S8 Ep1131: Mary Kissel analyzes the failure of the Iran ceasefire, noting that Iran calculated the US lacks the will for ground intervention. The conflict centers on Iran's suspect nuclear program, with potential new targets at Pickaxe Mountain. Public engagement re
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 July 2026
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| 0:25.6 | This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome Mary Kistel, my colleague. She's at the Hudson Institute, former senior advisor to the Secretary of State. |
| 0:59.4 | All wars end with diplomacy at a table, signing documents. |
| 1:05.3 | The two wars underway, the Strait of Hormuz and Iran, U.S., and the Dineepra River and Dunbass and Russia and Ukraine, |
| 1:13.6 | are not close to diplomacy right now, and one has taken a full step backwards. The memo of understanding is no longer applicable. The shooting |
| 1:19.6 | begins. Iran is shooting at tankers and at its neighborhood. Reporting Jordan has been hit and |
| 1:27.1 | UAE has been hit. At the same time, |
| 1:29.2 | Saudi Arabia is shooting at the Houthis in North Yemen, and I believe the Houthis are shooting |
| 1:34.3 | back. So the guns are out. The U.S. is distributing from the DOD video of strikes in Iran, we can |
| 1:43.8 | presume. It's taken with a night goggles image, so it's all |
| 1:48.2 | shadowy. But that I'm looking at on the front page of the London papers. I haven't seen it in |
| 1:54.4 | New York yet. All this violence, however, means that the diplomats must wait another day and what |
| 2:00.4 | is to be done. |
| 2:02.1 | Mary, a very good evening to you. I regret reporting the restart of the war. |
| 2:07.7 | The president is said to be addressing the nation and his colleagues in Washington in these next hours. |
| 2:14.6 | I believe Thursday night was the initial announcement. |
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