Has the Trump Administration dropped its war aim to remove the Iranian nuclear threat? Mixed messaging from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance, and, of course, President Donald Trump seems to be confusing the narrative. What are our goals in Iran? Regime change or not? Nuclear program destruction or not? What happened to ending Iran’s funding of terrorist proxies?

In this live conversation, military expert Andrew Fox and A Paratrooper And A Yogi Walk Into A Bar cohost, Shana Meyerson, discuss the goals of the war, the Israeli problem of settler violence, and how we should best use our words to convey our aims.

Andrew Fox is a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society and cohost of The Brink Podcast. He served for 16 years in the British Army, leaving the Parachute Regiment with the rank of Major. He completed 3 ...