Ian Bremmer
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19 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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But in a world where drones are becoming so much more cheap, do you really want to have choke points that can be hit that easily?
I mean, today's problem in the Strait of Hormuz could be tomorrow's problem in Malacca.
Given that, do you really want these global choke points on oil and gas, or do you want to invest in 21st century technologies?
Like, if this were to get the Americans ass in gear...
on renewables, that would be an amazing thing.
Instead, the Americans will fall further behind for now, the way the U.S.
is now starting to catch up on critical minerals and rare earths.
But leaving that aside, in terms of the short-term impact for this administration, one thing we haven't even talked about yet, and we have to at least mention it, is the Iranian people are completely screwed here.
Remember, this was like the whole argument at the beginning is back in January, the believed to be tens of thousands Iranians that were brutally murdered by their own regime.
And Trump said, I'm coming to rescue you.
He doesn't talk about that anymore.
This regime is in place.
This regime is so confident being in place that over the last week, they even had military leaders for the first time since the war started all showed up publicly for a memorial service.
They wouldn't have done that two weeks ago or a month ago.
So Trump has completely failed.
in the humanitarian ostensible purpose of the war.
And on the nuclear file, after having blown up, obliterated, as the administration said, their nuclear capabilities, which have been set back, that's certainly true, but now getting the Iranians to a place of, we will actually allow
for the end of enrichment beyond civilian purposes with inspections, we're very far from that.
So I would argue that not only are all of the macro concerns made much worse by near term by Trump's war, but even the narrowest
vision of we're gonna do a much better deal than that horrible deal that Obama did with JCPOA, at this point, that looks unlikely.
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