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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On the other hand, they cannot be seen to be shying away from defending America.
Hezbollah and taking action alongside Iran in case of an extremist.
So the Houthis too have to walk a line.
They don't want to bring in the full wrath of the Americans on them, but they want to show that they are still a player.
I think the whole thing remains really fragile.
As long as they can't come to an overall deal, then the situation in the region is really dangerous, especially as you have someone in the middle of that.
This is Benjamin Netanyahu himself.
who is in his interest to keep a conflict going and to, in his eyes, finish the job with Iran.
Though, from his point of view, they're still unfinished business, which makes this sort of limbo between war and peace that we're in at the moment all the more dangerous.
Thank you.
This is The Guardian.
Sometimes he affects not to really care about the Strait of Hormuz and other times he seems almost desperate to get this resolved.
We are seeing a Trump that's less worried about concerns back home because, after all, he's not going to stand for election himself, and someone who is more concerned about the legacy he leaves on the world stage.
He's less comparing himself to Washington and Lincoln these days and more to Alexander the Great, Napoleon, which is worrying for all of us.
Yeah, absolutely.
Because what this new initiative does is it brings U.S.
warships close to Iranian ships, small boats, drones.
And so as they're in proximity to each other in a very tight waterway, then the chance of something blowing up are much greater than they were yesterday.
Well, what they're offering is an alternative route out of the Strait of Hormuz.
that would go well south of the established shipping channels and kind of hug the coast and go within Omani territorial waters.
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