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Mark Levin's 'Opportunity Lost' and the Neocon Endgame
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Mark Levin's reaction to the funeral becomes the vehicle for Meiselas's sharpest critique of the hawkish right. Levin reportedly aired footage of the procession and declared 'the enemy gathered en masse, all in one place — opportunity lost.' Meiselas engages this head-on: what exactly does Levin want? A nuclear strike on millions of civilians? And if that happened, what comes next — millions of American soldiers dying in an occupation of a 90-million-person country with a resilient regime and Shia populations from Iraq to Pakistan rallying in response? He frames Levin, along with Hegseth, Rubio, and others, as 'Netanyahu agents' whose endgame, however stated, leads to catastrophic American military and economic consequences. The segment functions as a reductio ad absurdum of the 'maximum pressure' school of thought. [1] — Ben Meiselas "Trump propagandist Mark Levin watched the Ayatollah's funeral — tens of millions of mourners, hundreds of global dignitaries — and called i…" 16:55
Trump propagandist Mark Levin watched the Ayatollah's funeral — tens of millions of mourners, hundreds of global dignitaries — and called it 'opportunity lost.' Meiselas asks the obvious follow-up: what exactly is the endgame? Millions of Americans dying in a ground war for Netanyahu?
Israeli Iran analyst Danny Citronik concluded that both Israel and the United States systematically underestimated the Islamic Republic's social and political resilience. The strategy was built on an intelligence gap that produced optimistic assumptions about rapid regime collapse — and those assumptions were wrong.
Israeli intelligence analyst Danny Citronik concluded that both Israel and the U.S. underestimated the Islamic Republic's social and political resilience throughout the conflict.
