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🗓️ 22 June 2025
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The United States has struck the Iranian nuclear program, marking a watershed moment for the region.
It will take days to determine the scale of the damage and many years to understand the implications of President Trump’s decision. But a few things are already clear. A new relationship was established between the US and its ally Israel that defined a new security architecture for the American-led alliance worldwide. Israel did the heavy lifting, suffered the blowback, and only because it was willing to fight successfully itself was then able to call on America’s unique capabilities. Taiwan, take note. Russia’s European neighbors, ditto. Be ready and able to fight, and America will help. But America will no longer fight for you as in the past.
This episode is dedicated to the memory of Willy Field by his family. Willy Field was born Willy Hirschfeld in Bonn, Germany and is perhaps the only survivor of a Nazi death camp who managed to survive, escape and return to German soil in a British tank. His story of disaster, recovery and frontline heroism against Nazi Germany is a testament to over a million brave Jewish soldiers who fought the Nazis in the Allied armies.
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0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to yet another quick and dirty special episode of Ask |
0:09.9 | Kaviv Anything. It seems like in the last few weeks it's been nothing but special episodes because events |
0:16.0 | have been very dramatic and dramatic events have followed quickly one after another. But I don't think there's |
0:21.2 | been an event as dramatic as what happened last night in my lifetime, certainly not in the Middle |
0:25.5 | East. What happened last night was that the United States joined the Israeli air campaign against |
0:31.5 | the Iranian nuclear program. The B-2 bombers with its famous massive ordinance penetrators, |
0:36.9 | those enormous 30,000-pound bunker busters, |
0:41.6 | bomb Fordo Natanz Isfahan took out many of the things that are still left in those facilities. |
0:48.3 | We don't quite know how badly things are in those places, if they're completely destroyed, |
0:53.4 | or if there's quite a bit left, |
0:55.6 | Fordo was built for nothing else but to resist aerial bombardment, and so we still don't know the |
1:01.1 | scale of the damage. But Trump was very clear last night. He said, this is just the beginning |
1:07.2 | if Iran doesn't come to the table and strike a deal in which it has no enrichment, |
1:11.7 | in which it does not have the path to a nuke. It was an enormous change from anything we have seen |
1:19.9 | in the past from the United States, and it probably has dozens of ramifications. We're going to be |
1:27.1 | trying to understand what just happened |
1:28.8 | for months and, of course, for many, many years going forward. It was a pivot. It was a pivot in the |
1:34.5 | history of the Middle East. It was a pivot in the strategic calculations and the strategic |
1:38.3 | architecture of just about everybody in the region. I want as a sort of first response, if you want to know my really just initial |
1:47.0 | real-time views, there was a wonderful live stream with the free press with me and Mark |
1:55.4 | Dubowitz and Mike Duran and Amit Segal and Eli Lake and Matthew Contenetti and Barry Weiss, you know, as the MC overseeing it all. |
2:07.9 | And we all kind of laid out our views, our thoughts, our concerns, our fears. |
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