Fascism Needs a Corporatist Collab & Tensions Spiral Between the US, Iran & its Proxies

In this episode, Alex starts by wishing he never heard a new anti-woke rap song that features Ben Shapiro. Then he gets into the recent deaths of three American soldiers in an isolated part of Jordan that the US military has been using for years. Alex argues that this can be seen as an important moment — the United States should look at its policies towards Iran and its proxies and realize that both deterrence and diplomacy are not working. Finally, Alex argues that Fascism always needs support from the capitalists and monopolists, and visa versa. Last week at Davos, Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, started to warm up to a Trump 2.0 Administration. He argued similar talking points that were used by elites to justify Mussolini in the 1930s — the economy was good, immigration was quelled, the world was stable, and the trains ran on time. Alex wishes we could learn more from history.