🔗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