Curt Mills
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first heard Jan 2025
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This is actually just a ridiculous externality. But I think it is worth noting that... We have done wars toppling governments throughout the region over the last 25 years. So number one, it's happened very recently. Number two, it is kind of the explicit goal of the hardliners. And the hardliners keep moving the overage window in their direction.
And so while this is perhaps not 100% certain, hardly, there is a hard drive towards doing this and picking off Pentagon deputies and allowing leaders like Trump and Vance to be surrounded by hawks and no dissenting voices whatsoever. Yes. Is absolutely essential towards any road to war.
Well, there's precedent for this. So what you're just, I don't know. I don't know any of the people you just described personally.
Okay, so a lot of people are comparing Trump to Reagan these days. Yeah. And I think it is an inaccurate comparison, but there obviously are comparisons that are very different human beings, is basically my position. So if you accept that Trump is the biggest cheese since Reagan on the Republican side, what happened in the Reagan years?
So the neoconservatives, that is people who came from the left and moved to the right, were very, very savvy conservatives. effective and reasonable at domestic policy. They were very, very good on the crime issues of the day. And their periodicals gained currency because, hey, actually we should clean up the streets of New York, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Yeah. But by the 90s and 2000s, you know, if you believed in, you know, some crime enforcement in New York, you also had to believe towards the march towards regime change in Iraq. And so, again, I don't want to sound- I'm skipping that part of the buffet line.
But I think it is the essential pitch of this new generation of neoconservatism, which of course does not call itself that. But it is moderation on the social issues. Let's turn down the volume.
And at the same time, over here in the column space over here, a little... little news item about what's going on in the Red Sea and why the U.S. needs to care. And it's a drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, and it can go on for months and years and years and years. And all of a sudden, we super care about the Houthis in Yemen. We super care about
iran and we have to underwrite a war in israel until every single member of hamas is dead and it's just not clear that the u.s international u.s national interest is there to put it lightly
Yeah.
Bill Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard.
That was the absolute launching point magazine of the Iraq War.
I mean, probably the most successful political organizer of the last 30 years.
I think it makes it impossible for the new president to do what he's promised to do if he doesn't solve this conundrum. Tell me what you mean. So, I mean, if the president wants to send troops to the U.S.
border, and the president wants to rebuild the American economy, and the president wants to focus on China, and the president wants the moral credibility to end the Russia-Ukraine war at some point, expanding the war in the Middle East, even with prolonged arms sales, his political capital. Who's going to pay for that? The United States.
Well, it's a very complex topic. We don't have any functioning community hospitals left. We have the reserve currency and we can keep writing debt until it causes an inflation crisis, which a lot of people thought would happen earlier and did not. And even our inflation crisis in the 2020s was mild by global standards.
So accordingly, we've got plenty of room for the big enchilada, which is an Iran war.
Well, the big question is right now, so there's a new Iranian president. So the previous Iranian president died along with his foreign minister in a helicopter accident over the summer. A little mysterious. Are you going to use air quotes around accident or – I mean, a lot of things happened last year. It's very possible. I mean, I don't think... Everyone got killed last year.
The Iranians' equipment, helicopter equipment, to my understanding, is old. And it is a rough part of the world. And it's possible that it... It's likely that it just went down. And again, I would say...
Yeah, yeah. And again, if you think it was Israel, the Israelis pretty much took credit or didn't deny all the other assassinations that occurred last year. I don't, you know. Leading of Hamas leadership, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
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