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Susan's avatar

“I strongly suspect that one of the key takeaways from this conflict is that we’ll discover Iran is a paper tiger, incapable of inflicting a grievous military blow on Iran…” ??

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David Policansky's avatar

Michael meant to say " . . . on Israel." I was about to make a similar comment.

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L B Rose's avatar

Most of these regimes follow the playbook of autocracies, touting their supposed power, using their assets to grow their militaries while subjecting their citizens to poverty and removing any rights to free speech, and isolating their countries from the world as much as possible. It's such a winning playbook that the US is now copying it....

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David Policansky's avatar

Do you think the world, the US, the Middle East would have been better off if Trump hadn't torn up the agreement in 2018? It seems likely to me that Iran would have been better off.

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