Coffee with Contrarians with special guests

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So we are past our magic thousand person mark. So that's our cue to get started. So let me start with you, Alon Goldberg. For those of you who don't know, he was in charge of situations just like this at the Pentagon. What happens if Israel starts striking Iran? So he knows this subject just about better than anyone.

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So first of all, Ilan, Netanyahu said they had to go now. This is preemptive. Iran's about to put together a nuclear weapon. Do we have any evidence at this point that that was true? And what are the implications if he wasn't being completely on the level with us and the rest of the world?

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No, we really don't have any evidence of that. I mean, I think this has been something that's been in the cycle for like the last 20 years of expecting this potential strike. And in my own experiences have always been that there are moments where, especially if Netanyahu wants to push, suddenly there is urgent intelligence. The U.S.

Coffee with Contrarians with special guests

A recording from Ben Wikler and Jennifer Rubin's live video

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Jun 20, 2025

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Annie D Stratton

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I'm grateful for the video- best news I've seen this week! I'm especially glad to hear your shout out to folks to start getting involved in GOTV, volunteering, campaigning, even running for the upcoming elections.

I'd really like to have been able to watch live. Is it possible for Th Contrarian to adapt your app to play on computers, or enable livestream in the Contrarian. Some of us don't have smart phones or can't use them for things like this.

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