Dr. Nicholas Wright
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 6 Feb
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So I think back in 2003, the invasion of Iraq by the United States was about regime change.
It was about changing the regime and then implementing a new regime, bringing a new regime in Iraq.
And the United States is prepared to do what it took to create that new regime.
I don't think that's anymore how the United States is thinking about things.
I think that now it is going back to a much older way
a way of using lethal force or the threat of lethal force, which is that you are trying to create effects in other countries, somewhere like Iran.
Now, if you can get them to change what they're doing, either because the regime changes what it's doing,
doing, chooses to do, or because that part of the regime is overthrown and, for example, a military dictatorship takes over or whatever, then you can achieve your goals.
And the goals for the United States, I think, now are, and this is really certainly, I think, if you read a lot of what is said,
It's not so much about democracy promotion anymore.
It is not about spreading American ideas so much directly in somewhere like Iran anymore.
I think it's much more about increasing American and American allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia, increasing their security, their profits and their power and
To some extent, however that's achieved in Iran, I think that's the way the US will go.
And that's new in our time, although, of course, it's how most of the world has acted throughout human history.
So, I mean, that's for Americans to decide how much it wants to spend abroad.
But I think it's always important to remember that if other great powers dominate the Eurasian landmass, then America is not going to be secured.
Even if the United States dominated the whole of the Western Hemisphere, that is now only about 13% of the world's population.
So America cannot entirely withdraw purely to the Western Hemisphere.
And even if it did do that, that doesn't mean other countries won't be worried about what America could choose to do.
Remember, the Japanese were the ones who bombed Pearl Harbor.
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