New Order with Afshin Rattansi

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Hussein Askary, Vice Chairman of the Belt & Road Institute. He discusses the significance of the targeting of Iran’s Chabahar Port in the US-Israeli war against the country, the decline of the US being the main reason for so many wars and major instability in the world, why the war on Iran is a US war against BRICS, the Gulf States’ changing calculations in the new multipolar world, why the US’ bases in the Middle East are obsolete and a source of insecurity, the collapse of the Western financial system in both power and influence, the real motive of the US’ wars being stopping the integration of Eurasia, 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!

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Peter Schiff, Economist and Host of The Peter Schiff Show podcast. He discusses Donald Trump’s public chastising of him for pointing out prices in the US were not falling and his belief that the Trump Administration got him banned from Fox News, the reason for the recent major decline in gold prices and why gold is likely to continue rising, the real source of US inflation and why it isn’t the rising energy costs, why de-dollarisation by BRICS nations will mean the remonetisation of gold, Trump’s u-turn on charging 20% tolls on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz, his explanation for the economic rise of China, why other nations will follow Russia’s example of de-dollarisation, why BRICS nations must reduce exposure to US markets, 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!

On this episode of New Order, we speak to former Economic Hitman John Perkins, author of ‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man’ and ‘Art of the Steal: Trump and the Economic Hit Man Presidency’. He discusses how Donald Trump has laid the ‘economic hitman’ system out in the open with his brazen corruption, how Trump has become the ‘jackal’ with his kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela and the disaster that has been his war on Iran, how Prime Minister Narendra Modi views India’s position in the multipolar world, the ‘4 pillars’ of Trump’s economic hit man Presidency and how India has avoided the debt pillar, how the US’ mistakes around the world have fuelled the rise of the power of China globally, why de-dollarisation is inevitable as the US hegemonic power wanes and the threat of increased violence from the US empire, 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: What should replace the dollar as the world’s most trusted currency, if anything?

On this episode of New Order, we speak to the Former Chief of India’s Research & Analysis Wing Vikram Sood. He discusses why Prime Minister Narendra Modi isn’t personally attending the funeral of Ayatollah Khamenei, Trump’s potential pivot to Ukraine after the war on Iran and whether India is in a better position to deal with threats from the Trump Administration, why Russia, China and India working together could be a formidable power bloc and send a powerful message to the world, the internal and external pressures India faces, the weaponisation of human rights by the West and the importance of soft power for India such as film and culture, the importance of the Chabahar Port in Iran for India’s national security, 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!

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Amb. Kanwal Sibal, former Ambassador of India to Russia, France, Egypt and Turkey, and Former Foreign Secretary of India. He discusses the dropping of ‘Indo’ from the US’ Indo-Pacific Command and what this signals for US-India relations, India’s desire to not be pulled into any US-China confrontation over Taiwan, the US’ killing of 3 Indian sailors in the Strait of Hormuz and the lack of any apology from the US, why QUAD is now dying a slow death, India’s view of the future of the North-South Corridor and whether the corridor was deliberately targeted during the US-Israeli war on Iran, how India will deal with increased tariffs and sanctions threats as the Trump Administration pivots back to the NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine, why global south countries such as India and Brazil were invited to the G7 Summit, and much more. 

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Dr. Andrey Kortunov, Political Analyst at the Valdai International Discussion Club. He discusses the state of India-Russia relations and India’s power in the world today, the RELOS Agreement and why the US failed to break away India from Russia, the limits of US power proven by the war on Iran, whether the US can continue hampering Russia’s oil exports by cancelling waivers, why India will define the future of the QUAD, the importance of the upcoming BRICS Summit in New Delhi and why it is time to strengthen its institutions, the state of Russia’s campaign in the proxy war against NATO in Ukraine, his prediction for when the war will end, and much more. 

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 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 US’ ‘schizophrenic’ foreign policy that oscillates between US 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. 

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 India’s and other global south countries’ foreign policy 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 3 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. 

On this episode of New Order, we speak to one of the US’ most preeminent economists Prof. 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 deindustrialisation 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 oligarch business class, the US’ ballooning war budget, how the global south should view the US’ foreign policy, the slow decline of the power of the US dollar, and much more. 

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 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 rank as a bigger disaster than the neocon wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?