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The Gist

David Epstein: Thinking Inside the Box

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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0:00.0

It's Tuesday, May 12th, 2026 from Peachfish Productions.

0:07.5

It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska.

0:09.6

Ah, here's a report.

0:11.5

The UAE has been secretly carrying out attacks on Iran.

0:15.7

There was an attack that took place in April around the time President Trump was announcing

0:20.0

a ceasefire and sparked a large fire,

0:23.1

knocking much of the refinery's capacity offline for months.

0:26.6

That's the Iranian capacity they hit.

0:28.3

And, you know, for months, if it hit in April, that means it's been offline ever since.

0:33.3

If it was such a secret strike, wasn't everyone wondering, hey, why is that refinery offline?

0:37.7

And then is the even bigger one because UAE was, eh, tweeting, intimating that they weren't taking

0:44.7

getting hit by Iran, just sitting there. There was this one in Reuters, Saudi Arabia, has been

0:51.7

covertly hitting Iran. They escalated to de-escalate and it seemed to work.

0:57.3

So neither of these Gulf states just taking the incoming Shahed drones firing on this

1:04.7

decimated lack of an air force rival.

1:08.6

Now, does it mean that the United States has more support and air cover than we

1:14.2

thought? Well, then we knew until now, but the United States knew that UAE and Iran were and were

1:20.4

able to and willing to strike Iran. And still, they're pursuing the ceasefire, aren't they? So this tells you that the United

1:28.6

States did not say, all right, well, it doesn't matter if we have the condemnation of most of the

1:33.5

UN Security Council. If we have these allies along with Israel, we can continue pounding the

1:38.5

Iranians. It's more like they said, okay, we got the message of how far they're willing to go,

1:43.1

and the answer is somewhat

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