01:00 Steve Hsu: Iran vs Israel: Implications for Missile Defense, https://stevehsu.substack.com/p/iran-vs-israel-implications-for-missile
04:00 Michael Doran on October 7 one year later, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ig9ftKAk4
13:30 Five reasons why Israel’s 7-front war is so hard to win, https://brusselssignal.eu/2024/10/five-reasons-why-israels-7-front-war-is-so-hard-to-win/
14:20 Dooovid joins, https://x.com/RebDoooovid
28:00 Dooovid has been anti-Zionist for 20 years
29:20 What is the shortest route for power? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iv4Zz9cMQ0
32:45 Tim Walz lost his debate with JD Vance
decoding settler colonialism, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fhbnb209Bo
37:45 Kip worries my soul is trapped in matter
48:00 WP: How Joe Biden lost his grip on Israel’s war for ‘total victory’ in Gaza, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/10/03/biden-israel-gaza-war-middle-east-crisis/
1:27:30 Claire Khaw joins
1:33:00 No True Scotsman fallacy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
1:55:00 Mike Doran’s X analysis, https://x.com/Doranimated
2:14:30 Expert on Iran Reveals Scenarios of an Israel-Iran War – Saeed Ghasseminejad, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdv7MJIDtPI
2:19:00 Settler Colonialism and Drivers of Anti-Israel Sentiment with Eric Kaufmann and Adam Kirsch, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fhbnb209Bo
2:26:00 Your Hero System Is Your Morality And You Get It From Your Tribe, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=150319
2:54:00 Optimally Irrational: The Good Reasons We Behave The Way We Do, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=157563
3:08:00 Colonialism as niche construction
3:14:00 Land acknowledgements came from humanities professors
3:22:00 Mike Doran makes the case for America staying in the Middle East
3:24:15 7 ways the US is beating Europe, https://www.politico.eu/article/united-states-europe-competition-covid-economy-gdp-food-cities-jobs-data/
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