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

But if you ask the folks at the Defense Department, or if you ask the people in Israel, they're thinking this is another month beyond this award.

So, again, just things I don't think are quite, you know, in sync.

I mean, if this could occur, it would be spectacular.

But I would say this is way, way, way too ambitious.

There's a hundred things that would be wonderful outcomes, better than what's likely, that would be short of that.

I remember in Iraq...

After Bush failed to find nuclear weapons, which was the initial, I would say, somewhat cucked up rationale for our going into Iraq, Condi Rice, who was the secretary, gave a speech about, well, how wonderful it'll be when Iraq is a democracy and market economy, quote, radiating stability through the Middle East.

So we're pretty good at doing I Have a Dream, you know, in that version.

I think that's a way, way, way stretch.

I would be very happy with a regime there that simply was not about building nuclear weapons, was not about building missiles that threaten the U.S.

and our friends and allies in the region, and not about supporting proxies.

And if it's a pretty cruel regime, unfortunately, that's unfortunate for the Iranian people.

The Persian people, when I'm a student of history, I love Persia.

You know, I remember Cyrus and I remember the Peloponnesian War.

I remember, you know, this is a fantastic culture in history.

They've been hijacked by a terrible, terrible group of people.

And if those people can be somehow ousted, you know, wonderful for Iranian people and wonderful for the world, if I were betting it, again, I'd say go back to the first point.

It's questions, uncertainty, finding signals in the noise, extremely difficult.

But if I were betting it, it'll end up that the guys with the guns will in some version be the next iteration.

And if they're tamer and less determined to threaten our interests,

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