Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
No enrichment, zero enrichment.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
But that's a red line.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Everyone knows that there's... And even now, it's probably less likely than ever that they're going to give up enrichment.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Sure, they bombed Porto, but they didn't destroy every last centrifuge in that place.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And...
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
The Iranians are already announcing that they're already begun construction on another facility under a taller mountain, buried even deeper.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And, you know, they figured out how to enrich uranium hexafluoride gas, you know, what, 20 years ago now.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And they will always be able to.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And this is the slippery slope that we're on with these wars is, in fact, I saw a friend here on TV the other day, as he almost pretty much just implied there, saying, well, now Trump has to go in.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
You know, we were told it's just Israel doing it.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Don't worry.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
But then, no, Trump has to hit Fordow or else now they'll break out toward a nuclear weapon.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
So in for a penny, in for a pound, in for a ton.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And now once we bomb Fordow again and Natanz again and the new facility again, then it'll be decided that, no, as Benjamin Netanyahu said the other day,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
You know what would really solve this problem?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
If we just kill the Ayatollah, then everything will be fine.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Then we'll have a regime change, and then what?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Then we'll have a civil war with bin Ladenites again in the catbird seat, just like George Bush put them in Iraq and Barack Obama put them in Libya and in Syria.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And we'll have Azeris and Baluki suicide bombers and Shiite revolutionaries and whoever all vying for power in the new absolute chaos stand.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
If you listen to the administration and Mr. Dubois, they're essentially just implying that like, oh, yeah, mission accomplished.