The Week: Iran, IPO Mania, and the New American Dream

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**George Hahn** (1:44)
Welcome to The Week from Prof G Media, where we break down what mattered and what it all means. I'm George Hahn and it's Friday, June 12th. Today, we get into what the Iran War is revealing about American power. Then, nearly a trillion dollars in new stock is about to hit the market. And finally, why optimizing your life might be the surest way to miss it.
Let's get into it.
This week, Scott sat down with two of the sharpest foreign policy minds alive, Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and staff writer at The Atlantic, and Fiona Hill, former National Security Council official and one of the world's leading experts on Russia and geopolitics. And after more than 100 days of war with Iran, neither sounded particularly optimistic about where things are headed.

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The IRGC is a car dealership. Trump is a car purchaser browsing for cars.
And Trump is trying to negotiate, and has accidentally or has let the car dealership know that he needs a car to get home, or that he's playing poker and his cards are turned upside down and he has a weak hand. Fiona, your thoughts?

**Fiona Hill** (3:02)
I think that's absolutely true. And I think the other part of your analogy here is that Trump also thinks that he's the seller, not just the buyer. And that is the problem because he's always telling the Iranians what he would do. And in real time, he's laying out everything, everything that he's thinking.
So, of course, there is no incentive whatsoever for them to make a deal on any kind of basis right now because they have no certainty, no assurances of what the outcome is going to be. So Trump every single day confounds his own ability to make any progress.

**George Hahn** (3:31)
On the war in Ukraine, the story that deserved far more attention than it got this week, Anne had just returned from Kiev and told us her report. Something has fundamentally shifted.

**Anne Applebaum** (3:44)
The real interesting part of this story is not so much that Ukraine has gone from defense to offense, is that Ukraine has changed completely the way this war is being fought.
So what you have to understand about the Ukrainian front line, is that it's a 20-mile-wide zone.
It's not like a line that people are fighting against. It's a 20-mile-wide zone, which is now completely transparent. And the Ukrainians can see everything in it because of their extraordinary, the literally millions of drones that they've built in the last couple of years. They have reconnaissance drones. They have short-range drones, long-range drones. They can see the whole front line. And every time any Russian truck or car or person comes into the zone, they see that person, and they can hit them. And these huge numbers of people dying, 1,000 a day, 30,000 a month, or being dying or being wounded, are coming from the fact that despite the existence of this zone, the Russians have until now continued sending people in it. And even at the beginning of this year and late last year, by doing that, they were able to move it forward a little bit. So many resources were being thrown into it that they were still moving. That has now stopped completely. They cannot move forward.