Is there a deeper strategy underlying President Trump’s actions?
Dan is joined by historian, Free Press columnist, CBS contributor, and Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution Sir Niall Ferguson to connect the dots on how President Trump is using leverage, unpredictability, and selective force across Iran, Venezuela, Europe, and beyond. They discuss why a counter revolution in Iran has little chance without foreign intervention, what “regime alteration” means, whether we're still living through Cold War II, and why Europe keeps taking the bait.
In this episode…
- Iran strike timing, targets, and endgame
- “Regime alteration” vs. regime change
- Why Iran’s protests failed and fear works
- Turkey’s mediation and Erdoğan’s ambitions
- Saudi pressure and regional deterrence logic
- Cold War II and the authoritarian axis
- Davos, Europe’s weakness, and the Greenland distraction
- MAGA tensions, Israel, deterrence, and Taiwan
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From the episode:
- Niall Ferguson’s essay in the Free Press, “The Myth of Revolution in Iran”
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