Benjamin Radd
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We don't know.
But when it happens, arguably it's going to be justified.
To Andrew's point, Iran can wage a war of attrition.
It's harder.
A war of attrition is basically low-level warfare.
Think of like death by a thousand cuts, right?
I'll just keep poking at you enough to eventually wear you down, destabilize you, weaken you.
Whereas what you can do is massive retaliation and these big sort of theatrical strikes.
War of attrition is basically grinding attrition.
For the long haul and wearing you down.
This is something that, to his point, Iran is capable of doing and is probably willing to do and sees is the only way that it can survive this.
Who needs that?
It's whatever remnant is left.
It's how Russia has survived so long.
It's a war of attrition.
That's what the lesson is.
To your point of who the leadership would be, something else that that philosopher I quoted, Eric Hoffer, had said that mass movements, they don't need a god, but they do need a devil.
So to that effect, the leader doesn't matter as much as having an enemy does.
So basically, so long as we, the United States or the Western world, is framed as the enemy, that is enough to keep a war of attrition going, absent any figurehead or a charismatic leader.
He was a religious figure.
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