Thomas Grove
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89 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 31 Aug
Thomas Grove’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We saw Israel taking aim at Iran's oil depots, which has left clouds and fire in the air, black rain that's being caused in Tehran.
And most recently, we've seen an Iranian attack near a Bahrain oil refinery that has left 32 civilians injured.
And then over the weekend, we saw a very new critical phase of this conflict, which is countries going for each other's desalination plans.
And this is very important because the region depends on desalinated water for its drinking water, for its economies basically to grow and function.
Now, these countries have been stockpiling water for years.
They have critical reserves of this stuff.
But some of the smaller nations like Bahrain, for example, which was struck over the weekend,
They don't have huge reserves.
In fact, some analysts say that even over a number of days, those stocks could be drawn down and you could see a crisis in the country.
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One of the most important things that this does for Russia and Putin right now is that it prolongs peace talks.
It basically extends the amount of time during which Russia can show that it's being a good partner in peace talks and that it wants to move forward towards peace without getting sanctioned.
Trump has threatened sanctions more and more in the past as he's become visibly frustrated with Russia.
For Trump is ultimately showing the United States and the rest of the world that he was able to clinch a very hard to attain peace between Russia and Ukraine.
He's telegraphed that his own expectations for that may be low.
When it comes to Russia, they want to see relations normalized as much as they can be between the US and Russia.
They want international recognition for the gains that they've made on the battlefield and continue to make on the battlefield.
Putin really used all the levers of the state to make the country as effective as possible in fighting the war. On the economic side, they basically just ramped up production of every major weapons system that they possibly could.
First and foremost, we've seen a massive injection of cash from the state put into the defense industry. And that's seen new factories being built. We've seen new production lines, expansion of production lines. And so we've seen this kind of massive ramp up of the defense sector.
They were in desperate need of men, especially towards the end of 2022. So in addition to mobilizing, they also created this kind of huge incentive system where they basically gave people, in some cases, as much as they would earn in an entire year as that signing bonus.
The success economically and in terms of attracting people has made a lot of analysts and policymakers in NATO very worried about, you know, what happens next. What kind of military are they going to have whenever the fighting's over? You know, once the fighting stops in Ukraine, can it pull back? And I think there's a lot of people who feel as though it will have trouble doing that.
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