Trump’s Historic Blunder in Iran
Both the White House and Israel wanted swift regime change in Iran. Instead they’ve triggered a spiraling conflict with no plausible endgame.
Iran was never on the brink of starting a war. Now Washington and Tel Aviv have manufactured a crisis they can’t control. (Majid Saeedi / Getty Images)
The US-Israeli war against Iran, launched without any coherently stated goals or popular support, is already turning into a horrific quagmire. It also doesn’t look like Donald Trump and Israel will get the swift Iranian regime change they hoped for.
In this episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast Confronting Capitalism, Vivek Chibber is joined by Jason Brownlee, a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, to discuss the history of regime change wars, the geopolitical interests in the Middle East, and Trump’s further descent into the neoconservative blob.
Confronting Capitalism with Vivek Chibber is produced by Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy and published by Jacobin. You can listen to the full episode here. This transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
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