Ian Bremmer
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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It took years for the Obama administration to negotiate the original Iranian nuclear deal, the JCPOA.
Trump would want the nuclear agreement to be substantially tougher than that, and he has considerably less capacity to force the Iranians to the table to accept it.
Bloomberg News Now · US-Iran Talks on Sunday, Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz, More · 20 Jun 2026
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This war has completely failed in terms of being able to accomplish any of the war goals that President Trump put to the American people back when he launched the strikes on Iran.
It took years for the Obama administration to negotiate the original Iranian nuclear deal, the JCPOA.
Trump would want the nuclear agreement to be substantially tougher than that, and he has considerably less capacity to force the Iranians to the table to accept it.
I would say he's first and foremost a symptom, not a cause, of trends that have been coming in the United States for a long time.
American people that believe that for various reasons that the political system does not represent them adequately, that something about it is broken and so needs someone who's going to shake it up, who isn't going to be an establishment figure.
I think that you see that reflected in a whole bunch of structural policies like a lack of U.S.
support for free trade and instead moving towards industrial policy and nearshoring and inshoring.
You see it in a move away from more open borders, both in terms of response against illegal migrants, but also restrictions on legal migration.
You see it in an unwillingness of the United States to get as involved in foreign wars and a demand for much greater burden sharing and other countries paying for their own defense.
Those are structural things that Obama had to deal with and Biden had to deal with and Trump is benefiting from.
But then...
You have a separate group of things that have to do with Trump the individual, where he puts himself above the country.
I mean, I was in Davos in January and wasted three days of my life, I will never get back, on Greenland, right?
That was not a thing.
for US national interest or foreign policy.
That was purely vaingloriousness on the part of the US president to be able to put his name and plant his flag on a territory that has some of the strongest alliances around it that the United States could possibly rely on, but which don't matter to Trump because he's not getting what he personally wants.
And there are many examples of the latter, which are not as important for where geopolitics are heading over 5, 10, 20 years.
But they're really important for some of the conflicts that the U.S.
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