But what we have failed to do is accomplish any of those shifting, contradictory objectives, whether it's regime change or securing the enriched uranium or even stopping Iran's proxies like Hezbollah and the Houthis, which still have capacity. The point here is that This war was begun with very false assumptions that regime change could be accomplished as quickly as seizing Maduro in Venezuela. And if anything, the regime has been hardened in its intentions and its resistance to eliminating its nuclear arsenal and hardened in its determination to hold the world hostage, in effect, economically. (06:57–07:09)
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Asserts that the war was based on false assumptions about the ease of regime change.
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