Professor Robert Pape

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256 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 12 Mar

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That's not just a danger to, say, Basra.

That's a danger to Tel Aviv as well.

And what is Netanyahu exactly going to do here?

Are they seriously going to put ground troops in?

Are they seriously going to think about nuclear escalation?

I mean, this is the kind of things you've got to scratch your head and say, what are they actually thinking?

Because this dispersal of this material, none of those options are guaranteed to protect.

So this really is not, I would say, in Israel's interest.

But they've got their stated views, and they may disagree.

And as they disagree, then the real divergence here is between their stated or thinking and the actual reality that they are facing.

That's the real issue here.

Yeah, the most disastrous campaign was probably Bill Clinton's campaign in March 1999 when he had a three-day bombing campaign.

He thought it would be three days to hit 51 regime targets in and around Belgrade, including Milosevic, the leader's home.

Now, the idea was to wreck the crony regime of Milosevic.

We had this model of cronyism in Serbia.

And what happened was that triggered a lashing back where Milosevic sent 30,000 troops in a horizontal escalation way to attack.

cleanse a million, 980,000 Kosovar civilians from Kosovo.

That's 50% of the population.

Now, what do we have here comparing that so far?

We have 50,000 Americans who've run away.

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