Talabani says some U.S. military objectives may already have been achieved, but the Iranian regime shows no signs of cracking and there is still no meaningful uprising.
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Military objectives
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...so far is you could argue that many of the U.S. military objectives have been achieved. Severely depleted ability to strike. Government, to an..."
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Jiang says Odessa is Russia's real end goal in the Ukraine war and that taking it would satisfy Russia's major military objectives.
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"...so far is you could argue that many of the U.S. military objectives have been achieved. Severely depleted ability to strike. Government, to an..."
"...they have Odessa, then they have basically achieved all their major military objectives. And so what's going to happen is the Europeans will have..."
"...that is that Iran is very clearly able to articulate its military objectives, and it has a very clear strategy of how to obtain..."
"...tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military objectives. Thank you. The next two to three weeks, we're going to..."
"...iran is winning this war strategically meaning that they have certain military objectives going into the war and they have achieved all these military..."
"...And by launching three counteroffensive that led nowhere, that accomplished no military objectives, the Ukrainians lost over about a million men of fighting age...."
"...small nation to defeat Iran okay so what are your real military objectives that you can actually say first of all it's to destroy..."
"...Americans have yet to articulate a clear, coherent strategy, what the military objectives are. The reason why you wouldn't do that... The reason why..."
"This war will enable Russia to complete its major military objective in Ukraine, which is the capture of Odessa. Okay? So imagine a year..."
"...Middle East, called Central Command, okay? So those are two major military objectives of Iran. And we can understand why, because if CENTCOM is..."
"...sacrifice their lives so that Israel and America can advance their military objectives is absurd. No one's that stupid. And then you're like Azerbaijan,..."
"...Israelis and Americans are desperate for ground forces to advance their military objectives. And they're not going to sacrifice themselves and they're not going..."
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