Benjamin Radd
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 4 Mar
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No, Putin's a whole different beast.
What that's a message to is the leader of Cuba.
Yeah, Cuba is going to say he's next.
And if you follow what the United States considers to be the four state sponsors of terrorism, the only one that remains after Cuba is North Korea.
It's one of the only countries in the Western Hemisphere that does not fall under the United States' sphere of influence.
Oh, the arrival of the Mahdi and that whole thing, right, sort of creating the conditions for that to come about.
Though that regime is not suicidal.
I will sort of state that Khamenei was prepared to die for his cause, but he was not suicidal in the sense that he would go out and sort of – if he could, I don't think, start a nuclear war that he knew his country was going to –
get destroyed fighting.
That is, I think, you know, one distinction.
And I'm not saying North Korea is suicidal, but definitely what remains of the government there is not suicidal.
I don't think there is ideological diehards as we saw in the founding fathers of which Khamenei was the last one.
So that changes it a little bit now that he's dead.
You know, there's a philosopher, Eric Hoffer, he sort of wrote that great causes start as movements, then they become businesses, then they become rackets.
OK, so Khomeini's movement that started in the 70s, that was the movement.
It became a business, a enterprise of which the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps profited immensely till it became a racket.
And now we're at the racket phase of it.
And the only one really left are the racketeering leaders, you know, because the spiritual leaders are now gone.
What happens next, I think, is sort of, you know, we're now in very much an unknown territory with that.
I think the assumption is that no one will mess with you with nuclear weapons.
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