Tom Nichols
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2,378 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 19 May
Tom Nichols’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Humiliated.
And after five weeks of this war, he's humiliated.
I mean, this, we have had victory after victory at the operational level.
And by the operational level, I mean, you know, go in, destroy that target, come out safely.
U.S.
military is great at that.
But, you know, as my my friend Dan Dresner at Tufts pointed out, Professor Tufts, he said operational victories, but a strategic defeat for the United States.
We've accomplished we didn't accomplish regime change.
We haven't gotten the nuclear materials that we've proven, basically, that the Iranians now kind of own the Strait of Hormuz.
um the mullahs have dug in um and trump doesn't know how to deal with that he doesn't know how to deal with it when things just won't go his way and he's tried to put lipstick on this pig by saying uh we got regime change um they're doing what we want they're begging for a deal but nobody believes that and so i think what you're seeing is a guy who has clearly i mean look
We don't talk about it enough, but this is a guy clearly with all kinds of cognitive problems, clearly with all sorts of emotional issues going on.
And he just doesn't know what else to say.
So now he's issued this crazy threat.
And as you said, Don, he paints himself into these corners that he didn't need to be in.
There was nothing.
There's no forcing function that says that 8 p.m.
today, which is 3.30 in the morning Tehran time.
Nothing's happening that required this kind of ultimatum or deadline.
This isn't the Cuban Missile Crisis.
He's created this situation.
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