David French

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3,314 appearances 17 recordings 3 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 4d ago

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The Opinions · The New Tactic Trump Thinks Will Rally Voters · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

But don't look at this conflict as sort of two coldly rational parties engaging in negotiation, escalation, et cetera, according to deliberately thought out, strategically valid strategies. voice-verified

Think of it instead as there are elements of strategy here. voice-verified

There are elements of strategy. voice-verified

essentially posturing here. voice-verified

And they're adding together into a situation where both sides tend to have their foot on the gas, as I've used this analogy before, much more than their foot on the brake when it comes to escalation. voice-verified

So now we're beyond escalation. voice-verified

Just the Persian Gulf, we've escalated into the Red Sea. voice-verified

You are seeing very precise and devastating strikes on American facilities that have killed American service members. voice-verified

There is widening amount of damage in the Persian Gulf region. voice-verified

Iran is obviously suffering as well. voice-verified

But the one thing that I will say is I do think, even as Iran is posturing obviously, it does have a strategy. voice-verified

and i'm not sure that we do and its strategy is it wants to emerge from this thing made whole financially and in control the straight of four moves and in when you see that and when you see that strategy at least some of what they're doing makes sense at the same time they continue to provoke and to stretch and to extend beyond really i think their military reach and military capacity so i don't know that they're voice-verified

I think we have two sides that are miscalculating here is a shorter way of saying it. voice-verified

I think we should be, is this a technical term, pretty darn nervous? voice-verified

Pretty darn nervous but not panicked is the way that I would put it. voice-verified

And I think there's also this other element that is overlaying all of this, and that is voice-verified

If until you encounter MAGA up close, it's hard to describe how arrogant it is. voice-verified

And that there is an enormous amount of hubris. voice-verified

If you go back, J.D. voice-verified

Vance, remember, was being asked about this because, you know, the administration had said that Kamala Harris would drive us into war with Iran. voice-verified

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