Ian Bremmer
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12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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They're hitting very few.
actual infrastructure targets.
They've hit a couple bridges, a power plant, a desalination plant, but there are thousands of those in Iran.
Most of the focus of the two weeks of strikes, 11 days of strikes, has been at military targets.
And the Iranians have hit back basically in a tit-for-tat way.
So they get one desalination plant hit, they hit one.
They get a bridge hit, they hit a bridge.
But there's been a military, they take military hits.
They aim at U.S.
base in Jordan and they cause some casualties there.
But this is very far away.
from the kind of all out war that we had back at the end of February, the beginning of March.
And that is despite the fact that Trump continues to threaten that he's gonna destroy all their infrastructure and that he'll rain hell upon the Iranians.
And he has, of course, a very substantial military, the world's largest, which is positioned to do a lot more damage, but he's not doing that.
So why is there this level of restraint
from Trump?
And the answer is that even though Trump knows the midterms are lost, and even though he is prepared to accept higher oil prices for longer,
He knows that the damage that the Iranians can do in response to the United States actually following through on the big threats that he has made are unacceptable.
Unacceptable in terms of the casualties to American soldiers and military capabilities, and unacceptable to American allies in the region across the Gulf.
So that has, if the first set of factors that I mentioned have prevented us from achieving stability and reopening the strait, the second set of factors has prevented these resumption of hostilities from returning to all out war and the potential for broader conflagration.
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