The Econoclasts is a new podcast from UnHerd hosted by economist Yanis Varoufakis and journalist Wolfgang Munchau. While they don’t always agree politically, they are united in one conviction: the consensus is rotten. Mainstream economics has consistently failed to predict the events that shape our world, yet this broken orthodoxy still dominates policy and media. Each week, they choose two pillars of the established orthodoxy — the “settled facts” — and shatter them, cutting through the spin to connect the dots between money, geopolitics, and the real forces shaping our future.
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🔗Go to our sponsor https://venice.ai/unherd and use code UNHERD to enjoy private and anonymous AI. Using our code will get you 20% off a pro plan. 📰 Subscribe to UnHerd today at: https://bit.ly/4cfaeH0 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. Watch it on the UnHerd website: https://unherd.com/watch-listen/iran-exposes-the-wests-biggest-military-weakness/ Listen to the podcast: https://plnk.to/unherd?to=page Advertise on UnHerd @ zoe.white@unherd.com Follow UnHerd on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/unherd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unherd/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unherd/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unherdtv //TIMECODES// 00:00 - 00:53 - Intro 01:03 - 02:18 - Today’s topics 02:18 - 03:19 - Sponsor: Venice AI 03:19 - 10:08 - War supply shock: ammo, radar, and China’s grip 10:08 - 12:22 - Iran as a ‘criminal war’ and deindustrialised West 12:22 - 15:33 - MBA mentality 15:33 - 20:00 - Free trade dogma vs strategic industry and war goals 20:00 - 29:25 - Iran’s modern history: from 1953 coup to ISIS 29:25 - 33:38 - Neoliberal Iran, Mahsa Amini, and fear of “another Syria” 33:38 - 35:37 - Netanyahu, international law, and US grand blunder 35:37 - 36:18 - Outro #UnHerd #Iran #Europe