{"id":177319,"date":"2026-03-22T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177319"},"modified":"2026-03-22T13:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T21:54:53","slug":"decoding-the-iran-war-3-22-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177319","title":{"rendered":"Decoding The Iran War (3-22-26)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O9RFELr4ypA?si=_hgzQSZFjBWjxlHI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <a title=\"Click to play at 05:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#300\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"300\">05:00<\/a> Video: White Identity Is Galvanizing the Right | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177297\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177297<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 10:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#600\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"600\">10:00<\/a> Rabbi Aron Tendler, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/profiles\/profiles\/aron_tendler.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/profiles\/profiles\/aron_tendler.htm<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 21:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#1260\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"1260\">21:00<\/a> Video: Inside Iran: Why the Regime May Be Near Collapse | Emily Schrader Interview, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177316\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177316<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 23:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#1380\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"1380\">23:00<\/a> When I Kissed The Teacher <br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 29:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#1740\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"1740\">29:00<\/a> The Pundit and the Paycheck, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177314\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177314<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 31:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#1860\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"1860\">31:00<\/a> Platform Genres: Different Rulebooks for the Same Iran War Livestream, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177307\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177307<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 37:45\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2265\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2265\">37:45<\/a> The Gravity of Belonging, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177305\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177305<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 42:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#2520\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"2520\">42:00<\/a> Libertarian Author Brian Doherty Is Dead At Age 57, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=176584\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=176584<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 50:30\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3030\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3030\">50:30<\/a> Mark Halperin brazenly eating and drinking on his stream, disavow<br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 52:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3120\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3120\">52:00<\/a> Genre Errors in the Iran War: You Can\u2019t Call \u201cFault\u201d on a Football Match Just Because No One Is Using a Net, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177302\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177302<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 55:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3300\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3300\">55:00<\/a> Genre Errors: Why the Wrong Rulebook Ruins Everything, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177300\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177300<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:01:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#3660\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"3660\">1:01:00<\/a> Nations At War Often Trade With Each Other, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177295\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177295<\/a><br \/>International Law Won\u2019t Stop a Missile, <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177293\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177293<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 1:14:30\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#4470\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"4470\">1:14:30<\/a> Airpower Won the First Phase. 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What are the painful truths the major countries in this Iran war are hiding now? <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177099\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177099<\/a><br \/><a title=\"Click to play at 2:33:00\" class=\"ln-clickable-timestamp\" href=\"#9180\" data-action=\"episode-seek-audio\" data-timestamp=\"9180\">2:33:00<\/a> The Madison, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Madison_(TV_series)\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Madison_(TV_series)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>05:00 Video: White Identity Is Galvanizing the Right | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17729710:00 Rabbi Aron Tendler, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/profiles\/profiles\/aron_tendler.htm21:00 Video: Inside Iran: Why the Regime May Be Near Collapse | Emily Schrader Interview, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=17731623:00 When I Kissed The Teacher 29:00 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=177319\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - 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