John Bolton

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392 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 20 Mar

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They could use assistance, but they really need coordination with us.

And I don't think that's happening.

So three weeks in, it looks to me like while the military side is generally going well, I'm very worried about the potential outcome.

So coming to this question of a rift between the US and Israel, there could well be divergent objectives.

I think it's undoubtedly the case that Netanyahu and Israel nearly united on this point.

want to see regime change.

Now, whether Trump's prepared to see it through or not, I just don't know.

It could be that there are tactical disagreements should Israel have hit the Iranian refining facilities for the South Pars gas field.

Clearly, Trump says no, whether that is hindsight or whether he said it at the time, we don't know.

But I don't think necessarily tactical disagreements really make that much difference.

If you look at the history of World War Two, Churchill and Roosevelt on behalf of the UK and the US had major differences over strategy.

Dealing with Charles de Gaulle and the French resistance was a whole nother question.

You can have common objectives and still beat each other's brains out on how to get there.

I think Netanyahu and Trump have enough of a relationship that it's not going to frustrate achieving the objective, assuming they agree on it.

Well, I think this is the way Trump does business.

It's almost always chaotic because he doesn't he doesn't think in strategic terms.

He certainly doesn't have a coherent national security strategy.

I mean, his administration wrote one.

They wrote one in the first term, too.

He didn't read the one in the first term.

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