Benjamin Radd

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My family came here on that basis.
And I basically spent the next 40 some odd years trying to understand why I come from a part of the world that seems to be in sort of continuous conflict and turmoil, and exactly what can be understood about the
That brought me here.
I'm incredibly grateful to be here.
And what can be done to basically change or at least better understand it to pave a way for change and progress in the futures.
I was uh just under three years old and it was uh a few months after so the Shah had left in December of seventy-nine, and then um we we left a few months after that, around March.
Khomeini had just arrived from Paris on a flight in in February, basically taking control.
And there was still a lot of anarchy and chaos as to exactly what the new regime would look like, what the government would look like.
But we began my parents began
fantasy that there were some, you know, there were there were definitely mass arrests, there were protests, there were things that were happening that looked like those who were loyal to the monarchy would be targeted, which is my family was a monarchist.
I don't think since the the beginning of the Cold War, let's say let's go back to nineteen forty seven or forty eight, I don't think we've stopped fighting.
I just think we're fighting wars of different kinds.
So I think this idea of kinetic warfare is
less frequent, especially among the major powers.
So um Israel and Iran is an example of one of the last few gasps of kinetic warfare.
But if we look at
United States and China, United States and Russia.
European powers, NATO.
It's less kinetic than it is more through um use of information, through technology, through cyber warfare.
What's kinetic?
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