Bomb Throwing Like a Liberator

The Ricochet Podcast

Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

For decades, war game experts have produced dire predictions for American-Iranian war scenarios. While it's still early days, the circumstances are much more favorable than strategists had supposed. Noah Rothman returns to break down what's going right in Iran, what remains worrisome and uncertain, what the public ought to anticipate, and what the administration ought to tell them. (Noah also gives us a quick preview of his upcoming book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence in America.)

The fellas wrap the interview with theme-appropriate drapings: Brits are removing their greatest citizens from the nation's banknotes, reminding us of waning resolve from Western allies, and a thwarted terrorist plot in New York has the media and politicians twisting into knots to conceal the truth.

(This episode was recorded on Thursday, March 12th to accommodate the hosts' travel schedules.)

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0:00.0	When I mentioned political violence, I just saw him on the Zoom look like a dog who hears his name, or a particular, or the owner's whistle, yes.
0:07.9	So first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
0:19.9	It's the Rickashay podcast with Stephen Howard and Charles C.W. Cook.
0:23.6	I'm James Lilley.
0:24.5	Today we're going to talk to Noah Rothman about, well, what else?
0:28.5	The war, but there's more.
0:30.0	So let's have ourselves a podcast.
0:31.7	The Navy is gone.
0:33.3	24 ships in three days.
0:35.9	That's a lot of ships.
0:38.2	Their anti-aircraft weapons are gone.
0:42.5	All of their airplanes are gone.
0:45.0	The communications are gone.
0:48.5	Missiles are gone.
0:49.9	Launchers are gone.
0:51.6	Other than that, they're doing quite well.
0:54.0	Welcome, everybody. This is the
0:55.3	R ricochet podcast number 780. I'm James Lillings, and I'm joined, of course, by Stephen Hayward
1:00.3	in California or somewhere else in the world. In Charles C.W. Cook, not on the Scepter
1:03.8	aisle, but in Florida. Gentlemen, welcome. Hello. Good morning. They're a other understated, almost English there.
1:12.9	Hello, hello from Charlie.
1:14.8	And so since you are indeed from the, from Blighty,
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