I keep promising myself I’ll talk about something else. The war that still has US forces anchored in the Middle East, Israeli forces seizing key terrain in South Lebanon and the Ukrainians striking deeper into Russia is important, but the odd spectacle of the US making unconvincing threats while the Iranians rebuild their offensive capabilities should be the least important thing.Next video: Why the US said the Russians will strike Poland

On two occasions I referred to ballistic missiles as nuclear missiles. This isn’t entirely an error: Iran can build conventional explosive (and clustre munition) warheads onto their ballistic missiles today, and nuclear warheads onto their ballistic missiles when they have them. Right now, though, the Iranians don’t have ‘nuclear missiles’ because they don’t have nuclear warheads to put on their ballistic missiles.I definitely pronounced Fazli as ‘Fazil’ in this video. This is definitely not because of the character in Highlander.

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