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How that would energize and motivate the people to resist and to unite together. Also, what's really important is the Iranians saw exactly what happened to the Iraqis. This once vibrant, harmonious, brilliant nation was destroyed by American sanctions and American airstrikes. So I don't think that the Americans have a compelling case to make before the Iranian people. So another way of saying this is that even though it seems the Americans have the military advantage, they are still the greatest military in human history. The problem, though, is the Iranians have much more strategic flexibility. And what I mean by that is the Americans, to overfall this regime, need to decapitate the leadership. They need to create internal dissent, a revolution. And they need to rally the religious minorities against the regime in Tehran. And that's really the main strategy moving forward. 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So the first big question", "word_count": 6 }, { "id": "seg-0010-chunk-020", "start": 777.4, "end": 781.36, "text": "is, will nuclear weapons be used in this war at any point?", "word_count": 12 } ], "text_sha256": "846558c6ea6efd3a49ec6c64305dfe7a8ff0253ab1bb017f2b0b307aa02a1d7a", "episode_url": "/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/", "transcript_url": "/episodes/predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu/transcript/#seg-0010", "video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdL-7tAqnU&t=709s", "time_label": "11:49", "tags": [ "monologue", "question" ] }, { "id": "seg-0011", "source_ref": "video:predictive-history-8xdl-7taqnu@transcript:v1#seg-0011", "start": 781.62, "end": 842.82, "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "text": "And my intuition tells me it won't be for many, many reasons. The first major reason is, this is huge. It's a huge taboo against the use of nuclear weapons. If America were to detonate a nuke, America would lose all credibility, all authority among its allies and among the world. And we have to remember, this war is being fought to reestablish American credibility and authority in the world. Putin's invasion of Ukraine did a great deal of damage to Americans' reputation and the war in Ukraine. The war in Ukraine is to reestablish the idea that America is still the global hegemon, that it is still a unipolar world. And so by detonating a nuke, it shows the desperation, anxiety, and quite honestly, incompetence of the American military. So for that reason, I don't think America will use nukes. 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Really badly. If America were to send in ground troops, it would lose this war. And the reason why is the idea of sunk cost fallacy. So if America were to send in the Marines and a ground invasion, we're going to expect the American military would just bulldoze all opposition. It would establish beachheads. It would establish foreign operating bases throughout the interior of Iran. And at this point, everyone's cheering on. Like, look how great the American military is. There's a surge of patriotism in America. The American media, CNN, New York Times, they are just praising the American military to the sky. And it would seem a repeat of Operation Desert Storm in 2003. 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