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Hello, prestige heads. It's Derek. Here, as always, with my friend and comrade, Danny Bessner.

We're very pleased to welcome back to the program, one of our favorite and most frequent guests.

It's Spencer Ackerman. He is the author of Rain of Terror. You know him as the proprietor of the Forever Wars newsletter.

He's columnist for Zateo all around good guy and good podcast guest, Spencer.

Thank you for coming back on the program.

Thanks you guys for having me.

I think American prestige has been doing just top-notch work during the Iran War.

So I'm happy to contribute to that and honor to have been asked.

Well, thank you. We appreciate that.

It is a great moment for just American prestige in general, the principle of American prestige in this war.

So we're very excited to talk about it. But I do want to start maybe with just some, your general thoughts as we sit here approaching two weeks into the Trump-Natanjahou war on Iran.

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