Ian Bremmer
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4,435 appearances
19 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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So he has no ability to really blame anybody else here.
And it's the fact that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who twice ran and won on a platform of I will not start new wars, has like now wasted six months of his presidency in the run up to the midterm elections, having started and failed in a new war.
It's kind of astonishing.
It kind of beggars belief.
Yeah, I mean, we're not talking about a trillion yet, but I mean, if you look at the cost to the Iranian infrastructure, if you look, which has to be rebuilt, if you look at the cost to the Gulf infrastructure, I mean, just that one facility, LNG facility in Qatar, it's $20 billion and a minimum of five years to fix.
You look at the inflation costs all over the world for fertilizer, food, helium, petrochem, plastics.
I mean, everything with oil in it.
You're already talking about hundreds of billions of dollars of costs.
And so, I mean, no, it's not Afghanistan.
It's not Iraq.
But frankly, it's clearly the biggest policy mistake that any U.S.
president has made since the Iraq war.
And that's astonishing, again, for a president who understands just how damaging these wars can be, have been, for a president who, when he was young, used his family connections to avoid the draft,
because he didn't want any part in Vietnam because he understood that that was a bad war.
He understood that that was a war he didn't wanna sacrifice his own life for.
I mean, he gets the fact that wealthy people have been able to do that, poor people haven't.
And so he won in part by saying, I'm not gonna fight any wars on the back of unconnected, unwealthy people that can't get an exemption the way that I could.
And that was a compelling thing to vote for.
And now, not so much.
And the fact that he's, you know, the White House is posting, look at the Iran war compared to Iraq and Vietnam.
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