Team Iran vs Team Israel

The Eurointelligence Podcast

Wolfgang Munchau

News, Eu, European Politics, Political Economy, Italy, Brexit, Recovery Fund, Political Risk, Business, European Union, Netherlands, Ecb, Economics, Uk, Fiscal Union, Government, Transatlantic Relations, European Integration, France, Geopolitics, Eurozone, Banking, China, Spain, Germany, Political Union, Politics, Trade, Eu-china

4.5 • 30 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In our latest one-hour podcast, our team discusses global consequences of the Israel-Iran war, and its geopolitical and geoeconomic consequences. In our special section, we have an in-depth discussion about the effect on oil prices, and the limits and extent of solidarity amongst the Brics countries.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Eurointelligence podcast, our extended edition.
0:03.7	Today we're going to talk about Iran.
0:05.7	We are recording this podcast on Wednesday morning.
0:08.9	We will not know what happens today and tomorrow,
0:11.9	so we will have to talk about the medium-to-long-term issues
0:15.6	that we are in the stuff that's still true in 48 hours.
0:19.7	The broader issues we're going to discuss are indeed of a long-term nature.
0:23.3	And one of those is this sort of dual play between Israel and the United States.
0:27.8	The people refer to the good cop, bad cop scenario.
0:31.1	Zuzana, how does this play out?
0:32.8	Is this a sustainable strategy?
0:34.9	Is it a good strategy?
0:36.5	Is it working?
0:41.0	And what will it leave us with, most importantly? One of striking things in the last 24 hours, actually, that Donald Trump
0:46.0	dismissed the intelligence, his own intelligence services, who tempered and said, well, we don't
0:52.6	see actually that Iran was close to have nuclear weapons.
0:56.6	And Donald Trump openly said, well, I disagree with you, and I actually side with Benjamin Netanyahu.
1:02.1	This very little snippet was revealing in a sense that you say, well, you wonder, why would he reject his own intelligence?
1:10.2	There are only two scenarios in my view.
1:12.7	One is that there is a bigger game clan.
1:15.6	This would be like the good cup, bad cup thing.
1:18.8	And he just leveraged every time also.
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