Trump’s AI-Powered World Wars

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The episode discusses the ongoing U.S.-Israel war on Iran and its implications.

In the last few days, President Donald Trump has said that the U.S-Israel war on Iran will end soon, after oil prices jumped and the growing regional conflict continued to shake markets . After a wave of heavy bombardments throughout Iran, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth promised another round, “The most fighters, the most bombers, the most strikes.”  “Hegseth has, yes, said that it's going to be basically death and destruction from the air, and they're delivering that,” Hooman Majd , an Iranian American writer and journalist, tells The Intercept Briefing.  “Killing civilians is a hallmark of American air war. This particular campaign Operation Epic Fury is set apart by the relentlessness of the attacks,” adds Nick Turse , senior reporter for The Intercept. “The two militaries — U.S. and Israel — combined were striking a conservative estimate of 1,000 targets per day in the first days of the conflict. Around 4,000 targets were hit in the first 100 hours of the campaign. For another point of comparison, Israeli attacks in the recent Gaza war were also relentless, but this far outpaces the Israeli campaign by more than double the number of strikes.” On Wednesday, Trump told…

People in this episode

Host: Akela Lacy

Guests: Hooman Majd, Nick Turse

Topics covered

• U.S.-Israel conflict
• Iran
• war
• politics
• military strategy

Keywords

• Trump
• Iran
• U.S.-Israel war
• military strikes
• Hooman Majd
• Nick Turse

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Organizations: The Intercept, Axios

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