Michael Weiss
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
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there is just utter contempt for, you know, the Mullahs.
There is utter contempt for the IRGC, for the Besiege at the popular level in Iran.
So there's a lot of human capital.
And, you know, it's true, we have done things like we smuggled in Starlink communication devices so that the protesters could record what was happening.
Again, there's a war and a covert side of things that we simply don't know because it is covert, right?
And will only come to light later on.
Maybe people have been recruited.
Maybe people inside the regime are making discreet outreach to the West and to the Israelis or whomever.
The other thing I would just caution is
I just read a very long deep dive bit of reporting in The Guardian by Sean Walker about the lead up to the full scale invasion of Ukraine, how the US and the UK knew that the war was coming and got that absolutely right, but then completely cocked up how the war was going to go.
And why did they cock it up?
Because they took the Russian military's estimation of itself at face value.
We are a, a, a bright, shiny army that has been completely rehabilitated and reformed.
And there is not a chance in health that this little country called Ukraine can put up a fight.
Kiev in three, and then we're at the border with Poland in two weeks.
And that just proved to be utterly catastrophically wrong, right?
So I'm very, very leery of taking what a regime, a dictatorship, totalitarian dictatorship says, um,
at face value, right?
Like they might believe their own propaganda, but we shouldn't.
So is it the case that a confrontation with them would be kind of, you know, the death knell of American military?
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