Benjamin Radd
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 4 Mar
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Again, these norms that are shattered, these restraints, these guardrails that we think, no, a leader wouldn't do this or someone wouldn't do that.
I'm beginning to question all of it too.
I don't know anymore what someone is or isn't capable of, and I think –
humans have a discomfort with cognitive dissonance where, you know, holding two opposing viewpoints at once, we've gotten, I think, worse at it, evolutionary over time.
And our politicians are the worst yet, or our world leaders are the worst at it yet.
And so that's a cause of concern for me.
Yeah, why does he care if he pushes a button and does whatever?
So this is part of the burden sharing strategy that the United States military doctrine has put in place.
And I think to a certain extent, all of the region already knew they were on Iran's radar.
They've all had this weird, hostile, collaborative relationship with Iran out of necessity because Iran is the breadbasket of the Middle East.
So they've known that there's always the risk.
But I don't think they ever took that particular risk seriously.
Why Iran doing it?
Yeah.
They are lowering the pain threshold.
The deputy foreign minister said, we can't strike Americans in America.
We can maybe strike Americans at their bases in these Arab states.
And we can also strike the states that are hosting Americans, American civilians, American military, American contractors, you name it.
They're all complicit.
And it's lashing out.
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