Mike Froman
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first heard Apr 2026
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I feel like there was a potential that the administration did not take sufficient account into the nature of asymmetric warfare.
Henry Kissinger wrote an important article in Foreign Affairs once upon a time about Vietnam, which basically said, the Vietnamese just have to not lose.
The US has to win.
And the same thing could be applied here.
The US has to basically wipe out all the missiles, all the drones, all the capabilities.
What Iran has shown is that no matter how significantly their military capabilities are degraded, if they survive and have a small number of projectiles, they can wreck a fair amount of havoc on the global economy,
We are not immune to that, even though we are a much bigger energy producer than we were a decade or two ago.
And therefore, the pain is felt by us.
And I think what the Iranians have shown, like the Chinese showed on critical minerals, and like the US showed in its control over the dollar financial system, when you've got these choke points, you can really use your leverage in a disproportionate way to bring others to the table.
And that's exactly what Iran has demonstrated.
So look, I think we're likely to get back to a certain degree to where we were before, but with the new factor that the Iranians have now realized or demonstrated their capability of using a choke point as leverage anytime in the future.
I think there's going to be a re-looking at our negotiating objectives.
I mean, for example, the president has said Iran has to commit not to pursue nuclear weapons.
Well, Iran has committed to that for a long period of time.
I think we have to figure out whether they have any ability to refine uranium for any purpose whatsoever, even for just medical purposes, for MRI machines and things of that sort, or excuse me, for radiation machines.
uh x-rays and so i i think we need to sort of look at all of our objectives and see if it's truly negotiable or not you know i think we underestimate we tend to underestimate how much pain the iranians are willing to go through they went through an eight-year war with iraq a tremendous cost to their people their economy their country and i think they feel like again all they have to do is survive as a regime and and therefore they may be less motivated to abandon their long-standing objectives than the u.s thinks
We really don't know.
I mean, given the decapitation of so much of their civilian, religious and military intelligence and military leadership, I don't think we have great visibility into how decisions are being made and communicated down.
we know that at least at some point uh the previous ayatollah had given instructions that if something were to happen local commanders had the authority to act on their own and so um uh this may well be as caddy said sort of uh uh folks just acting on their own before it's been fully implemented and i would hope the us would create at least a degree of patience to make sure that iran has a chance to fully implement what they have allegedly agreed to
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