Benjamin Radd
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 4 Mar
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It violated an unspoken agreement with its Arab neighbors that they don't directly fight each other in this way.
And its allies, so-called allies, have abandoned it.
It has nothing left.
So when you have nothing left, what is there to fight for?
That's why, but that's going to take a few months up to a year to play out.
I think for me, what I always come back to is what is the future for the average American?
What does it look like for us?
I'm not sure how this plays out.
I'm not sure that we improved the state of the average American very much in the last few days.
I don't know that we will see much improvement in the next few weeks.
I don't know that we will see much improvement in the next few years because of what actions we took in Iran.
But I do confirm, I agree with what the other two have said, like the United States administration has shown it's powerful in Venezuela, it's powerful in Iran.
Cuba's already being more than whispered about as the next transition in government.
How much chaos are we going to see to the existing world establishment before Trump then leaves office and somebody else has to come in and pick up the mess?
And I've always been concerned not about Donald Trump but about who comes after Donald Trump.
Because if Donald Trump paves the way for this authoritarian type of shift and if he has support through his final days in office, then whoever comes next will have even more legitimacy to come in with a strong hand from the beginning.
And potentially a world where only authoritarian actions work.
And that just continues to take us down a road of pain.
I've been talking to you about this for the better part of three years, that I believe the world, and especially the United States, is coming into one of its darkest decades ever.
This is the world that we live in now, a world where it's not unipolar, a world of AI technologies we can't predict, of conflict that we can't anticipate, of mass surveillance, of the breaking of international norms.
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