Yanis Varoufakis
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first heard Jan 2026
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it's important to juxtapose this against what Panama makes.
From the Panama Canal, it makes 5.
Or, you know, Egypt from the Suez Canal, it makes 10.
So the Iranians are going to be making between 70 and 90 billion.
This, given the sanctions, represents around 20-25% of national income, of GDP.
They've come out pretty nicely out of this.
They have had the consent of the Gulf states
that they were bombarding, in my view, in self-defense, but nevertheless, they were bombarding Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and those, the GCCC countries, the Gulf State Council countries, have consented to these laws being charged, it seems from what I read.
So it is a complete catastrophe for Donald Trump, but there is one silver lining for him, that, you know, he's found an excuse
an off-ramp for getting out of a war that he knows he should never have allowed himself to get into.
There is no doubt whatsoever that the great winner out of this awful, murderous war is China.
China, from the moment that Tomahawk missile hit that school in southern Iran onwards, China has been winning.
They don't need to do anything.
They just need to sit back, relax, to the extent that it is possible to relax these days with the massacres that we watch.
and just take the credit for being the adults in the room internationally, for being reliable partners to anyone that they have done business with, of not flip-flopping, of not threatening with Armageddon, a civilization like Iran, or any country for that matter.
Now, regarding the particular diplomatic engagement of China, well, this is not the first time, is it, Sagar?
Let's not forget that it was China...
that brokered a hugely important deal between Iran and, on the one hand, Saudi Arabia.
That was back in 2020, 2021.
And then with the United Arab Emirates.
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