Benjamin Radd
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first heard Jul 2025
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Yeah, social.
With the
And you see that most on TikTok.
And when after the October 2023 Hamas attacks against Israel, the information warfare between
the two sides and how it played out on college campuses.
I was at a you know a big one where um a lot of that was taking place at UCLA and how that played out on social media and even among high school kids who I talk to and their understanding of conflict is now shaped by what TikTok, which is partially controlled by the um
The Chinese government feeds them and chooses to feed them and amplify.
You mentioned, uh, Andrew talked about Israel and Iran being a proxy war.
So that kind of piqued my interest.
Um I I almost reflexively want to disagree, but I wanna hear more about why you think so so I can better understand proxy conflict from that angle.
But then proxy would imply that Israel is acting as an agent or at the behest of the United States.
So the United States, rather than getting involved directly with Iran up until last week, operates through another entity.
conflict?
If the reasons are different, does that still make one a proxy of the other?
So Iran's uh Israel's objections to Iran and it's it's the reason it sees Iran as as an adversary might differ from the United States.
And there's a Venn diagram, there's some overlap, but there's also a tremendous amount that doesn't overlap.
Same thing with the Saudis, the Gulf states, other regional states that see Iran as a threat.
They see it for different reasons.
Does that still, and I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just trying to understand does that still make them a proxy?
If their motives are different.
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