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The Ben Shapiro Show

Ep. 1948 - Will Israel STRIKE Iran?

The Ben Shapiro Show

The Daily Wire

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4.4152.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Israel considers a military response to Iran’s declaration of war; Trump heads to court in New York for allegedly paying off Stormy Daniels; and we examine the threat of China’s nuclear buildup.   Click here to join the member exclusive portion of my show: https://utm.io/ueSEj   Ep.1948   - - -    DailyWire+:
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0:00.0

So Joe Biden, the president of the United States, he keeps saying one word over and over and over.

0:05.9

That word is don't. He said it to the Taliban with regard to attacks on American troops. And then, of course,

0:11.8

they did. He said it to the Russians with regard to going into Ukraine. And then, of course,

0:16.3

they did. And he said it to the Iranians with regard to directly attacking Israel. He said

0:20.7

don't. And then, of course, they did. All of which it to the Iranians with regard to directly attacking Israel. He said don't.

0:21.3

And then, of course, they did. All of which means that Joe Biden is not a credible

0:25.5

player on the world stage. Now, there is something in foreign policy called deterrence.

0:30.7

It's the single most important concept of the post-war era. Deterance is the idea,

0:34.9

according to the Defense Department, that you can prevent action by the existence

0:38.7

of a credible threat of unacceptable counteraction and or a belief that the cost of action outweighs

0:43.7

the perceived benefit. In other words, you do not attack me because I am threatening you. If you

0:49.0

attack me, I will clock you into next week. You know who is an expert at deterrence, oddly enough?

0:55.1

President Donald Trump. He was excellent at deterrence because every threat that he uttered was perfectly credible.

1:01.2

He kept everybody off balance. There's sort of a madman theory of foreign policy. You never knew

1:05.2

when he meant it, and you never knew when he didn't. It didn't matter whether you understood it.

1:08.7

It only mattered whether he understood it. He could push you off the ball simply by saying, if you cross that line, you don't know what's going to happen, but it's going to be a really bad, big league bat. And other nations took that seriously. The Taliban took that seriously. Russia took that seriously. Iran took that seriously. But when Joe Biden

1:29.3

over and over and over again keeps saying don't, and then other parties do, and the United

1:35.0

States does not respond, and not only does the United States not respond, it's slow walks aid

1:39.2

to America's allies, so even America's allies cannot respond. The United States intervenes to tell

1:43.8

America's allies not to do too much States intervenes to tell America's allies

1:44.5

not to do too much. Then it turns out that the party that is deterred is not, in fact,

1:50.6

the opponents, the enemies of the United States. The party that is deterred is the United States

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