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Ryan says the war is politically dangerous for Trump because it is already unpopular, worsening inflation and gas prices, and undermining the claim that he acts for U.S. interests.
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Gas prices
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Trump may boast that the US doesn't need the Strait, rocketing gas prices are spiking inflation, say otherwise. Recent polls show that voters now..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Trump may boast that the US doesn't need the Strait, rocketing gas prices are spiking inflation, say otherwise. Recent polls show that voters now..."
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"that Trump was more responsive when it came to the war in Iran to Benjamin Netanyahu than he was to the American public. I..."
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"They're particularly concerned because they've already still got inflation, still got rising costs. They've seen prices at the gas pump now rocketing in the..."
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"...Trump may boast that the US doesn't need the Strait, rocketing gas prices are spiking inflation, say otherwise. Recent polls show that voters now..."
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"...part to Trump's drill -baby -drill strategy, we had the lowest gas prices in 50 years adjusted for inflation. So everything was going swimmingly..."
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"...thing that we all know is that Americans hate paying high gas prices at the pump."
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"...of a sudden this this war with Iran and five dollar gas prices when we lead into the midterms. That might not be something..."
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"...if the global economy is suffering right if you're worried about gas prices if you're worried about um not having a job if you're..."
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"...as Europe. This is only just the beginning. We can expect gas prices to skyrocket so much that it essentially collapses the civilian aviation..."
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"...Albanese, they said to the people, we know that fuel prices, gas prices are going up, and we should expect more pain, but we..."
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"...see every family in the world be successful and pay lower gas prices. And I really... I really, like I said, I really do..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Jiang reframes Hormuz disruption as a production-system collapse and argues that escalation incentives make the Iran conflict a political-economic choke point beyond price shocks.
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Jiang frames the Iran war as a structural problem: empires that enter forceful conflicts without strategic reserve burn out, and the current administration is trying to steer around collapse, domestic optics, and a volatile...
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: American war culture has learned to convert military failure into rescue spectacle, while real wars are still decided by economics, organization, logistics, and endurance.
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central reversal: if Trump's goal is to preserve the old American empire, the Iran war looks insane.
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Piers brings Jiang on because two earlier predictions already landed and a third appears to be unfolding: Trump won, war with Iran came, and now the question is whether America can survive the kind...
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