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The Owen Jones Podcast

Trump Won’t SURVIVE THIS - Yanis Varoufakis

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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0:00.0

Just go get your own oil. That's Donald Trump's latest outburst of his so-called tree social website.

0:06.3

He said you'll have to start learning how to fight for yourself.

0:08.4

The USA won't be there to help you anymore, just like you weren't there for us.

0:12.6

And he says it's countries like the UK, needs to have the courage to go to the straight of homers and just take fuel.

0:18.3

Sounds a little bit like some attempt to sort of walk away from this disaster

0:24.6

and just leave the straight of homers as is with all the economic consequences. We've got a lot to

0:30.9

talk about today with the incredible Yanis fratuckus who doesn't really need an injunction. You know who he is.

0:35.7

Brilliant economist, former Greek finance minister, author. Great, just a great all-round guy as well, which is helpful. Great to speedy. How

0:43.3

you doing? It's very good to see you on. I'm feeling a bit sinful and have this guilt that I'm reasonably well in a world that is going down the toilet.

0:59.0

It is, actually. I'm not going to try and cushion that particular physiology. It is what it is. We might as well just be honest.

1:09.0

How you just say, what's your general feeling right now

1:13.5

about a war which has now gone on for a month um which Donald Trump expected to be over in days

1:20.5

after they took out the supreme leader what's your where you're at with this well it's i have to say that I was very puzzled when he allowed Israel to do to him that which Israel failed to do in his first term.

1:37.3

Because he recalled, of course, I went that in the first term of Donald Trump, Netanyahu again tried to railroad the United States like he had done with other

1:47.2

presidents before to try to get them to participate in Israeli US attack on Iran. And Trump

1:55.4

1.0 had said no to that. And he was re-elected on the bank. The only silver lining in the

2:00.6

Thunder Cloud called Donald Trump was that he was re-elected on the bed. The only silver lining in the thunder

2:00.9

cloud called Donald Trump was that he was saying no war, unlike the Democrats who had consumed

2:06.2

or gone into bed with the neocons. And so I have to say, I was puzzled that he allowed himself

2:13.0

to be dragged into this, because once he was dragged into this there's no easy way out what i do hope he does

2:19.2

is that which roman emperors used to do when the roman empire was not particularly strong and they would

2:26.3

send allegiance to what is today germany to fight the gods and the gods would kick their backside

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