Heather Cox Richardson
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6,928 appearances
79 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Its survival has reconfigured the power structure of the region, with Iran emerging as the area's dominant power, as it has demonstrated its ability to damage the oil and gas infrastructure of its neighbors.
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It is plain, Kagan wrote, that Washington fears escalation more than Iran does, limiting what the US can do, as Iran not only exercises the right to collect tolls on vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, but also decides who can use the strait.
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That control, Kagan notes, gives Iran leverage every day over dozens of countries.
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It can reward friends, punish enemies, extract revenue, force the loosening of sanctions, and make governments think twice before opposing Iranian policies without firing a shot.
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The policy of Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hanksith to bring a warrior ethos to the Pentagon by putting it on offense, not just on defense, using maximum lethality, not tepid legality, and having violent effect not politically correct is
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has given the US a tremendous loss in Iran.
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And a report today from Megan Rose and Hannah Alam of ProPublica suggests that officers in US Central Command recognized the dangers of Heggs' approach to warfare.
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Rose and Alam report that when Hankseth polled top commanders about cutting the civilian harm mitigation and response program instituted after civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan hardened opposition to the US, they universally objected.
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Current and former defense officials told the journalists that Hegzeth apparently thought senior officers would agree with him that focusing on civilian security was woke and would hamper maximum lethality.
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Instead, they uniformly disagreed, warning that scaling back the effort to protect civilians would result in decreased efficiency of US lethal operations due to an increased risk of target misidentification and reduced battle space awareness.
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Hegzith gutted the program anyway, and US strikes have killed hundreds of civilians.
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Now, it appears the administration is considering rebuilding the program.
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Social media this morning picked up that a US Air Force transport aircraft that had taken off from Joint Base Andrews near Washington DC landed in Moscow.
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Later reports said the US official traveling to Moscow was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency or CIA, John Ratcliffe.
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There's been lots of speculation about the purpose of his trip to Moscow, but so far it's all guesses.
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Journalist Greg Sargent notes that Trump's trade war with Canada will hit the Midwest right before the midterms.
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Josh Turrick, the Democratic candidate for the U.S.
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Senate from Iowa, and a leading voice for a new prairie populism that works for farmers, told Sargent, It's a really dangerous time to be a farmer in the Midwest.
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You talk to farmers and they'll tell you it's one gut punch.
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after another, Turek said.
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