Curt Mills
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190 appearances
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3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 25 Mar
Curt Mills’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I mean, if you don't come in with huge foreign policy convictions, as I think you and I do, he can be very persuasive.
I am. I mean, so I think that's what's very interesting about some of these Pentagon picks, not to keep linking it back, but also the vice president. A lot of these people, my generation, the millennials, fought in these wars. Oh, yeah. And although the baby boomers forget it, we're now old, you know, and we grew up and we're quite mad about it. And it's a bipartisan thing.
It's not just like a Democrat, you know, anti-Iraq war, indie music thing. It's like young Republican people hate it too. Yeah. And they might hate it more, actually, which is actually the interesting thing. And the Republican Party, frankly, under Trump, might be a vessel of anti-war sentiment far more effectively than the Democrats. I mean, I didn't see a lot of protests for the Ukraine war.
The Israel stuff was pretty interesting. That probably was the number one threat to Biden circa April. Remember that? For sure. But... you know, if you look at the conversation online, if you look at the sentiments of younger conservatives, younger Republicans, the anti-war stuff is big and it is not going anywhere.
And I think that also drives a sense of a timetable, which is, you know, we've got these older people in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. They have a certain belief set. They're the people that voted for the stuff in the 90s and 2000s. And we get this stuff done now before the United States turns, you know, both parties on this stuff.
No, you can't do that anymore. I'm hoping people are zoned out. You do think that? Yeah, I think they're hoping the country's old, tired, zoned out, can't oppose it. And they're hoping that these initiatives can be achieved piecemeal. You know, start by bombing Iran here, et cetera, et cetera. Maybe the government will collapse, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
To take the other side, the Assad thing is pretty close to the best case scenario of how that could have gone. I think in Iran it would go way, way, way worse. It's a much bigger country.
You start killing people and things go sideways. It's pretty close to Iraq and Afghanistan combined, right? It feels that way to me. You have the capacity for major urban violence a la Iraq. You have huge cities. The Kabul is small, but you have that. And then additionally, you have the mountain element. So any... any outlaw contingent can just flee there.
I mean, and we learned this with our southern neighbor. Why is Mexico ungovernable? The mountains. You just flee. I mean, the entire coastline is... Why is Kentucky ungovernable? Same reason. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I mean, so... Just kidding. No, no. I mean, it's hard to... It would be very, very, very difficult. And ask Saddam Hussein, who tried to invade Iran and didn't work out for Mr. Hussein.
A lot of things didn't, so...
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