Trump’s War: The man with no plan bombs Iran
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The Matts do their level best to make sense of the last three days - events which make little sense in isolation, but once a wider spectrum of factors comes into play, does a sinister strategy emerge? Donald Trump is defying the US electorate just at a time when he needs to be rebuilding support. Why doesn’t he care? Was the suspected aspiration for a short four- or five-day conflict, followed by a swift return to the negotiating table, as insane as it seems? And how does this affect the UK economy and Keir Starmer’s government? We are in the foothills of this crisis - so no better time to get the map out and try to work out which way we’re headed. Join The Two Matts as they pore over the contour lines of a very rocky landscape. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Trump was bedazzled by the Venezuela operation in which Maduro and his wife were abducted in January. |
| 0:09.0 | They are not amateurs, you know, they have professionally established themselves within Iranian society. |
| 0:17.0 | They are ruthless bastards, we know that. |
| 0:20.0 | You know, we're not in World War III, and it's |
| 0:23.2 | exaggerated to say that, but already in a couple of days, the range of this is mind-volving. |
| 0:33.2 | Hello and happy Monday. Happy one, any one, everyone all? |
| 0:36.5 | Hope you all had a good weekend. |
| 0:37.9 | Obviously, this is an ad hoc in Promptu podcast based on the last 96 hours now, no 72 hours, I guess. |
| 0:48.2 | Something like that, yeah. |
| 0:49.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.1 | Where the world has changed substantially since we last spoke. |
| 0:53.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.5 | Matt, do you want to give a little recap for anybody who has not been paying attention to what's happened? |
| 1:01.1 | Well, I mean, just in terms of what's happened so far rather than passing any judgment on it, which we'll get on to, |
| 1:06.9 | I mean, Trump announced in a pre-recorded clip-on through social from Marilago that he had |
| 1:13.6 | authorized operations in Iran in conjunction with Israel. |
| 1:17.6 | And he made it very clear that the objective was not just to take out what remains of the nuclear capacity of the Iranian regime, but regime change. And he, uh, very, in a very |
| 1:30.8 | declarative fashion, uh, stretched out a hand to the Iranian people and invited them to seize |
| 1:36.0 | this opportunity. Once in a generation, he said, to rise up, um, and to seize control of their, |
| 1:43.3 | uh, of their future. |
| 1:45.0 | The, what has then happened is, is an escalation of the crisis to the whole region. |
| 1:54.0 | We already know today that an RAF base in Cyprus has been hit by an Iranian drone. |
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