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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Washington keeps running cost-benefit math on a regime that's calculating paradise. Geopolitics expert Brandon Weichert says the entire American strategy rests on a misread of who's across the table, and the misread runs both directions: "The president has really overestimated our capabilities. And he's dangerously underestimated Iranian capabilities."... show more

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“I was a neoconservative, and I just assumed the Iranians were this crazy regime.” Brandon Weichert says the war has convinced him that Iran is far more restrained and calculating than the image long portrayed in the West. “They've proven in this war, they're actually the rational actor.” Full interview on Sanchez Effect.

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