Trump, Iran, and the Logic of Chaos

Lee Siegel and David Rieff take up the U.S. conflict with Iran, asking what kind of war this is and where it goes from here. They dig into Trump's motives (midterm politics, his taste for chaos, his absence of fixed principles) and whether he could hand the campaign off to Israel to avoid deeper entanglement. The conversation moves through Iran's long institutional memory, the threat of retaliation and terrorism in the West, Saudi and Israeli leverage, and the internal fractures that sustained bombing might exploit or widen. They close on Trump's transactional worldview, the historical analogues it invites, and the question of whether any of this can be undone.

Executive producer Matty Rosenberg
Edited by Lee Siegel, David Rieff, and Matty Rosenberg
Additional video editing by Matty Rosenberg and Esther Martel
Music arrangement and performance by Matt Schreiber

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