed Yemeni forces. voice-verified

Like it does not take much to reconstitute these proxy forces. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

And at a time when we're overstretched and we can't fight the kind of eight-front war that Israel started in the Middle East, Israel is notably sitting out the war after getting us to fight it. voice-verified

We just can't cover all that terrain. voice-verified

Yeah, because they're like mercenaries for hire or just people collecting salaries. voice-verified

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