The Global Fallout of Donald Trump’s War on Iran
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Ramnick. Last week, Donald Trump launched a war against Iran. And in the days that followed, the administration's rationale has shifted on a nearly daily basis, talking with one reporter.
quarter after another, the president and his advisors as well seem to road test ideas and potential outcomes in public, frequently contradicting one another. The administration seems to want things both ways or always. Pete Heggseth scoffs at nation building. calling that concept dumb. No more endless wars, he says.
And yet Donald Trump apparently wants regime change, an entirely new government in Iran, and he won't rule out boots on the ground. J. D. Vance says Trump won't allow a long war, while Trump himself muses that we have enough weapons to fight forever. There is a very familiar and ominous ring to all of this.
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