New Order with Afshin Rattansi will trace how India and its allies sit at the center of a transformation in world history. Power is moving, alliances are shifting, and the rules of trade, technology, and security are being rewritten. New Order is about diplomatic architecture: The networks of power, the flow of money, and the levers of influence that determine who gains and who loses in a world of tectonic transition.
The schizophrenic US foreign policy & death of the US-led world order – Prof. Charles Kupchan
On this episode of New Order, we speak to Prof. Charles Kupchan, who served as Barack Obama’s and Bill Clinton’s director of European affairs at the US National Security Council and is professor of international affairs at Georgetown University. He discusses why the old world is indeed dying, with the gradual death of the US-led liberal order accelerated by Donald Trump, the “schizophrenic” US foreign policy that oscillates between global domination and Western hemispheric domination, why Donald Trump started the war on Iran and fell into the same “black hole” as other US presidents in waging another fruitless war in the Middle East, whether a coherent strategic vision of a campaign against China is guiding Trump’s foreign policy, how the West’s political leaders have no solutions for their electorate’s problems, the ineffectiveness of Western sanctions against Iran and Russia, whether the world will allow the US to shape the emerging new order, and much more. Finally, New Order’s Zarah Khan puts questions from you the viewers to Afshin Rattansi. You can send your questions to @AfshinRattansi on X, and they may be answered on next week’s episode! And a question for you the viewers: Are secondary sanctions turning middle powers into frontline actors in great power rivalry?
Prof. Richard Sakwa: We are witnessing the twilight of US unipolarity and the political West
On this episode of New Order, we speak to Richard Sakwa, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Kent. He discusses the twilight of the political West and the end of the unipolar world, the 1914 levels of war fever in Europe against Russia as the Ukraine proxy war rages on, the declining impact of US and European sanctions against Russia, the evolution of the foreign policy of India and other Global South countries as US unipolarity declines, the increasing irrelevance of the United Nations in the new world order and why the world must double down on the UN, why this is the most difficult time in US-India relations in the last three decades, his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, the groupthink in Western Europe over Russia and the rise of new powers, and much more. Finally, New Order’s Zarah Khan asks questions from you the viewers to Afshin Rattansi. You can send in your questions to be answered to @AfshinRattansi on X to be answered on next week’s episode! And a question for you, the viewers: How does India and the Global South deal with the threat of Western Europe’s war fever against Russia?
Prof. Richard Wolff: The US war on Iran is a desperate attempt to stop imperial decline
On this episode of New Order, we speak to eminent US economist Richard Wolff. He discusses how Trump’s war on Iran is being paid for and why the cost is being pushed to the next generation, the untold truth about the deindustrialization of the United States perpetrated by American corporations and the resulting supply line vulnerability, how the US-Israeli war on Iran will rearrange the entire global economy, why Donald Trump’s presidency hinges on the support of the oligarch business class, the ballooning US war budget, how the global south should view US foreign policy, the slow decline of the power of the US dollar, and much more.
Finally, New Order’s Zarah Khan asks questions from you the viewers to Afshin Rattansi. You can send in your questions to @AfshinRattansi on X to be answered on next week’s episode!
And a question for you the viewers: If the US can’t raise taxes, and can’t borrow cheaply, how can it afford a long war?
War on Iran: Afshin Rattansi challenges Amb. John Bolton over his demand for regime change
On this episode of New Order, we speak to Ambassador John Bolton, former National Security Advisor to Donald Trump in his first administration. Afshin Rattansi challenges him on his desire for Trump to pursue regime change in Tehran, his assertion that the Iranian people are on the brink of a mass uprising over the economic crisis caused largely by US sanctions, US-Israeli bombing causing Iranians to ‘rally around the flag’, claims that Iran is ‘isolated’ internationally, his assertion that the US can break Iran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz and that Iran’s military capabilities are severely degraded, and much more. Finally, New Order’s Zarah Khan asks Afshin Rattansi questions submitted by our viewers. You can send in your questions to be answered to @AfshinRattansi on X to be answered on next week’s episode! And a question for you, the viewers: Will the US war on Iran rank as a bigger disaster than the neocon wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Ex-Pentagon advisor James Rickards warns of IMMINENT global economic crisis, mass starvation
On this episode of New Order, we speak to James Rickards, former Pentagon advisor and editor of Strategic Intelligence. He discusses the US-Iran closure of the Strait of Hormuz and why it is likely to remain closed for the foreseeable future, how the global economic crisis will start unfolding, including a risk of mass starvation, China’s vulnerability to the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz and why Donald Trump would want the Strait to remain shut, Trump’s plan to reinforce petrodollar hegemony through a duopoly of oil with Russia, India’s balancing act between Russia and the United States and why the dollar is likely to continue to dominate, why the new BRICS currency is gold, his forecast for the price of gold, and much more. Finally, New Order’s Zarah Khan puts questions from you, the viewers, to Afshin Rattansi. You can send in your questions to be answered to @AfshinRattansi on X to be answered on next week’s episode! And a question for you the viewers: Will the US war on Iran be the beginning of the end of the petrodollar?
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Iran won, US cannot stop the rise of BRICS & the Global South
On this episode of New Order, we speak to Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff at the US State Department. He discusses the bombing of the China-Iran railway and the wider US priority to confront Beijing, China’s global railway network strategy to ensure trade dominance, his belief that Iran has won against the US and Israel and whether Iran will pursue building nuclear weapons, why the negotiations in Pakistan and negotiations over Lebanon are just a cover for Donald Trump’s retreat, his advice for the Global South and BRICS as the US continues to make threats and launch wars to protect its hegemony, China’s strategy to supplant the dollar and become the dominant financial power, the future of Israel, and much more. Finally, New Order’s Zarah Khan asks questions from you the viewers to Afshin Rattansi. You can send in your questions to be answered to @AfshinRattansi on X to be answered on next week’s episode! And a question for you, the viewers: Should Iran pursue the same strategy as North Korea in developing a nuclear deterrent?