Trump’s Political Instincts Finally Failed Him in Iran (w/ Tom Nichols) | The Bulwark Podcast

Описание: The Trump administration is preparing to deploy a Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East along with more warships. But that development was not Hegseth’s highest priority at his Pentagon briefing. His first order of business was attacking the media—even before mentioning the six fallen service members who were killed in a plane crash supporting the war in Iran. And while the administration may have finally narrowed down its reasons for launching the war alongside Israel, it hasn’t discussed the risks of the operation, or why it doesn’t seem to have an issue with Putin helping Iran in the fight. Plus, JD is skeptical about the war but won’t tell Trump to his face, oil prices are soaring while Russia cashes in, and don’t forget that the Department of Homeland Security is still down shut down while our country is at war.

Tom Nichols joins Tim Miller for the weekend pod.

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Show Notes:
Tom on 'victory disease' in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/202...

French news channel with a split screen of bombs and Trump dancing: https://x.com/WUTangKids/status/20322...

Tim's playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0dA...

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Chapters:

00:00:00 Intro
00:00:56 War headlines: casualties, oil, munitions
00:01:54 Trump’s “surrender” paradox
00:04:33 KC-135 crash and the human cost
00:10:44 Russia, oil markets, and blowback
00:16:09 Ad break: Quince
00:17:33 “Victory disease” and Trump’s mindset
00:22:45 JD Vance on background + internal dissent
00:27:54 Ad break: Fast Growing Trees
00:33:29 Hegseth vs the press + Hormuz
00:45:27 Gulf states, terror threats, and DHS shutdown