Steve Yates
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1,090 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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And they're good with what has happened so far.
Of course, they'd like to be informed and in on the earlier conversations, but they're good for now.
Prime Minister Takeuchi had a good summit with the president.
And as long as they see some kind of de-escalation coming in the, say, two to four week period with some defined landing place, maybe a maintenance plan going forward,
They want to see resources back in the Indo-Pacific too, to make clear that there is an adventurism there where we pay a price for what we've tried to handle, whether it's in Europe and Ukraine or this broader Middle East challenge, the Venezuela and Western Hemisphere stuff.
We've got a lot of cans open at the moment.
Yeah, well, I mean, there's a couple of ways if you want to paste markers for optimistic outcomes.
I'm not naturally an optimistic person.
I'm just playing one on your program today.
But if you're going to try to place some of these markers out there, you'd say, okay, we were living with a scope of a threat that really was underappreciated in some ways, minimized by a lot of people.
But the very fact that the remnants of this regime launched
two long range missiles out in the direction of Diego Garcia proved that they had a long range missile capability that was better than assessed by a lot of different services around the world and could strike targets much farther.
And as you know, you don't have that kind of long range missile development capability unless there's something you want to put on that tip.
That is not your average boom boom device.
And so that, I think, legitimized in a way a lot of the conversation that I think erroneously and I would say slanderously was saying that the prime minister of Israel was dragging President Trump by the nose into into this effort.
There is a global security problem that was percolating around.
under the regime in Iran that was bigger and closer to doing terrible things.
So the authors of October 7th in Israel, not that long ago, the backers of assassination campaigns in the United States and that bled out a lot of our troops in Iraq and other places, they were closer
to disastrous capabilities than we assess.
So at least at that measure, that has been degraded much more profoundly than the strikes last summer could have done.
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