Confronting Capitalism: Trump’s Historic Blunder in Iran

<p>The US-Israeli war against Iran may have been initiated without any coherently stated goals or popular support, but we can already see that it’s a horrific quagmire. It also doesn’t look like Trump and Israel will get the swift Iranian regime change they hoped for.</p>

<p>On the latest episode of <em>Confronting Capitalism</em>, Vivek Chibber is joined by Jason Brownlee, a professor of government at the University of Texas Austin, to discuss the history of regime change wars, the geopolitical interests in the Middle East, and Trump’s further descent into the neoconservative blob.</p>

<p>Read Jason’s most recent <em>Catalyst</em> essay here: <a href="https://catalyst-journal.com/2021/03/shadow-wars-and-corporate-welfare" rel="nofollow">https://catalyst-journal.com/2021/03/shadow-wars-and-corporate-welfare</a></p>

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