319. Escalating from Suez to Waterloo

About this episode

This episode features a reading of Saifedean's article analyzing the political and economic consequences of the Iran War.

Trump’s Three-Card-Monte Takes on the Chess Grandmasters This is a full reading of Saifedean's article analyzing one month of the Iran War and its likely political and economic consequences. https://x.com/saifedean/status/2038250120890769859 https://saifedean.substack.com/p/escalating-from-suez-to-waterloo

People in this episode

Host: Saifedean Ammous

Topics covered

• Iran War
• political consequences
• economic consequences
• analysis
• chess
• Trump

Keywords

• Iran War
• political analysis
• economic analysis
• Trump
• Suez
• Waterloo
• chess

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Books & works: Escalating from Suez to Waterloo

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