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.
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He thought they were going to sue for peace because their economy was so much weaker than America's.
So what did he get wrong about Iran?
Well, one, he and the Israelis actually assassinated the leadership.
So the reason that they had never tried to close the strait before, which they clearly had the capacity to do-
the military capacity, the drones, the rest, is because they feared that if they did,
that would be the end of their regime.
People would come after their leaders.
The people making the orders would get killed.
Well, then you went ahead and killed their leaders.
So they broke glass, they pull lever, right?
That is what actually happened.
So Trump thinking that they were gonna sue for peace like Venezuela, when in reality, they said, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You just broke the whole thing.
We don't trust you.
That's what killed the equivalent of the people he handed power to in Venezuela.
Exactly, exactly.
Even if they hadn't,
I would have been very surprised if this strategy would have worked out.
This was incredible overconfidence, born of the Venezuela success, and also born of Trump's previous history with Iran, where they talk big against the United States during the 12-day war,
In his first term, when he killed Qasem Soleimani, ordered the assassination, then they didn't do anything.
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