What the West Is Getting Dangerously Wrong About Iran
A rare 360-degree conversation with Gillian Tett, Arab League Secretary General designate Nabil Fahmy, and global insiders on the Iran conflict, energy shocks, and why the off-ramp still exists - if anyone is willing to take it.
Main Guests
Gillian Tett
Provost of King's College, Cambridge + Columnist & Editorial Board Member at the Financial Times
Sir Martin Sorrell
Founder & Executive Chairman of S4 Capital, Founder & CEO of WPP
Esther Dyson
Chairman of EDventure Holdings, active tech and health investor, and founding Chairman of ICANN
and more...
From the discussion
The single most valuable asset that the Ukrainians have arguably today is the largest training set of data for AI-enabled drones — and they're sitting on it.
“I don't see any way that China does not emerge stronger from what's happening in the Gulf vis-à-vis the US.
“China has control over a lot of choke points and has prepared much more effectively for these fights — and I don't think the Americans have woken up to the implications of this.
“We have moved into a culture of violence and a lack of humanity — and I think reestablishing norms is going to be extremely important.
“The fertilizer that's supposed to come out of the Middle East is not really moving. This is planting season — and the world is going to be way under-harvesting because of the war.
“Use of force has become an acceptable mode to deal with conflicts. It's no longer the exception — it's actually the norm.
“The most rapid pace of water scarcity in the world is in the Middle East — and that will increase in the next few years.
“Russia now has desanctioned oil — and the irony is this gives Putin more firepower and more treasury for conducting the war in Ukraine.
“Two drones destroyed the idea of security in the Emirates. The stock exchange dropped 22% and wiped out billions.
“The Iranian regime — it's an existential crisis for them and they will fight literally to the death. People have underestimated what they'll do in relation to the Straits.
“This is like a huge fight on the playground and the grown-ups are all out of action. The challenge is to get America to start behaving like a grown-up — otherwise it's going to get ten times worse.
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