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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You have the new Supreme leader who is the son of the previous Supreme leader.
Are they going to try to kill him?
And if so, are they gonna take out the entire regime?
And are they going to then try to install
you know, the son of the last monarch, or are they going to try to install somebody else?
So, like, if you think about the sort of neocons who have been pushing for war on Iran for decades and decades, really, like, that was not about just killing the supreme leader or just, you know, like, taking out their long-range missile.
that was a regime change push and what i'm saying is that would take a much much much bigger effort it would be much more protracted as you know again as phil's been saying um it would take ground troops it would take uh you know a sort of building effort on the inside and i think the trump
doesn't understand this probably.
And he, he doesn't really have an A on one level.
He wants to be able to say, you know, mission accomplished.
We did it on the other level.
He doesn't want to just stick around and, you know, he's afraid of these forever wars just because he knows what they would do to his legacy.
So he doesn't have, there's, there's no good answer for him basically.
So I think he will, you know,
of course, as he always does, declare some sort of victory at some point, and he will leave an absolute mess behind.
And frankly, you know, I think if you ask Netanyahu, that's an outcome that he would take, all things considered.
Beats me.
You know, the Iranians are saying that they're not talking to him and he keeps saying that he's talking to Iranians and they've given him a great big expensive gift.
And, you know, I don't I don't.
This always happens when we try to kind of get inside Donald Trump's head.
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