#111 Mujtaba Rahman: Why Iran War Exposed Europe’s Biggest Weakness

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Mujtaba Rahman discusses Europe's response to the U.S. war with Iran and the implications for European unity and foreign policy.

➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Mujtaba Rahman, Managing Director of Eurasia Group Europe and an insider and one of my go to sources on European politics. It has been a very dramatic year for Europe and it only seems to get more dramatic - and so we go through how has Europe been holding so far and where are we gonna go from here. We talk about the U.S. war with Iran - specifically about the chaotic European reaction to it and how that has shown how much Europe is still lacking any common unified foreign policy or about why are European powers willing to shoot down Iranian drones in the Gulf but not in Western Ukraine. And why Mujtaba believes that Greenland is still a major underpriced risk and why crisis over Greenland might have only paused and restart at any point. About Friedrich Merz in the White House and whether European unity towards Trump has started to fall apart - and much more.

People in this episode

Host: Dominik Presl

Guest: Mujtaba Rahman

Topics covered

• European politics
• Iran war
• foreign policy
• geopolitical risks
• U.S.-Europe relations
• military actions

Keywords

• Iran war
• Europe
• foreign policy
• geopolitics
• military
• Greenland
• U.S. relations
• Friedrich Merz

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Eurasia Group

Places: Europe, Iran, Greenland

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