Julian Borger
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489 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2021
last heard 25 Aug
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Also, he has a trip going to China and the Chinese government, a major importer of Iranian oil,
buys about 80% of Iranian oil, is not happy about what is happening.
And Trump had a whole agenda about what he wanted to talk about in Beijing.
But now it looks like, you know, if the situation is unresolved, he's going to be just answering questions about the state of Hormuz and be on the back foot.
So, you know, he is under pressure to get something done to move the status quo.
Clearly, they were expecting a quick win, regime change within weeks.
This is what, in particular, Israel promised was going to happen.
Hasn't worked out like that.
But it hasn't quite worked out as many Trump watchers would have imagined, too.
They imagined that he would fold over high oil prices, inflation, unpopularity.
And so far, he hasn't.
He's stuck with this demand that Iran...
gives up its nuclear program, its uranium enrichment program altogether, so far, you know, has been fairly inflexible over that.
And so we are seeing something a bit different, maybe a Trump that's less worried about political concerns back home, because after all, he's not going to stand for election himself.
And Trump is usually all about himself and someone who is more concerned about the kind of legacy he leaves on the world stage.
There was recently a very disturbing article in The Atlantic magazine which said he's less comparing himself to Washington and Lincoln these days and more to Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon, which is worrying for all of us.
And this idea of what impact you leave on the world stage when you're gone.
Israel is a bit out of the loop at the moment because they had promised that regime change would happen relatively quickly.
It didn't.
And as the war has gone on, Israel has found itself more and more out of the picture.
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