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He argues that the United States entered the war expecting to kill Iranian leadership, trigger surrender, and avoid serious retaliation against Gulf states.
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He argues that the United States entered the war expecting to kill Iranian leadership, trigger surrender, and avoid serious retaliation against Gulf states.
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He argues that Iranian strategy reverses the American model by using military moves to improve Iran's economic, political, and narrative position.
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"We hit Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait. Nobody expected that. We were shot, and the other one, you know, they fought back. They..."
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"Okay, so what he's saying here is, we went in expecting them, expecting to hit them, kill their leadership, and then they would surrender...."
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"...is being strategic. Politically, the Iranians are trying to split the Gulf states. Right? They know that Saudi Arabia and UAE are committed to..."
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"And the narrative is they're trying to shape global opinion and trying to make everyone believe that they are on the right side of..."
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"...Hormuz, coupled with their strategy of attacking their, their neighbors, their Gulf state neighbors, that that two -pronged strategy can be very effective in,..."
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"...We've also got this kind of geopolitical turmoil now with the Gulf states where they've all been attacked. They're seeing their business model to..."
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"and the gulf states and the gulf states and the gulf states are globalists right the globalists meaning you know city of london davos..."
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"...cannot escalate anymore without having severe consequences rain down upon the Gulf states, right? And so if Trump... It looks like they're... Does it..."
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"...that they're going, they have the ability to knock out the Gulf states desalination. The desalination. Plants. And then that's game over for them...."
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"...-third of the world's energy supply. This would completely destroy the Gulf states. They are no longer viable. But the problem is that Americans..."
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"...sorry, in West Asia, it will be it will be the Gulf states in Israel versus Iran."
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"...um, it, it's, it's Iran is going to wipe out the Gulf States if the United States continues this war, which it looks like..."
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The apparent U.S.-Iran war is recast as an imperial succession crisis.
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