Dave Davies
speaker
5,382 appearances
57 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 7 Sep
Dave Davies’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We recorded our interview yesterday.
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Stacy Petty John, welcome to Fresh Air.
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You know, I'm interested in how you thought this war might unfold when it began, uh you know, February twenty-eighth of this year.
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You know, it seems at this point that President Trump is clearly frustrated.
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He wants to bring the war to a conclusion in which his goals are met.
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It is not happening.
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When this war began, you know, certain things were apparent.
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I mean the United States and Israel had enormous will and capability to inflict enormous damage and death with airstrikes, but were very unlikely to commit ground troops, which would be costly and politically risky.
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I'm just wondering when this started.
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What did your own knowledge and intuition tell you about how it might go?
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There's been a lot of reporting that this conflict has depleted supplies of critical munitions among U.S.
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arsenals.
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That's been disputed by the administration.
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There was a Washington Post report that a couple of weeks ago Trump confronted uh Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a cabinet retreat at Camp David, saying he thought this issue had been addressed, and Hegseth blamed one of his deputies for the problem, the White House press secretary.
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called this a hundred percent fake news.
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Do you find these reports credible?
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Patriot missiles cost about four million each, is that right?
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Is the concern that the US won't be able to defend its Gulf allies and US bases, or that it'll be less able to launch offensive strikes against Iran or or both.
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And are there cases where you can see these shortages having an effect on a battlefield strategy and tactics, specific cases where the effect is clear?
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Has the United States rotated some of its forces out of the region, some of those that had been used in the initial attacks on Iran?
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