Christian Smith

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662 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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Talking Geopolitics · US-Israel Alliance in Crisis: George Friedman Explains · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

Well, on this edition of the podcast we discuss the US relationship with Israel, what both sides want out of the war with Iran from here, and the future of Israel's place in the Middle East. voice-verified

And to do so, I am joined by Geopolitical Futures Chairman and Founder, George Friedman. voice-verified

Hello, George. voice-verified

Hi. voice-verified

George, I wanna really I wanna go back to first principles to start off with here. voice-verified

Why does the US care so much about Israel? voice-verified

Uh, listeners will be thinking one of the things, George, there that you didn't mention is is any suggestion that there might be a more than practical, more than realist relationship between the US and Israel, a a perhaps an ethical one, if you want to put it that way, uh a friendship one. voice-verified

There's obviously close relationships between lots of people in both countries. voice-verified

Does that play a role here, do you think? voice-verified

Thank you. voice-verified

And I just want to look into this a little bit more, so with respect to that relationship now, uh i is there something that makes the relationship now between Israel and the US different to say some of America's other allies, to say Britain, uh or some some of the other allies that or even Australia say, some of the allies that have deep historic ties. voice-verified

Certainly it voice-verified

Yeah, absolutely. voice-verified

And I think you've teed us up nicely for for later on we're going to talk about the sort of future relationship between the two countries. voice-verified

Before we get to that though, let's look at this this explosion as as we as you call it between um Trump blowing his top, uh uh between uh Netanyahu and Trump. voice-verified

Obviously most people out there will know about this conversation. voice-verified

We mentioned it at the top. voice-verified

How how much did their relationship how much does it actually matter, particularly voice-verified

now when it comes to the war with Iran. voice-verified

They've known each other a long time, they've always seemed to have got on well. voice-verified

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