Heather Cox Richardson
speaker
7,479 appearances
87 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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As Krugman pointed out, the Iran war has forced the US to abandon many of its Middle East bases.
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That's why the USS Lincoln couldn't be resupplied.
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and it has little prospect of reclaiming them now that Iran has been emboldened to attack the troops there.
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MS now national security analyst Barry R.
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McCaffrey, a retired Army general, posted Saturday, in my judgment, the US Armed Forces have probably permanently lost access to 15 Persian Gulf bases.
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Iran now poised to control access to the Gulf states.
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US will have to negotiate new access in Western cities.
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Saudi Arabia, Israel, Southern Europe.
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On Sunday in the Atlantic, Robert Kagan noted that the Iran War has reconfigured the Middle East.
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For years Iran was on the ropes, with the US dominating the region alongside countries aligned with the US, including Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
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Now Iran has withstood six months of attacks from the US and Israel.
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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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