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Podcast: The President’s Inbox
Episode: Why Allies Aren’t Following on Iran, With Kristi Govella and Constanze Stelzenmüller
Description: We discuss:
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Why U.S. allies are refusing to join the Iran war, and what that signals about weakening alliance cohesion and growing strategic independence.
How the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20% of global oil flows, is already reshaping the global economy and raising the stakes for every U.S. partner.Â
Europe’s balancing act, publicly rejecting the war while quietly enabling U.S. operations through military bases.
Japan’s pragmatic hedging, supporting the U.S. diplomatically while using constitutional limits to avoid direct military involvement.Â
The cascading global risks of the conflic...