Benjamin Radd

speaker

1,820 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2025 last heard 4 Mar

Benjamin Radd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Mar 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · WW3 Threat Assessment: "Trump Bombing Iran Just Increased Nuclear War Threat" The Terrifying Reality · 4 Mar 2026 podcast

It's incredible.

When you hear the speeches that come out of Marco Rubio's mouth or Pete Hegseth's mouth, what do you hear more than any other term?

You hear the name of the president.

Usually you hear we or the government or this administration.

It's not around a personality.

So it's a very interesting situation because there's so much of a person at stake here.

And everybody surrounding the office of the president is only there because they are respecting, kissing the ring of the personality in the center.

So I want to come to that point because the very fact that we have an Islamic Republic is a direct result of a failure of American intelligence to see that threat.

As early as 1976, 77, a failure to inform then President Carter to do the necessary, take the necessary steps to support the Shah and to neutralize that threat.

So the United States track record in Iran for the last 40 or 50 years is abysmal when it comes to intelligence and when it comes to statecraft.

And so there's that legacy, number one.

October 7, 2023, the Hamas attack against Israel changed the dynamic entirely.

That attack surprised Israeli intelligence, it surprised Americans, it surprised almost anybody watching.

Nobody thought Hamas was going to do that when they did it and the means in which they did it.

So all of a sudden that forced a recalibration, a recalculation of what's at stake, what could happen.

If we wait for an imminent threat till we see actually the sign outside the door, it's too late.

So from the president's perspective, to answer your original question, why now, why do this?

I believe the October 7th attacks, and it's not at the behest of Israel necessarily.

It's the idea that Iran, we know, finances Hamas, subsidizes Hamas, trains Hamas, equips Hamas, provides logistical support on many levels so that Hamas can be what it was, and Hezbollah also.

So you have these destabilizing non-state problems.

Showing 161–180 of 1,820 · page 9 of 91