Thomas Wright

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The Iran war > an unnecessary war

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I mean I think he should try to end it in in the near term and I think um I think he he shouldn't let it go on for uh 4 weeks or 8 weeks or 6 months. I mean firstly my sort of assumption here is that this was an unnecessary war.

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The potential collapse of a major country > geopolitical conflict

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It could be sort of a a Syria civil war on steroids. You know, a country of 933 million people with nuclear materials with all types of weapons. Um that has traditionally been a unified country. Um but if you try to deliberately to break it and you have geopolitical rivalries, the region getting pulled into it, um you know, that's something and that could be a much bigger headache.

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The regime > weakest point

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than trying to manage a regime that was already at its weakest point since 1979. I mean I think this is a key point. It was not a regime that was stronger than it ever had been in the past and was sort of deeply sort of threatening.

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Military action taken last year > dramatic effect

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It was threatening but it was actually weaker than it had been at the past and military action was taken last year. And even if it wasn't a full obliteration, it still had a dramatic effect on its nuclear program.