James Landale
speaker
231 appearances
6 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 8 Jun
James Landale’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But equally, what's become apparent is that the tactical gains, the numbers of things destroyed, et cetera, have not translated into strategic victories.
And now Donald Trump is trying to extract himself from a conflict
where the two main belligerents are refusing to play ball.
So you have Iran basically undeterred, surviving, still willing in an emboldened regime, despite the fact that Israel has assassinated the vast swathes of the leadership.
There's this sort of new cadre of revolutionary guards and others who have just picked up the pieces and have a different attitude to the previous because they're younger.
They're sort of post-revolutionary.
They're not people who've grown up during the 79 revolution.
And so they are much more.
You know, the era of strategic patience and slow and gradual retaliation by Iran.
This is this is immediate retaliation.
You know, they think more hot headed.
Well, no, it's not so much hot headed.
It's just they are willing to act more ruthlessly and quicker than their predecessors.
And Donald Trump is finding it hard to sort of use some leverage on them despite the talks that are going on at the moment.
And at the same time, as Katrina was pointing out, we've seen perhaps some of the limitations of the influence of an American president over an Israeli leader.
And this is not a new phenomenon.
There are many examples of past American presidents losing their patience with Israeli leaders.
In particular, Mr Netanyahu.
But Donald Trump is struggling to extract himself from a conflict.
And that is in part because his priorities, his interests, i.e.
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