Israel vs Iran: Who Would Win?

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Nick Freitas

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Iran has attacked Israel directly, launching over 300 drones and missiles into Israel, targeting a combination of military and civilian targets. But with minimal effect. The question is, what will Israel do next? Will the US get involved in a significant way, or should we? And could tiny Israel actually win a war against Iran?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to making the argument. Well, today we're going to be discussing a pretty significant strike that Iran launched against Israel.
0:08.4	We're going to discuss why this strike took place, why it matters the United States and the Middle East, what it could potentially mean for a broader war between Israel and Iran.
0:17.4	And one of the questions that we're really going to dig into here is should the U.S. get involved? And if it did it, could Israel actually stand up to and defeat Iran in a
0:27.8	conflict? All of that and more coming up on this episode of Making the Argument, brought to you
0:31.1	by Good Ranchers. Thank you all for joining us on this episode. If you haven't already,
0:34.8	go down to the link in the description and join our community chat. We have a great group of folks over there discussing all of the topics that we
0:41.0	talk about here on this podcast, and we'd love for you to join. We'd love to get to know you there.
0:45.5	So if you haven't already, go click that link, join our community chat, and we'll see you there.
0:49.2	All right, going around the table, I am your host, Nick Freitas. And for the purposes of this episode, I'll also mention that I used to dabble and counter-insurgency non-conventional warfare back when I served in
0:58.0	the military active duty for 11 years to include a couple of tours over in Iraq. So I've got a little
1:02.6	bit of experience with this area with us. Back in the studio, my beautiful bride, Tina Queen of the
1:08.0	Bees. Hello, everyone. And then we have our resident historian, political prognosticator, and mostly benevolent warlord
1:14.3	and training.
1:15.0	Still going through some of the training.
1:16.3	How are you doing, Christian?
1:16.9	I'm doing fine.
1:17.9	And then, of course, we have our producer of producers, Nicholas Hamilton, the good
1:20.9	Hamilton, the one that doesn't like central banking.
1:23.6	Thank you, Nick.
1:24.3	Okay, let's go ahead and jump right into this. As we look at what has been going on in the Middle East, right, there was this idea during the Trump administration that we were actually starting to see a lot more peace talks that were taking place. We had the Abrahamic Accords. And generally speaking, there was this idea that tensions were starting to cool within the Middle
1:44.9	East. And there was kind of, there was a lot of different factors that played into this, right?
1:50.3	Obviously, the Trump administration will take credit for a lot of it, and there was a lot of good
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