Trump's Grand Strategy: Iran, China & The New World Order | Kamran Bokhari

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🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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A deep dive into Trump’s emerging grand strategy and the geopolitical logic behind the Iran conflict. Kamran Bokhari joins Bankless to unpack how the U.S. is trying to reshape the Middle East, manage tensions with China and Russia, and transition from direct intervention toward a new model of burden-sharing, regional power balancing, and global restraint. ------ 📣SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 https://bankless.cc/spotify-premium ------ 🔮POLYMARKET | #1 PREDICTION MARKET https://bankless.cc/polymarket-podcast 🪐GALAXY | INSTITUTIONAL DIGITAL FINANCE https://bankless.cc/galaxy-podcast 🏅BITGET TRADFI | TRADE GOLD WITH USDT https://bankless.cc/bitget 🎯THE DEFI REPORT | ONCHAIN INSIGHTS https://thedefireport.io/bankless 🐇MEGAETH | 1ST REAL-TIME BLOCKCHAIN https://bankless.cc/megaeth ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:56 Iran War Unstated Motives 10:03 Trump’s Goals 18:43 China’s Role 26:43 Venezuela & Cuba 28:22 US China Relationship 34:27 Optimizing Global Relationships 39:56 Iran War Best Approach 47:12 Does Iran Want to Negotiate? 51:30 Iran Regime Change 56:51 Israel Interests 1:00:36 Marco Rubio 1:05:24 Signal in the Noise 1:07:25 Closing & Disclaimers ------ RESOURCES Kamran Bokhari on X https://x.com/KamranBokhari LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamranbokhari/ New Lines Institute https://newlinesinstitute.org/people/kamran-bokhari/ Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/kamranbokhari/ ------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

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0:00.0	And unfortunately, we're in an age where the amount of information available to people
0:05.3	has just sort of exponentially increased and continues to increase,
0:10.0	while our abilities, our collective ability to analyze in a sort of like an disciplined manner
0:16.8	has tumbled significantly.
0:19.1	And we now are more prone to conspiracy theories, politicized conversations,
0:25.4	partisan discourses, fake news, and so on and so forth.
0:29.3	It's a species level problem, and it is the biggest conundrum
0:32.8	that the planet is facing, in my opinion, for the long haul.
0:40.2	Big List Nation, I'm here with Kamran Bakari. He is a geopolitical analyst and foreign policy expert
0:45.5	focusing on the politics of the Middle East and South Asia. He also serves as the senior director
0:50.0	at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy. Kamran, welcome to bankless.
0:55.5	Thanks for having me.
0:56.9	Kamran, there are a bunch of questions that I have that I'll kind of categorize as the
1:01.7	second order and order consequences with the fallout of the war in Iran, which is ongoing.
1:08.9	We actually don't really know how that will settle.
1:10.5	I'll have
1:10.8	questions for you about that as well, but I really want to kind of ask what happens next in the whole
1:16.3	Middle East and Asia region. There's the stated reasons about why we went to a war with Iran. Trump
1:25.4	gave that eight-minute video early Saturday morning two weeks ago
1:28.6	about all the reasons why we started this. The 47 years of hostility and terrorism, the historical
1:34.3	attacks on America, the urgency to prevent Iran from attaining a nuclear weapon, the need to
1:39.4	neutralize the proxy networks. These are all the stated reasons. I want to learn a little bit more about the
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