The Econoclasts

Iran exposes the West’s biggest military weakness


March 11, 2026
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In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau strip away the orthodoxies surrounding the ongoing conflict with Iran, and – via analysis of the 1953 CIA coup to the modern-day ‘Syrianization’ of the Middle East – reveal a strategy-less West paralyzed by its own deindustrialization, dangerously dependent on China, and projecting power externally to mask a profound systemic rot at home.

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