Trump’s Post-Midterm Iran Plan Is a Loser | Episode 14

DESCRIPTION

The Trump administration is desperately searching for a way to end the Iran war on favorable terms. President Trump has indicated that he would take steps after the mid-term elections to bring the war to a victorious conclusion. That is not going to happen, however. The United States has no way of winning its war against Iran.

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro
0:27 Trump's Post-Midterm Iran Plan
1:59 What's Happened Since February 28th
2:37 The Four U.S. and Israeli War Goals
4:47 What the War Has Cost So Far
6:09 Iran's Demands
9:53 Iran's Slow Walk on the Nuclear Issue
12:56 The Strategies the U.S. Has Tried
19:09 Trump's Four Options
20:58 Option 1: A Three-Day Bombing Campaign
25:25 Option 2: The Blockade and Bessent Strategy
27:51 Option 3: Diplomacy
29:56 Desperation in Washington and Israel
31:27 Option 4: A Nuke on Pickaxe Mountain
34:09 How a Nuclear Strike Would Work
36:55 Would It End the War?
38:20 The Wider Costs of Going Nuclear
40:43 Where That Leaves Us

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MUSIC

"The Ice Giants" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Music modified (edited/remixed) from the original.