Robert Pape
speaker
552 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3d ago
Robert Pape’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's looking for a way for him to become Ronald Reagan, pull a rabbit out of the hat.
This is gonna somehow, you know, like with the air traffic control strike, you know, with Ronald Reagan, suddenly everybody will be, oh my God, it was the most brilliant thing.
But the reason this happens, and I studied preventive wars for a living for 30 years, so I'm not just generally studying international relations,
preventive wars happen because the attackers see certain loss
And then they take highly risky actions to avoid a certain loss.
So think of it as they see 100 percent loss and now they take a risk.
It's only 80 percent.
And that's what we're seeing here in all the commentary.
Everybody's saying this is almost surely going to fail.
Well, for President Trump, that's right.
But to not do it is an even worse outcome for him and his presidency.
If the world suffers, that's secondary for Trump.
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