George Hahn

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Welcome to The Week from Prof G Media, where we break down what mattered and what it all means.

I'm George Hahn, and it's Friday, June 12th.

Today, we get into what the Iran war is revealing about American power.

Then, nearly a trillion dollars in new stock is about to hit the market.

And finally, why optimizing your life might be the surest way to miss it.

Let's get into it.

This week, Scott sat down with two of the sharpest foreign policy minds alive, Ann Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and staff writer at The Atlantic, and Fiona Hill, former National Security Council official and one of the world's leading experts on Russia and geopolitics.

And after more than 100 days of war with Iran, neither sounded particularly optimistic about where things are headed.

On the war in Ukraine, the story that deserved far more attention than it got this week, Anne had just returned from Kiev and told us her report.

Something has fundamentally shifted.

Ukraine has gone from aid recipient to security provider.

Gulf states and European companies are now seeking partnerships with Ukrainian drone firms.

Scott called it the third Silicon Valley, and they did it after the U.S.

cut off supplies, hoping it would force a surrender.

On the Russian side, Fiona laid out how Putin may well be running out of road.

And the conversation ended on a reflection on what these autocracies, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, really have in common.