Julian Borger
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489 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2021
last heard 25 Aug
Julian Borger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This deal, if it is as it stands, will not do that.
Yes, absolutely.
And so it's a really a test of the it's a test of strength between the two men.
Netanyahu has found he can get away with a bit before completely alienating Trump and leading to the kind of outbursts that we've seen in recent weeks.
He has to walk that line because completely alienating the U.S.
also is unpopular news.
uh in is israel he's tried to keep various parts of his coalition together and that means in terms of the relationship with the u.s he has to carefully walk a line show that he has uh independent agency but not piss off the americans so that they take actual you know action to withhold or aid uh something like that something really tangible
Well, from the recent reporting, we've heard that they have retained a lot of their missile capability.
They still have substantial drone capability.
Now, in terms of sort of social cohesion, that's always the unknown, but there hasn't been a major change.
threat to the regime since these attacks.
See, a whole dream of regime change that was really sold to the Americans by the Israelis has not materialized.
So as a regime, it is not under direct threat.
Arguably, it's been strengthened.
The harder line elements, the IRGC, have been strengthened since the war began.
So they believe that they can hold out and that is their strategy to outlast the Americans.
Well, they're only going to target Israeli shipping, so it won't close the Red Sea, which was, of course, a great fear that as well as the Strait of Hormuz, this other vital global portal, the Red Sea, leading up to the Suez Canal, would also be blocked.
They're not doing that because they realize that that would bring on intensive attacks on them once again.
And they're trying to rebuild since the ceasefire with the Americans last year.
They are trying to rebuild.
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