
Trump’s Iran War Is Spinning Out of Control (Plus: A Goodbye) | Shield of the Republic

Eric and Eliot open their final show on the Bulwark with a plethora of jackassery including Trump's threat to bomb Oman, his curtailing of joint exercises with South Korea, and the Pentagon shuttering access to the Defense Technical Information Center. They also discuss updates in Iran, Russia, and Venezuela before turning to a retrospective of the major international developments during Shield's five year run on the Bulwark. Finally, they close with reflections about what they got wrong along the way.
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:34 Trump and South Korea
00:09:32 Threats and Navy Changes
00:13:22 Pentagon Innovation and Transparency
00:19:24 Iran War Risks
00:26:07 Sanctions and Iranian Resilience
00:31:30 Ukraine, Elections and Russia
00:37:23 Venezuela After Maduro
00:41:14 Five Years in Review
00:46:33 What We Got Wrong
00:51:17 Can Global Leadership Recover?
00:55:18 Shield’s Next Chapter
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Video Summary
AI GeneratedEric Edelman and Elliot Cohen analyze the destabilizing effects of Donald Trump's foreign policy and military decisions. They discuss strained alliances in the Indo-Pacific, erratic diplomacy in the Middle East, and a concerning trend of anti-intellectualism and aesthetic-driven interference within the U.S. Department of Defense, while reflecting on broader institutional decay in the United States.
