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How October 7th Became the Middle East's Pearl Harbor

Simon Whistler · March 3, 2026 · 15 min video · Middle East

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What this episode covers

Sinwar's attack was meant to ignite a multi-front war on Israel. Instead it unraveled the Axis of Resistance piece by piece — and may yet bring down the Islamic Republic itself.

Chapters

  1. Sinwar's Big Project and the AttackIn the free preview
  2. The Domino Chain Destroys the AxisInsiders
  3. The Final Blows and ConclusionInsiders

From the transcript

On the big list of historical military miscalculations, there are some that are destined to always come near the top.

Vladimir Putin's decisions, who only plan for a short war against Ukraine, for example, or Imperial Japan's decision to bomb Pearl Harbor, a decision that dragged the United States into the Second World War, and spoiler alert, it didn't end well for Japan.

Well, from our historical vantage point of 2026, it now seems like the attacks of October 7th, 2023 are fated to join that list.

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