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“President Trump thought that Iran is like Venezuela — you can threaten, you can find an Iranian Delcy Rodriguez — but Iran is not Venezuela. They retaliate. They won't absorb, they won't capitulate in any way or form. I think the administration still does not understand Iran.”
A rare, direct rebuke of a sitting president's strategic judgment from an Israeli military intelligence insider, arguing that a fundamental misread of a geopolitical adversary is driving the U.S. toward a self-defeating escalation.
Danny Centrenowich
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