I open with the hardest questions in this talk: did the Iran war come from one president or from a whole system, and did Washington follow Israel or share the same goal from the start? I sit down with Dr. Michael Brenner, emeritus professor of international affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, for a sharp and unsettling look at empire, elite consensus, and the road to Iran.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Introduction

00:00:38 American power and the road to Iran

00:08:53 Channel note and Substack

00:09:10 Trump and the long elite consensus

00:20:23 Israel and US strategic overlap

00:31:54 Western racism and imperial culture

00:48:06 Collapse of limits in Western politics

00:53:14 Trump and the Iran war endgame

Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, and the Collapse of Western Restraint | Prof. Michael Brenner