The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
00:14:35 · Fareed Zakaria
[00:14:35] S4: I think it is different this time. The Iran war is the most unpopular war in American history. It is the first war in the, really, in the modern era that has been unpopular from day one. So the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War were all popular when they began and then became unpopular as they dragged on, as they, you know, seem to... Were to be reaching kind of inconclusive, unsatisfying finishes. The Iran war has been unpopular from day one, the most unpopular war in American history. And I think it's for two reasons. One, nobody really understands why Trump began the war. After having six months earlier done this massive bombing campaign, which rather effectively set back Iran's nuclear program by months, if not years, probably years, I would argue, and that is borne out by some evidence. But then suddenly, on a whim, does it, seems to be about regime change, fails within the first three days when it's clear the Iranian regime is going to survive. That's one piece of it. And the second piece is there is such an obvious tie to inflation with this war. There's such an obvious tie to the simple pocketbook issues that everybody cares about that it's very hard to to deny. I mean, nobody... Even the administration has not tried to make the claim that the Iran war has not directly affected inflation. The Trump's only argument is, well, it'll go away once the war ends. But we're six months into the war, and it hasn't ended. So I think those two things make this case different. And I think, I hope it also... Again, this is where the Democrats can play a role. I hope it will make people understand that we have created a system in this country with just too much broad authority to the executive branch. This was completely the opposite of what the founding fathers wanted. They... Congress is the first branch of government. The phrase for the president is the president is meant to faithfully execute the laws that congress passes. Faithfully execute the laws. He was really seen as a kind of steward trying to make sure that laws were appropriately implemented. He has become a kind of king, particularly with the way the supreme court has ruled. And maybe this Iran war gives the Democrats an opening to say, look.
00:17:05 · Fareed Zakaria, Scott Galloway, S5
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00:18:11 · Scott Galloway, S6, S7, S8
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00:19:24 · S8, Scott Galloway
[00:19:24] S8: Stream all three episodes now, only on Peacock. [00:19:37] S3: You said something really powerful on your show on Sunday, and that is great powers have always made the mistake of assuming that force and might was the primary enduring attribute. And that Secretary Rubio in America has made the mistake of believing that's the case here, when in fact America's power has come not only from its might, but its values. A general belief that dignity rights afforded to someone by virtue of the fact that they were human, what I'll call mutual vested interest in your success and my success, kind of the idealized version of capitalism and democracy. And I found that found that very moving. And it feels like this administration, I mean, turning Japan and Germany from enemies who were brutal towards us and we were brutal towards them, we decided to tax American households to rebuild these great societies. And now we have these amazing allies. That was really the transform that was the difference between America being a fleeting power and an enduring power. And we may be giving that up. Can you expand on that notion? And is there an opportunity we're going to move back and start perhaps strengthening those alliances and moving back to what I'll call quite frankly, a more mutually beneficial. We're in this together, if you will, foreign policy standpoint.
00:21:05 · Fareed Zakaria
[00:21:05] S4: So on the right, there has been a fantasy that what we really need is for America to kind of stand up for what it is and for the West to stand up for what it is, which was this great, mighty imperial civilization that conquered the world and reshaped the globe. And that that was the distinctive quality of the West that, you know, all these namby pamby liberals are forgetting. And what's striking striking in that Marco Rubio speech that he gave in in Athens is that he talks about all the the strength, the courage, you know, the resourcefulness of Western civilization and how we have kind of started to apologize for it. But what he is describing, strength, power, resourcefulness, might, Genghis Khan had all of that. The Russian Empire had all of that. The Germans had all of that. What was distinctive, as you say, about America was actually... And the West more generally, what sets the West apart from other civilizations is the enlightenment, is the idea that all human beings have equal rights, is the idea that we have, you know, even a soul, the Kantian idea that you cannot, know, use power to control individuals, that the individual is sacrosanct. I mean, there's a deep Christian belief that all human beings are children of God. All these ideas what made the West distinctive. Every society practiced slavery, but it's only in the West that we came up with an anti slavery movement and ideology and eventually freed the slaves. Every major great power was imperial, but it's only the West that began to reflect on that imperialism and ask, well, you know, was this was this fair to the Native Americans who were after all also human beings, also children of God? Those kind of questions are what made the West unique. And I think that that goes directly... Leads directly to the point you make, which is so important. After '45, what The United States did was unprecedented in human history. That is it took its defeated foes and said, not only are we gonna welcome you back to the to the, you know, to the table as equal partners, as great nations. We are gonna help fund your reconstruction. We are gonna give you the money or loan you the money to make that happen. And as you said, these are... They're not trivial sums of money. This is something in the $200,000,000,000 range right now, the Marshall Plan. And there was much more.
00:23:43 · Fareed Zakaria
We opened up our markets to these countries because we wanted to create an ecosystem that was more stable. This was Franklin Roosevelt's dream. Having seen the collapse of of Versailles in World War I and how, you know, it it it resulted in the the forces that then produced another world war, he was like, we've gotta stop this. We've got to find a new way. And The United States did find a new way, which was been mutually beneficial to everybody. I hope we can get back there, but it gets to a central question, which is, are other nations so burned by the two Trump elections? One could be a fluke, but two, makes them think, look. Do we need to buy insurance? Okay. You guys come in. Some some nice democrat comes in. He starts saying all the right things just as Joe Biden did. But what happens if ten years from now or even just six years from now, we get another Trump like character? We get JD Vance. We get Don Junior. We need some protection. We need some insurance. And we are gonna... So I see this, for example, with Canada. Canada Canada made a fundamental decision decades ago on Brian Mulroney and and George Bush senior to bind The US and Canadian economies together, to almost create a North American economy. And the car industry, for example, is currently a North American car industry. The parts move 15 times across borders to to make the most efficient North American cars. The Canadians are thinking if if that dependence on America has proved to be a vulnerability because America will use it to squeeze us, to punish us, to bully us, we've gotta get some leverage back. And so he's making Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, is making deals with the European Union, with China, with India. Now I think he's gonna keep doing that even if even if a Democrat is elected in '28. India was going to wean itself off its dependence on Russian arms. But then watching what the way that Trump behaved towards India, but also the ways would behave towards Ukraine, I'm sure the Indians... I know the Indians are thinking, well, you know, we'll wean ourselves off the Russians a bit, but maybe slower than we plan to. And we'll diversify. We'll buy... The the big order they placed this year was actually for French fighter planes, not American. And there had been a hope that India would essentially trade its dependence. 80% of Indian weaponry comes from comes from Russia.