# Iran’s asymmetric victory & Europe’s looming energy shock

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Podcast: [The Econoclasts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-econoclasts-6347002)
Published: 2026-04-07T23:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect the crumbling facade of Western geostrategic and economic orthodoxies, arguing that the United States has already reached a military checkmate against Iran, while simultaneously warning that Europe’s delusion of energy independence and perilous vulnerability to supply shocks will likely collapse into a humiliating, American-mediated return to Russian gas. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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