Trump’s Iran strikes and the new forever war

About this episode

Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau discuss the implications of the U.S. bombing campaign against Iran and its shift towards a permanent war doctrine.

🔗 Click the following link to get tickets to 'The Econoclasts LIVE: Is Russia really a threat to Europe?' in London on March 23rd: https://unherd.com/econoclastslive In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the geopolitical fallout of the U.S. bombing campaign against Iran, arguing that the strikes signal a definitive shift toward a "permanent war doctrine" and expose how Donald Trump has abandoned his non-interventionist promises to embrace a neocon agenda of regional destabilisation. From the erosion of European sovereignty to the strategic victories handed to China and Russia, Yanis and Wolfgang challenge the "weapons of mass destruction" pretexts of the past and analyse the high economic and human cost of a conflict that seems designed to have no end. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Yanis Varoufakis

Guest: Wolfgang Munchau

Topics covered

• geopolitics
• U.S. foreign policy
• Iran conflict
• permanent war doctrine
• Trump administration
• European sovereignty
• China and Russia

Keywords

• Trump
• Iran
• geopolitical fallout
• permanent war
• neocon agenda
• European sovereignty
• China
• Russia
• economic cost
• human cost

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: UnHerd

Places: Iran, Europe, China, Russia

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