Krystal Ball
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41,674 appearances
222 recordings
6 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 5d ago
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slow economic bleed that they were trying to effectuate that they were hoping there would be much greater costs on Iran.
There are greater costs on Iran, but Iran is also in an existential war, whereas the US, we don't even support this war.
We don't want to be in this war at all.
Um the vast majority of the public is like, what what are we doing and why are we still doing it?
writing it now?
I saw Trita Parsi tweeting um this morning, you know, how's how's that US-led defense pact in the region looking at this point?
Because I mean, that was what the whole petrodollar, the whole regional um, you know, concept from the US's perspective was built on the idea that you're going to sell oil and it's gonna be denominated in US dollars and we are going to reap tremendous benefits from that.
In terms of investments in our bond market and in our stocks and in our country, you are going to get our defense umbrella.
That is the deal.
How is that deal looking at this point?
How is that going?
Um, you know, it's it's one more blow to the not only petrodollar, but US dollar as the world reserve currency.
And there are also reports that um the Gulf countries are thinking of getting together and meeting directly with Iran about.
Hey, let's work this out ourselves in terms of um the Strait of Hormoes and what the new reality is gonna look like.
in play, yeah.
It's like,
These cruise
Yeah, I mean I would say the public if you look at the fact that of the political ramifications um that could be in play when you're talking about a Nebraska and a Kansas and an Iowa and a Texas that are now legitimate targets for Democrats in the case of Nebraska with an independent candidate, but are now um, you know, legitimately at risk for Republicans, uh, I think you have to
Say the public has already hit their breaking point, even if uh the politicians in DC are very much insulated from the way that the already high gas prices have deeply hurt people.
With diesel, I mean, this is really gets to the lifeblood of your entire economy because you have obviously this goes into farming.
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