Gregg Carlstrom
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319 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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So I think there was a
fundamental miscalculation there on the part of the Americans.
And then the way they went into this war, the idea that Iran might try and close the Strait of Hormuz is something that planners in the Pentagon and elsewhere in the US government have been aware of for decades.
It's a threat that they took seriously.
It's something that they war-gamed around for many, many years.
And the Trump administration seems to have simply discarded all of that and blundered into a war without realizing that Iran might do this very obvious thing in response.
So I think it goes to show just how inept the planning and the preparation was for this.
in a very unhappy position, I think, for a couple of reasons.
One is that we've seen very clearly that America's interests and Israel's interests have diverged here.
Trump really wants to make a deal with the Iranians that reopens the strait, that gets oil and other commodities moving again.
And it's a deal that, from Israel's perspective, looks like a bad deal.
It's not going to address Iran's missile program.
It's not going to address...
the question of Iranian support for groups like Hezbollah around the region.
These are things that Israel considers priorities that the Trump administration is willing to ignore in the pursuit of a deal that reopens Hormuz.
So we've had a break on substance.
We have a bad deal from Israel's point of view.
And then on top of that, I think Israel has also done
real harm to its standing in Washington and in America over the past few months, where you now have a not insignificant chunk of both liberal Democrats and more isolationist Republicans who are angry with Israel for what they see as Benjamin Netanyahu's effort to drag the Trump administration forward.
into this war.
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