Graham Allison

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Graham Allison on the Global Realignment: Iran, China, Israel, Greenland · 9 Mar 2026 podcast

If your listeners don't remember Moby Dick, they should go look at it again.

Ahab had this fixation, obsession with the white whale and tried to find a way to kill the white whale whenever he could.

For the last two decades, that's been Beebe's number one, number two, number three agenda.

He's tried to sell that war to Obama, to Trump 1, to Biden, and how he succeeded in mesmerizing Trump, whom I thought had his number.

I was surprised.

So I'm pro-Israel, but anti-Bibi in this respect.

And I think that I understand he's brilliant politically, but I don't think this—

The arguments that were made that Trump has actually repeated, that Iran was about to attack us, I see no evidence for that.

That Iran was about to get a nuclear weapon, I see no evidence for that.

That Iran was building an ICBM that was going to attack the U.S., I see no evidence for that.

There's many, many bad things about the Iranian regime, but not most of the claims that were made.

So I look at this, and I hope it turns out well.

But I remember that in wars, very frequently, it's easy to get in, and it's quite difficult to get out.

That's a great question.

And I wish that the answer was this was all part of a grand strategy.

That would make me feel hugely better.

But I try to do Trumpology.

And I was actually having dinner last night with Bill O'Reilly, a former student, who I think is one of the better

topologists were trying to interpret, and we were going back and forth through this.

It's easy enough to see why the window, tactically, the window in which this attack occurred was chosen, because here you got 40, you got the Supreme Leader and 40 of the other leaders of Iran out in public.

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