Steven Bartlett
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That's exactly what he thought.
So what I want to do now is go to the map.
Okay.
All right?
Go ahead.
And show you what he got wrong.
Okay.
All right.
So this is a map of the Middle East.
And the first thing to notice about this map is the topography.
What does that mean?
How many mountains you have.
So what's really interesting is that the topography between Iraq and Iran are completely different.
And this is important because in 2003, the Americans invaded Iraq and they won the war in about two weeks.
And the reason why they won the war is the Americans practiced something called shock and awe.
And the idea of shrapnel and all is that it is a military strategy that believes that if you cut off the head of the snake, the snake will die.
The decapitation strike.
And so what they did was they went into Baghdad, seized Baghdad, and the regime collapsed and the war was over.
And they were able to do this because of the topography.
If you look at a map of Iraq, it's all flat.