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Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau discuss the political dynamics of Keir Starmer in the UK and the implications of Donald Trump's actions regarding Iran.

🔗Get your tickets for The Econoclasts Live with Hasan Piker here: http://unherd.com/econoclastslive In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect Keir Starmer’s attempts to maintain power in a declining UK economy alongside the paradoxical surge in US market wealth triggered by Donald Trump’s war with Iran - a conflict that is failing to smoke out Tehran while simultaneously enriching a narrow elite of tech lords and fracking independents at the expense of the global working class. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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