Walter Russell Mead
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
Walter Russell Mead’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Who has time to like be, you know, putting out pamphlets and organizing?
You're trying to feed your kids.
And so that's not when revolutions normally come.
And it seems to me that also as the general poverty level rises, the Iranian government can't give its loyal thugs 100 percent of their normal benefit.
But even if they're giving them 40 percent of their normal benefit, they're so much better off than everybody who isn't part of the political machine that in a way, just as sanctions magnify, have magnified in the past the power of dictatorial regimes.
Look at Iraq.
Look at Iran.
Look at North Korea.
Right.
That their power may not weaken as a result of economic suffering.
Well, I think what you have to look at there is the cost of the whole war, not just the Iran thing, but the Gaza-Lebanon war to Israel, the political cost.
And it's not unusual.
If you go back to the 1980s, the Israeli war in Lebanon really shook poll support for Israel in the United States.
I mean, you see a huge increase.
change.
And there was a lot of speculation back then that Israel was going to never again regain the kind of favorability that it had previously had.
And there were personal ramifications.
Reagan apparently never forgave Sharon for his vision of what happened.
Accurate or not, it was, you know, the perception was there.
And this war has been much longer.
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