Steve Yates
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191 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4d ago
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We just have a trust gulf on what's really happening there.
It is over time, and it just gets down to dueling analyses about whether there's short term political pressure in the United States that's sufficient to make the Trump administration pull back, or uh is the Trump administration committed to a long term pressure campaign in lieu of overwhelming military options in order to basically press this regime into crumbling.
They cannot sustain their economy with the revenue sources they have.
have.
They don't have access to the oil of Carga Island.
They definitely are going to lose the ability to pay their troops in a certain amount of time.
So really time is on the president's side.
It really comes down to the dueling narratives in Washington and around the world about where the pressure is coming from.
Well, there's always going to be a challenge when you have long term deployments.
There was an anticipation that this might be drawing to an earlier close down to more of a maintenance operation.
And this has turned out to be a more protracted embargo of the Iranian ports.
And so this this particular vessel has had a record long deployment that will strain families at home.
But when you have a vessel with 5,000 personnel on it, you just the law
Of averages means some people are gonna have a harder time than others.
I think it was wildly over and over interpreted in terms of everyone facing this existential struggle.
Whereas I think that the military is doing everything they can to care for the families and especially those that are deployed.
It's fairly rare, of course, that when we were dealing with negotiations in Afghanistan and there were par elements of Taliban getting involved back in and the sad course of events over the long time we spent in Iraq, uh there there were different kinds of radical elements that would get into the mix.
So we had a general policy of no negotiating with terrorists.
At the same time, sometimes there are those tied to these groups who end up in the political negotiations.
In this case, it's a little bit unusual that we're going to have those Hamas leaders come to these negotiations, but ultimately it's they who have to lay down their arms.
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