How Iran exposed the West’s military weakness

How Iran exposed the West’s military weakness

March 10, 2026 · 34 min

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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.

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