Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 10, 2026
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ade it all up? Would they know? No, they wouldn't know. I could literally just make that up. Here's the actual bank account, and it just made it up on my printer. You just show it to the kids. "Hey kids, this is the actual bank account right here. Look, they took all your money. You guys are starving and they started this war and they did it for nothing because Israel is your friend and they just…

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which is what adults know. By the time you're my age you know everything is a lie all the time. Everything is a lie all the time. Kids don't know that. They still think there's a true version and a fake version. So yeah, you could totally deprogram them if you had full control of the schools.

Apparently it looks like Israel, I don't know if the US helped, but they did a drone attack and they took out a top Iranian general, Brigadier General Razi Musavi, and they took him out in Damascus in Syria. So the Iranians of course were not too happy about that. So there have been some Iranian proxies attacking some American assets over there and some Americans got killed. And then the US is going to attack back or already has. So we're in a proxy war with Iran. And I guess the question is how big it gets. So my guess would be it's going to stay small because I think Iran just needs to show that they're pushing back. The United States needs to show that they're not going to get away with it. Israel is going to take easy shots at the generals who leave Iran because they don't want to kill their generals who are in Iran. That would be too much of a provocation. So I feel like again everybody's getting what they want so it's not going to change. You know, Iran wants to poke the United States and that's sort of the whole thing. They know the United States isn't going to pack up and leave. T

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hey just want to poke them and the US needs to respond so they're going to respond. So everybody's getting what they want. Iran's going to poke, we're going to respond. Israel is going to kill any generals that leave Iran. I don't know that that leads to war because it's sort of like people getting what they wanted in the short run. That doesn't seem to me that that would escalate. But I could be…

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