Who Is Profiting from Trump's Iran Catastrophe?
3/25/202654 min
Are Russia, Israel, and Iran itself the real winners from Trump and Netanyahu’s war? Is Starmer right to resist more British involvement in the war? Will the Gulf states realign with Europe and ‘middle powers’ as a result of America’s latest exploits in the Middle East?
Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all these questions and more.
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First 90 secondsAlastair Campbell· Host0:00
Thanks for listening to The Rest is Politics. To support the podcast, listen without the adverts and get early access to episodes and live show tickets, go to therestispolitics.com. That's therestispolitics.com. This is going to be an absolute case study of how hubris and ego and lack of foresight and mixed messaging leads you further and further into a terrible, terrible place, and I think that's where Trump is right now.
Rory Stewart· Host0:27
It's just so difficult to explain why he's doing something that is so clearly not in the US national interest.
Alastair Campbell· Host0:32
He's provoked a conflict over which now nobody seems to have much control, least of all him.
Rory Stewart· Host0:39
This is probably the most dangerous moment we've had for many, many decades.
Alastair Campbell· Host0:44
Do you think this is potential world war territory? I think we might be in it.
Rory Stewart· Host0:48
[upbeat music] Welcome to The Rest is Politics with me, Rory Stewart.
Alastair Campbell· Host0:59
And with me, Alastair Campbell. So Rory, we're going to talk about Iran, inevitably. We've had the big build-up to Donald Trump saying he's going to be demolishing Iran's energy infrastructure, and we've then had the big seeming climb down based upon his claim that they'd had these productive talks with Iran. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about the developments since then, and we'll most importantly try to work out why on earth this is happening and why on earth it's in the mess that it's in. We're also going to talk about assisted