Robert Pape
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2,835 appearances
10 recordings
4 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Robert Pape’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What's keeping Taiwan afloat is its actual Taiwanese military power.
which is not trivial here.
They have months they could hold out against China on its own.
But whether America is the cavalry that would come to the rescue after, say, four or five months of a blockade against Taiwan, that's an open question at this point, and Xi sees it.
Yeah.
Yeah, this is a while before a likely storm.
We just don't know whether that storm is going to be, you know, sort of a cloudburst or it's going to be a hailstorm.
And the issue here we've talked about many, many times is President Trump is going to have an incredibly difficult time swallowing that big L
on him, which will, as bad as you think his political prospects are now, he's still got a large part of MAGA behind him.
And they will be even more behind him as they get into the midterms.
However, if he accepts the loss and really just says, yep, you're right, I've got to stand aside while Iran gets a nuclear weapon, think about that, because that's what the real future is here.
then a lot of even MAGA is going to lose confidence in the great leader because that great leader isn't so great anymore.
So this is where the real problem of the trap is.
As bad as it might seem to go down a road of escalation,
Going down the other road for Trump is worse.
Now, the rest of us may be perfectly happy to make the choice.
We don't want casualties.
We'd rather go down and allow Iran to emerge as the fourth center of world power.
That's the choice.
And we may make a different choice, but the guy in the Oval Office is President Trump, and he's in there for two and a half more years.
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