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Speaker 2: to say the least, a little vignette into how we
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Speaker 2: weekend working on giving you the voices on geo politics.
Speaker 2: One of those we went to was James Stavetas in
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy five when it was the last thing on
Speaker 2: the planet an American lad would do join the Navy,
Speaker 2: and his set of books over his career was extraordinary.
Speaker 2: We learned this morning, of course, of him commanding one
Speaker 2: of these guided missile cruisers, the USS Barry, which is
Speaker 2: an Arlely Burke class cruiser, and we got just terrific
Speaker 2: perspective from James Travetas on what's going on on board
Speaker 2: those ships in the Eastern Mediterranean. Here's Admiral Stravitas on
Speaker 2: the larger picture of Israel and Iran.
Speaker 3: The Israelis have said they will respond to this three
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty drone ballistic missile cruise missile attack. Fortunately
Speaker 3: the air defenses were discussing destroyed. It knocked down three
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty of them essentially, But Israel will respond. However,
Speaker 3: I don't think it'll be a massive jets whistling above
Speaker 3: Tehran kind of response. I think it'll include offensive cyber
Speaker 3: maritime operations. Operations. Don't look for a big escalation at
Speaker 3: this point.
Speaker 2: And of course one of the things we talked about
Speaker 2: was their ability to close the Straight of Hormuz, and
Speaker 2: I was stunned at his comments on very ancient, very
Speaker 2: quiet Iranian submarines that could be out there assisting in
Speaker 2: a close Admiral Stravitas mints no words with minds. They
Speaker 2: could shut down that important Arabian golf Persian golf bottleneck,
Speaker 2: if you will, the Strait of Hormus. So that was
Speaker 2: just wonderful. Ian bremer is everywhere, and unlike most people everywhere,
Speaker 2: the quality of the work is exceptional. There's no other
Speaker 2: way to put it. He puts out a detailed research
Speaker 2: note with Eurasia Group and of course with all their
Speaker 2: wonderful people. But what he really does is he writes prolifically,
Speaker 2: particularly in the summer where he's off with his family.
Speaker 2: And Ian Bremer has done any number of books that
Speaker 2: speak to the moment, and one of those was his
Speaker 2: iconic effort at G zero World. We began our conversation
Speaker 2: with Ian Bremmer today considering his thoughts on the G
Speaker 2: seven in these two nations in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Speaker 1: Iranian strikes in a sense are the higher priority for
Speaker 1: the G seven, but that they don't want to see.
Speaker 1: They really resist the potential for Israel to engage in
Speaker 1: strikes against Iran that could precipitate a direct war. And
Speaker 1: right now, I would argue, you've got Benny Gans largely
Speaker 1: sympathetic to that message, someone that would like to be
Speaker 1: the next Prime Minister of Israel and he has a
Speaker 1: vote on that war cabinet. And you've got Benjamin Nott
Speaker 1: Yahoo who is fighting for his political life and is
Speaker 1: not sympathetic to that argument. Gants is saying, this is
Speaker 1: the time that you should strengthen alliances with countries like
Speaker 1: the US in Germany, and an Yahoo is saying this
Speaker 1: is the time we've got to hit the Iranians back
Speaker 1: directly hard, even if that means a more isolated and
Speaker 1: a more unilateral Israel. That is the nature of the
Speaker 1: debate inside Israel right now.
Speaker 2: Ian Rubber there and it was incredibly busy morning with
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Speaker 2: I want to mention here and like I get so
Speaker 2: many emails like what's the one book I should read?
Speaker 2: My book of the year last year was a Loom
Speaker 2: of Time. We were honored that Robert T. Kaplan, who
Speaker 2: was just on with us recently, would come back this
Speaker 2: morning and give us just wonderful, wonderful perspective as he
Speaker 2: looks across the loom of time from Morocco over to Persia,
Speaker 2: over to Iran. And I think it was just a
Speaker 2: really trench at conversation. Look for that out. I should
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