Richard Goldberg
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 11 Jul
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By the time all that was validated, people had already been mowed down in the streets by the tens of thousands.
And the president had obviously made his statements, drawn a red line and said, help is on the way.
He's now in a position where he did draw a red line.
Barack Obama drew a red line over Syria on chemical weapons use back in 2011.
One of the biggest talking points about the evisceration of U.S.
power and deterrence in the world came from that moment in time when he took that stroll around the backyard of the White House with his chief of staff and decided not to enforce his red line.
A lot of things followed from that in a very bad way for the last decade or more.
The president knows that.
He's not Barack Obama.
He prides himself on not
making decisions like Obama or Biden.
He wants to make sure that Putin and Xi knows he will enforce his red lines, but he also sees millions of people came out in the streets.
The regime is obviously fearing for its life right now, its existence, if they would commit this sort of maximum violence like you've never seen before since the revolution in 1979.
and all those economic factors remain, the president has some options.
And by the way, even if you couldn't actually collapse the regime by military force from outside the country, you could continue to severely weaken all of the external and internal threats that the regime poses, like its missile program, its drone program, the IRGC, Navy, and then, of course, the internal security forces, command and control.
All of that gives the people more chance to succeed the next time around.
I think they're pretty well aware now that that's not the case.
I don't know if somebody thought that if millions of people stay in the streets and the president just threatens military action, that somehow the mullahs would not open fire in the streets.
You saw the president make a statement to the press
He was asked on Air Force One flying back, do you think they believe you?
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