Niall Ferguson and Dexter Filkins: Who Will Win the Israel-Iran War?

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  From the Free Press, this is Honestly and I'm Barry Weiss.

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  As I record, it is the fourth day in the ongoing escalating war between Iran and Israel.

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  Many major questions hang in the air today.

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  Chief among them, will Israel be able to fulfill its stated goal of the war,

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  which is to end Iran's nuclear program?

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  How far will it be willing to go to do so?

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  Will it put troops on the ground?

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  In order to blow up Iran's nuclear crown jewel at Fordow?

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  Or will the U.S. get involved?

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  Will Trump provide the bunker-busting bombs necessary to blow up that key facility?

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  Other questions.

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  Will the regime fall?

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  Will Israel take out Supreme Leader Khamenei?

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  And if so, what will come next?

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  And how does this war fit into the much,

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  much larger geopolitical conflict between America and China?

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  So today, I have two experts to break it all down, Neil Ferguson and Dexter Filkins.

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  Neil Ferguson, of course,

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  is a historian and a free press columnist who just wrote a piece in our pages called Israel's Attack Restores the Credibility of the West.

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  Neil is the author of more than 16 books, including The Pity of War,

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