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I'm John Betts with my colleague Gregory Copley.

Regime change.

It was satire with Saddam Hussein many decades ago. It is now mentioned gravely in Washington, regime change in Iran, regime change in PRC. Why? What does that mean is the open question? Because the example I think of immediately

is the French Revolution regime change. Yes, what it led to was wars of no particular success

and invented Napoleon and invented warfare across the map of Europe

and led to what should have to say a fragmenting of the empires. However, it didn't come to

anything positive. So regime change looks unwise. Gregory, regime change in Iran, does that mean a better day

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