Krystal Ball
speaker
43,233 appearances
230 recordings
6 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 4d ago
Krystal Ball’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Uh, let me read Joe Kent's reaction to this very triggering tweet.
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He says it's only a matter of time before we take casualties on one of our naval ships or a US contracted vessel, some of which may be carrying US personnel.
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Right.
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The chances of a mass casualty event happening on a ship are much higher than on a land base because it's obviously much harder to evacuate sailors from a ship.
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They're sitting ducks.
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This would be a catastrophic and tragically avoidable.
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Loss of our sailors and certainly would not get us any closer to achieving our objectives in Iran, whatever those may be at this point, a more callous perspective, but which seems to be the one that gets a response out of Washington, is that it would be disastrous before the midterms, in that it would force the president to escalate a very unpopular war.
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To eliminate this risk, we have to remove our ships and bases from the region.
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And he goes on to say what he's been saying for a while: the president can just say he ended and won the war ahead.
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of the new November midterms, then use the potential of unfreezing funds along with measured sanctions relief to incentivize the Iranians to open the Strait of Hormuz.
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Um I think, you know, given his uh background and expertise, hearing that coming from him is quite significant.
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There's so much about this that is wild.
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I mean, Iran is at least like a middle income country, large population, highly educated, like, you know, pretty advanced.
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Yemen is one of the poorest countries on the planet.
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Right.
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Right?
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No,
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And s and so for us to basically just acknowledge that we're not we are not going to defeat you.
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We tried, we failed, we are going to let you continue to attack uh one of our our our most significant ally in the region.
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We are going to allow you to take control of the strategic waterway, and we're just not gonna get involved.
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