War Clouds Over Iran
On The Time of Monsters: Amir Handjani on Trump’s new threats.
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War Clouds Over Iran w/ Amir Handjani | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
Donald Trump is sending over what he calls “a massive Armada” to Iran with the
promises to do a reprise of his quick attack on Venezuela that ended with the
kidnapping of president Nicolás Maduro. Trump claims that “like with
Venezuela, it is, ready, willing, and able to rapidly fulfill its mission.” But will a
war with Iran really be so simple? To look at the prospects for war and the
larger politics driving the conflict, I spoke with Amir Handjani of The Quincy
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Donald Trump is sending over what he calls “a massive armada” to Iran, promising to repeat the kind of quick attack that ended with the kidnapping of President Nicholas Maduro in Venezuela. Trump claims that, “like with Venezuela, [the US] is ready, willing, and able to rapidly fulfill its mission.” But will a war with Iran really be so simple? To look at the prospects for war and the larger politics driving the conflict, I spoke with Amir Handjani of The Quincy Institute.
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The End of American Global Power? W/ Anusar Farooqui | The Time of Monsters with Jeet Heer
The conflict in the Middle East is currently in an intermittent holding action with an extended ceasefire but no diplomatic breakthrough. To assess where things are going, I sat down with the foreign policy analyst Anusar Farooqui, who runs an excellent substack called Policy Tensor and posts on Twitter here. We discussed the resiliency and growing stature of Iran, as well as the signs that unipolar US hegemony is coming to an end, to be replaced by a multipolar world.
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