Even Experts Can't Explain WTF Trump Is Doing In Iran

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In speech after speech during the 2024 election cycle, Trump promised that he wouldn’t engage in regime change or nation building. If you turned that into a drinking game, you’d need a new liver by now. And now, he hasn’t just done it once. He’s done it twice. This past weekend, Trump proved once again that you know he’s lying because his mouth is moving. While it’s not entirely surprising he invaded Iran, it’s still a shock and awe moment that will go down as one of his most cataclysmic decisions in his dangerous and chaotic history. And here’s the thing: Iran isn’t Iraq. Or Afghanistan. Or Venezuela. Iran is the 6th largest country in Asia (around 92M), with a GDP of over $400B. They have vastly superior military capabilities than many of its neighbors. Even if we can all agree that it’s not being ruled by anything that even looks like a pluralistic democratic regime, you could also argue the same thing about the modern U.S. Imagine how (rightly!) fucking pissed you’d be if a foreign nation assassinated our leaders without backing from its populous and started bombing our nation’s capital. And that’s just what Trump has done…again. But this time, he’s picked a dangerous and wealthy enemy. To put it mildly: Fuck. We sat down with Gregg Carlston live from Riyadh (Middle East correspondent, The Economist), and Andrew Miller (former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs) who spoke to us to try and make sense of the region’s reaction to the invasion. 👕 **Merch** made in the USA & union-made: https://findoutpodcast.com 📬 Subscribe to bonus content: https://findoutpodcast.substack.com 📱 Follow us everywhere: @FindOutPodcast 📣 Share this episode & tag us #FindOutPodcast 📥 Send us feedback and tips: hello@findoutpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the Find Out podcast. Thanks for bearing with us last week,
0:04.2	as we didn't have an episode as we were doing our live State of the Union show from Washington, D.C., which thanks to everybody who watched that. And Luke and my hands, if you watched it, you'll know. Still hurt. Oh, you're still hurt. Mine's covered. So, I mean, I guess maybe there's a, there's a little bit of a benefit to be able to go. What did you guys do with your hands that led them to hurt together.
0:22.7	Every time someone, uh,
0:24.6	subscribe. a there's a little bit of a benefit. What did you guys do with your hands that led them to hurt together? Every time someone, uh, subscribed, including Rich himself, uh, to our YouTube channel, we did high fives. No, no, you've got to keep it. We did high fives. And after the 50th, we had 50, uh, our hands were getting a little rough. But, uh, But now we're back to our show and we're joined
0:39.2	by a very special guest today. Obviously, the only topic that anyone's talking about is the new
0:44.7	Iran war at which the United States started this weekend. And we are joined by Greg Carlstrom,
0:50.2	who is a Middle East correspondent with the economist. So Greg, thank you very much for joining us.
0:55.0	Thanks for having me. Happy to be here.
0:57.0	So Greg is actually in Riyadh, so he is right in the thick of everything.
1:01.0	But I want to go to the beginning.
1:03.0	Like, do you have a sense?
1:06.0	What is the United States plan and goal with this military intervention, which I think most
1:14.1	of us in the United States are kind of looking at each other, trying to wonder what the urgency
1:17.1	is.
1:18.1	And we're wondering if you could shed some light on that for us, or not?
1:21.3	I don't have a sense.
1:23.3	I mean, the short answer is, no, I can't shed any light on that.
1:27.2	We have heard just about
1:28.8	every explanation that you can think of from Donald Trump over the past three days. If you go back
1:35.1	to Saturday morning, our time here when the war started, Trump put out this video message,
1:41.6	this eight-minute statement on social media. And he talked about wanting
1:46.5	to, he said, raise Iran's ballistic missile program, annihilate its navy. And then he called on
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