Ian Bremmer
speaker
4,435 appearances
19 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
Ian Bremmer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 18 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 4.
Appearances
Hi, Helen.
Good to be back with you.
So I guess there are two different components that we need to think about.
The first is why it is that the war is still going on, given the clear costs to everyone involved in the United States, around the world and to the Iranians.
And the second is, how might we think about the potential for a resolution?
So first, why is it happening?
Because we had a memorandum of understanding that was signed between the US and the Iranians, and it was only a matter of weeks before that fell apart.
The issue here is that President Trump and the Iranian military leadership
really fundamentally disagree about how much leverage they each have over the outcome.
This is very different from what we saw between Trump and Xi Jinping.
when he hit out really hard on the tariffs and created a functional boycott, and the Chinese hit back with their own tariffs, and then the critical minerals licensing regime.
And Trump realized, I do not want to get into a tit-for-tat continued fight with the Chinese.
This is going to hurt me too much.
I need to back away and I need to ensure stability.
The Iranians have hit Trump back pretty hard, hit the Americans back.
They've hit them back in blocking the Strait, and they've hit them back in attacking targets across the Gulf, both infrastructure targets and American bases.
But the Iranians believe they can continue to do that until they have control over the Strait, until they're given that control by the United States, ceded by the United States, so that they are able to get a lot of money and determine who does and doesn't go through.
President Trump's perspective is, yeah, they may have been able to disrupt the straight, but I can continue to blow these guys up and ultimately they're gonna have to capitulate.
So I don't accept that they can continue to wait me out.
I need to show them by continuing to hit them harder that they're going to be forced to back away from
Showing 1–20 of 4,435 · page 1 of 222
Next →