Dire Strait: Brothers In Arms

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Co-hosts Nick Hauselman and Jared Yates Sexton analyze a world barreling toward escalation as the Trump administration stares down a closed Strait of Hormuz. While the American economy teeters, European allies have begun navigating their own paths, negotiating directly with Iran and signaling a massive fracture in the Western alliance. The duo examines the disconnect between military reality and the hubris of an administration that seems to have ignored the tactical nightmares of Persian topography and drone warfare. From the potential collapse of the petrodollar to the suspicious timing of Chinese military sorties around Taiwan, the conversation maps out the crumbling of the American global order. This episode also dives into the bizarre rift between Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson. With Carlson alleging a CIA-led criminal referral against him, Nick and Jared peel back the layers of deep politics, investigating whether this is a genuine investigation or a shot across the bow in a brewing far-right civil war. Join our patreon and unlock a lot of great content like Live Shows and our Discord discussion: http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody.
0:03.1	Welcome to the McCrack podcast from J.D. Xxman. Here, Nick Alstman. I'm refreshed after the weekend. How are you, my friend? Oh, you sound refreshed. It's always nice to hear that. Do I sound refreshed? Yeah, yeah, you do. It's in the voice. Maybe it's because we're recording this earlier in the day. Oh, that's very interesting. Well, do you think so? In the mind. Energy levels up, I think. Yeah, maybe. Maybe that's nothing. Very, very possible. I'm fresh off of, you know, eating a little food myself. And so I've got energy stored, ready to go. We're ready to rip ass on this thing. We're going to get after it. Okay. Interesting choice of phrase,
0:40.0	but okay, let's do it. Let's rip some mess. Right, everybody. A reminder, if you want to support
0:45.5	the show, if you also want to hear the Weekender editions on Friday, which we know that you do,
0:50.2	you're already listening to the previews. You're already, you're getting a little taste for it.
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1:16.1	slash McGrick podcast. Nick, we start, I'm shocked. I'm shocked and surprised. I heard last week
1:25.6	the president of the United States of America tell me that the war
1:29.1	with Iran was pretty much done, pretty much all over. And here we are barreling into the next
1:35.5	week of belligerents. Things, things ain't great, Nick. The American economy and world
1:41.6	economies are sort of teetering on the edge and the brink of the razor.
1:45.7	Donald Trump, listen, if there's one thing I can say about that man, he is, he's an alliance maker,
1:52.2	Nick, he likes to do things by consensus, he likes to bring in other countries, get everybody
1:57.5	on the same page, he doesn't act unilaterally.
2:00.0	Shockingly enough enough he asked europe
2:01.8	to team up with the united states to now help him reopen the strait of Hormuz and uh from
2:08.2	everything i can tell europe has basically responded uh with one voice to say no no that's a nice way of
2:16.1	saying i think fuck you really i think fuck you is up there uh so weird how
2:21.0	watching europe uh start to navigate this on their own as well uh rumors are that about five
2:29.0	thousand marines are being prepared for the possibility of going into the Strait of Hormuz.
2:37.3	This, to me, feels like another one of those chapters,
2:40.2	a moment where the United States of America looks behind it and sees that nobody is following, save for Israel.
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