Who is on this subjectordered by the date of their first quote here
2 of 3 lanes rest on fewer than 5 quotes and are marked thin. Offsets are days from the middle first-quote date, 11 Oct 2019 — a date, and nothing else. It is not a claim about who reached a view first.
- Sir Richard Dearlove 12 11 Oct 2019 – 13 Mar 2026 +0 d
- JD Vance 1 thin 25 Aug 2026 – 25 Aug 2026 +2510 d
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Sir Richard Dearlove
Dearlove reveals he advised Blair not to dissolve Iraqi military structures but was not followed.
“my advice to Blair, which he didn't follow, because I'm not a policy guy, but I said, look, what we should have because bits of the Iraqi army were not particularly contaminated by Saddam Hussein.”
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Sir Richard Dearlove
Dearlove states China builds more naval tonnage annually than the entire Royal Navy in fifteen to eighteen months.
“Chinese navy is building more tonnage in a year to eighteen months each year than composes the whole of the Royal Navy. That's the speed of its expansion.”
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Sir Richard Dearlove
Dearlove states China's navy builds more tonnage annually than the entire Royal Navy in twelve to eighteen months.
“Chinese navy is building more tonnage in a year to eighteen months each year than composes the whole of the Royal Navy.”
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Sir Richard Dearlove
Dearlove describes Ukraine as putty in American hands, militarily dependent on support no other nation can replicate.
“Militarily at the moment they are heavily dependent on American support and it can't really be replicated. What they're being given can't be replicated by any other nation.”
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Sir Richard Dearlove
Dearlove says policing a Ukraine ceasefire line would require 200,000 to 300,000 troops.
“And the idea that you're gonna have, you know, 30,000 it would take 200 to 300,000 troops to please the ceasefire line. Look.”
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Sir Richard Dearlove
Dearlove argues Israel has already defeated Iran militarily and Iran cannot destabilize the Middle East.
“Israel, the new Sparta, have effectively already defeated Iran militarily, and Iran is in a very weak position.”
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Sir Richard Dearlove
Dearlove notes Iran has 93 million people and 150,000 Revolutionary Guards aside from regular army.
“this is a huge country, 93,000,000 people, very entrenched elite military force, the revolutionary guards, which are a 150,000, aside from the regular army.”
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Sir Richard Dearlove
Dearlove reveals he urged Blair to form a military council in Iraq instead of disbanding the army.
“the huge mistake that Brammer made in Iraq on which we were not consulted, I was chief at the time, was to disband the Iraqi military.”
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Sir Richard Dearlove
Dearlove suggests Iranian army could take over from IRGC as more nationalistic than theocratic force.
“It's possible you could get an army takeover in Iran. By that, I mean, I'm drawing a distinction between the army and the IRGC. The army has a more nationalistic rather than theocratic.”
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Sir Richard Dearlove
Dearlove reveals an American general was meeting with 400 Iraqi officers about running Iraq when disbandment order arrived.
“the huge mistake that Bremer made in Iraq on which we were not consulted, I was chief at the time, was to disband the Iraqi military.”
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Sir Richard Dearlove
Dearlove recounts recent conversation with senior American general confirming his Iraq military council advice.
“I mean, I was urging the Blair government to form a military council. And actually talking to an American general recently who was part of that group, who was in a very senior position,”
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Sir Richard Dearlove
Dearlove reveals 400 Iraqi officers lost pensions when disbanding order came mid-meeting about governance.
“He said to me last week, couple of weeks ago, that he was actually in a hangar in Baghdad talking to 400 senior Iraqi officers about running the country when the order came through to disband the army, and they all lost their pensions at the same time.”
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JD Vance
Vance argues Canada would be invaded without U.S. military protection due to its underinvestment.
“Canada is a country that has underinvested in its military that quite literally would get invaded by a foreign country were it not for the umbrella of protection provided by The United States Of America.”
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Scott Bessent
Bessent frames Iran sanctions campaign as parallel to World War II D-Day offensive.
““In the Second World War, D-Day marked the historic beginning of a campaign with our allies to target and drive the enemy from its positions, including those in third countries.”
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