Robert Stark speaks with German journalist and author, Constantin von Hoffmeister, about the geopolitics of the Iran War. Constantin is director of the online publishing house, Multipolar Press, and has worked as an author, journalist, translator, editor, and business trainer in the United States, India, Uzbekistan, and Russia. Constantin has a new book out, The Fate of White America. Follow him on X and subscribe to his Substack, Eurosiberia. (update: this podcast was recorded last week during the ceasefire and the war is escalating again today)

Topics:

-The case that the Iran war was for Israel and whether antisemitic narratives deny Trump culpability-How Trump did not even bother with a propaganda campaign for the war-How the US attack was entirely unprovoked, which along with attacks on Iranian civilians, discredits the Trump admin-How Israel wants Iran totally destroyed rather than regime change-Why Iran is rational for seeking nuclear armament, and how mutual self-destruction maintains peace-How Iran is a civilizational state unlike Arab or Latin American nations-Contrasting the failed Iran war with Trump’s successful invasion of Venezuela-How ironically this war would be less likely under an establishment president-The absurdity of Trump’s statements and lack of any coherent plans-How Trump admitted to arming protesters to get protesters harmed rather than regime change-The violation of the reciprocity principle in bombing anti-regime Iranians and why Constantin is skeptical of any large-scale opposition to the government, even before the war-The pro-Shah, pro-Israel demonstrations among the Iranian diaspora-Why Constantin considers the term “regime” to be propaganda-How the US is desperately failing to prevent a multipolar order which this war is ushering in–Prof. Robert Pape on the escalation trap in which Iran has gained the upper hand by controlling the Strait of Hormuz -How long can the status quo of a stalemate with a blockade of the Strait last?-How this war exposes America as a paper tiger-War rhetoric as market manipulation to save the stock market and keep petrol prices down-The impacts of rising petrol prices on geopolitics and the global economy-How a fertilizer shortage will cause a global famine that will cause a massive refugee crisis into Europe–Nigeria now has more births than all of Europe, including Russia-Trump’s immigration policy of performative cruelty without deporting that many people-How America will shift from being a world power to a regional power in the Western Hemisphere-The Russia/Ukraine war; Russia as the aggressor from the non-aggression principle vs the argument that Russia’s geopolitical sphere was threatened-Revisiting the past when Iran offered an olive branch to the US after 9/11-How Obama’s Iran nuclear deal was successful, which Trump ripped up, discrediting diplomatic trust in the US-How the war squanders any of Trump’s positive policy accomplishments and discredits nationalism and the Right-Would we be better off if Kamala were president?-Why Robert thinks that automation will reverse immigration to America in the long term, though not for Europe-The impact of Trump and the war on Europe’s politics, and how Germany’s AFD is successfully distancing themselves from Trump-An accelerationist case in favor of Trump weakening American imperialism and ending the American establishment’s soft power-How radical Islam is primarily a Sunni, not Shia, problem (eg. Sunni extremist iconoclasm)-How Islamophobia detracts from the culpability of Western elites-Michel Houellebecq’s prophetic novel, Submission, about an Islamic takeover of France, which is ambiguous about whether that is a good or bad thing-How remigration is unworkable and ethnopluralism as an alternative-The Indo-Aryan connection between Iranians and Europeans, and remnants of pre-Islamic paganism in Iran-How Israel was semi sane when it was more Ashkenazi, thus closer to Europe, and how it is just becoming another Middle Eastern country-Whether Zionism could have worked if it didn’t embrace imperialism

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