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The speaker models Pentagon decision-making as option design: give the president do-nothing, recommended, and catastrophic choices so that a strategic president chooses the middle option.
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The speaker models Pentagon decision-making as option design: give the president do-nothing, recommended, and catastrophic choices so that a strategic president chooses the middle option.
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"...nuclear weapons against you, okay? So basically, Russia would limit the military options of America in a war, which would be of tremendous benefit..."
A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: Saudi Arabia's rivalry with Iran moved from religion and oil into proxy war, exposed the kingdom's fragile infrastructure, and made a Trump-led America the weapon Saudi...
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