About this episode
Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau discuss the West's military weaknesses in the context of the Iran conflict and historical events.
🔗 Click the following link to get tickets to 'The Econoclasts LIVE' in London on March 23rd: https://unherd.com/econoclastslive In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau strip away the orthodoxies surrounding the ongoing conflict with Iran, and – via analysis of the 1953 CIA coup to the modern-day ‘Syrianisation’ of the Middle East - reveal a strategy-less West paralysed by its own deindustrialisation, dangerously dependent on China, and projecting power externally to mask a profound systemic rot at home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Hosts: Yanis Varoufakis, Wolfgang Munchau
Topics covered
- military weakness
- Iran conflict
- Western strategy
- deindustrialisation
- Middle East politics
Keywords
- Iran
- military weakness
- CIA coup
- deindustrialisation
- Middle East
- China
- Western strategy
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CIA
Places: Iran, Middle East, China
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