Shashank Joshi on Why the War in the Middle East Won’t End Anytime Soon
The Good Fight
Yascha Mounk
4.7 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:19.8 | You have a brittle regime, a weak regime, but it's not about to fall apart, although I do wish, |
| 0:26.3 | I wish it were, and it's full of people who in some ways are younger, more radical, more |
| 0:33.1 | ideological than the people who have been killed in large numbers in previous days. |
| 0:38.1 | And now the Good Fight with Yasha Monk. |
| 0:47.0 | Well, for the last weeks, I've been waking up every morning |
| 0:50.3 | and looking at a few different news sources to try and understand |
| 0:53.3 | what is happening in the |
| 0:55.7 | war in the Middle East. And I have to say that I've had a little bit of trouble making heads |
| 1:00.6 | or tales of it. I can tell you about all kinds of developments over the last weeks, but I struggle |
| 1:06.1 | to actually give you the through line, to give you a real assessment of such basic questions |
| 1:11.0 | as to whether the United States are achieving the war aims, as to whether Donald Trump |
| 1:16.1 | still is able to end the war if he decides to do that tomorrow, as to how long the disruption |
| 1:20.7 | of the world economy and of energy markets is going to last. |
| 1:25.4 | So I invited an old friend onto the podcast to help me make sense of these |
| 1:31.5 | questions and give me orientation in the world, something that he's uniquely able to do. |
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