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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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 15 in all, peaking in Apr 2026 with 3.

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Now, that immunity will not extend to people below Donald Trump. voice-verified

You know, and I'm not surprised to find out that people at the Pentagon have been talking to their lawyers. voice-verified

But, you know, voice-verified

International law doesn't have a lot of enforcement mechanisms, unfortunately, for something like this. voice-verified

This being countries simply deciding to kind of whack people overseas, pretty unusual. voice-verified

You know, rogue states do it to dissidents. voice-verified

You know, Putin murders people who oppose him wherever he can find them. voice-verified

But this kind of decision to simply saying, you know, we can point at anybody in the world and declare them terrorists and kill them. voice-verified

That that is unprecedented. voice-verified

We didn't even do that after 9-11. voice-verified

We made a case of the world. voice-verified

The president at the time, George Bush, made a case to the Congress, wanted to get an authorization. voice-verified

We went to the Security Council. voice-verified

Trump isn't doing any of that. voice-verified

He's basically and, you know, again, give him credit for a kind of lizard brain talent here of saying, you know, if I just do this. voice-verified

and just assert that it's right and do it enough times, people will just get used to it. voice-verified

I mean, there was a big outcry after the first few strikes. voice-verified

And now we're up to what, 17, 18, a death toll that's pushing, you know, 80 people. voice-verified

And, you know, here we are talking about it. voice-verified

But that's not, you know, if the UK hadn't done this, we probably wouldn't even be talking about that story today. voice-verified

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