What podcasts say about Ryan McBeth
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What Ryan McBeth has said on podcasts
23 statements · 6 positive · 13 negative · 4 neutral
The main Ukraine conflict this winter will center on energy infrastructure.
“the big battle this winter is going to be one of energy.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 32:57
Russia will attack Ukrainian energy infrastructure, and Ukraine will likely retaliate against Russian energy infrastructure.
“Russia is going to strike Ukraine's energy infrastructure. And Ukraine is quite likely going to strike back at Russian energy infrastructure.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 33:02
Russia will launch large numbers of Garan IV drones against Ukraine.
“what we're going to see is floods of Garan IV drones smashing into Ukraine”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 35:25
Europe could impose a Ukrainian no-fly zone using 24 aircraft.
“The Hail Mary would be if Europe implemented a no-fly zone over Ukraine, which they could do with 24 planes.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 35:40
Defenders should attack missile launchers and aircraft bases rather than only intercepting weapons.
“when somebody's firing ballistic missiles at you, you need to destroy those TELs, those transport erector launchers, or the airfields where aircraft are taking off of and launching glide bombs.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 38:52
Russia concentrated many air-defense systems around Moscow.
“Russia has taken a lot of those surface-to-air missile launchers and surrounded Moscow”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 39:53
Russia’s air-defense redeployment to Moscow leaves other areas vulnerable.
“the reason Russia is having so much trouble is that it's a very large country, and they've moved a lot of their air defenses to cover Moscow.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 41:27
Attacks on Moscow will not cause Russia to collapse.
“I don't think that's going to break Russia.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 43:57
Available evidence does not show Yandex strikes destroyed propaganda bot farms.
“the evidence that I've seen does not show that any actual bot farms as in propaganda bot farms are actually taken out and destroyed.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 47:13
Iran has faced sustained severe military pressure for about 38 days.
“what Iran is in is in a really big pickle because for about 38 days, we were essentially curb stomping Iran.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 48:43
A blockade is an act of war under the stated legal characterization.
“when President Trump ordered a blockade, they actually used the word blockade, which is an act of war.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 49:31
An Iranian 70-year-old joined the Basij for financial reasons.
“his 70 year old grandfather joined the besiege, which is a militia for money.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 53:03
Iran is losing approximately $450–500 million daily in oil revenue.
“Iran, from what I understand, is losing between $450 to $500 million a day in oil revenue.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 54:09
Cutting Saddam Hussein’s oil revenue did not collapse his regime.
“that never collapsed the regime.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 54:30
The United States could theoretically maintain the Iran blockade indefinitely.
“we could keep this up. Pretty much indefinitely”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 54:52
Iran’s most likely off-ramp is a deal allowing weapons inspectors and nuclear restrictions.
“I think that the most likely off-ramp would be Iran coming to some sort of deal where they say, you know what? We're going to let weapons inspectors in.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 55:38
A proposed Iran deal would send uranium to Pakistan for dilution to roughly 3%.
“We're going to send all of our uranium. To Pakistan, we're going to have it blended down to around 3%, a little over 3%”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 55:51
The preferred nuclear deal would preserve Iran’s government but prevent nuclear weapons.
“Iran keeps their hardline government, but they don't get nuclear weapons.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 56:25
The intervention in Libya signaled that nuclear disarmament may invite later intervention.
“we also showed every leader that if you abandon your nuclear program, we will eventually come after you.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 57:42
Some Iranian officials may be preparing escape plans amid regime instability.
“I could certainly see some people in Iran kind of planning an escape.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 59:19
Iran has damaged its credibility and is viewed as untrustworthy.
“one of the things that Iran showed the world, or at least showed the Middle East, is that they can't be trusted.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 1:01:08
Removing the Strait of Hormuz from Iran’s control would substantially reduce its leverage.
“if we continue blockading Iran. that's kind of scary because then Iran, you know, what was Iran's major point of leverage? We can constrain the Strait of Hormuz anytime we want. You take the Strait of Hormuz out of the equation, it doesn't give Iran a lot of leverage.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 1:02:26
The conflict has destroyed Iran’s air force and navy and constrained its missile capabilities.
“we erased their Air Force. We erased their Navy. We severely constrained their ability to launch missiles and their missile infrastructure.”
Open the episode · What the Hell Is Happening in Kansas? Where the Iran War Goes Next (with Ryan McBeth)Listen at 1:04:25
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