
Andrew Fox and Shana Meyerson discuss the complexities of US policy towards Iran and the implications for Israel amidst mixed messaging from the Trump Administration.
Has the Trump Administration dropped its war aim to remove the Iranian nuclear threat? Mixed messaging from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, and, of course, President Donald Trump seems to be confusing the narrative. What are our goals in Iran? Regime change or not? Nuclear program destruction or not? What happened to ending Iran’s funding of terrorist proxies? In this live conversation, military expert Andrew Fox and A Paratrooper And A Yogi Walk Into A Bar cohost, Shana Meyerson, discuss the goals of the war, the Israeli problem of settler violence, and how we should best use our words to convey our aims. Andrew Fox is a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society and cohost of The Brink Podcast. He served for 16 years in the British Army, leaving the Parachute Regiment with the rank of Major. He completed 3 tours in Afghanistan including one attached to US Army Special Forces, as well as further tours of Bosnia, Northern Ireland and the Middle East. He was a senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, teaching in the War Studies and Behavioural Science departments. In the last year he has visited Gaza twice as well as Hezbollah tunnels in…
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