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#302 Joe Lonsdale - If China Takes Taiwan, AI Sets Back 10 Years

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#302 Joe Lonsdale - If China Takes Taiwan, AI Sets Back 10 Years
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CIA Station Chief Tortured for Months by Iran in 1980s

Lonsdale disclosed that Iran captured and tortured a CIA station chief in Lebanon during the 1980s under Reagan, keeping him alive for months while extracting intelligence. He suggests this incident profoundly influenced Trump's current stance toward Iran, framing it as personal motivation for aggressive action.

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Lonsdale Claims Iranian Spy Helped Push U.S. Into Iraq War

Joe Lonsdale revealed that British intelligence mentors told him Iran may have deliberately fed faulty intelligence to push America into the Iraq War. He claims Ahmad Chalabi, now known to be an Iranian spy, provided evidence that redirected U.S. focus from Iran to Iraq, contradicting the narrative that Israel drove the Iraq invasion.

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