Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
On a special ask-me-anything episode, regular host Ravi Agrawal took stock of a world at war. What does the Iran conflict mean for the global economy or traditional alliances? More than a year into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, how are world leaders navigating his leadership? And what of the U.S.-China relationship?
FP Live’s executive producer, Dana Sherne, turned the tables on Agrawal, taking questions from FP subscribers and viewers alike.
Watch the interview at ForeignPolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/live/ask-me-anything-trump-iran-war
0:00 Intro
1:16 The White House’s messaging
4:44 Impacts of the Iran war
9:59 Who are the winners?
13:39 The Trump-Xi meeting
18:30 India’s perspective
25:34 Europe’s role
30:00 UAE leaves OPEC
32:33 The future of the Middle East
37:06 Can we return to a rules-based order?
On the go? Listen to FP Live as a podcast at link.chtbl.com/foreignpolicylivepodcast or wherever you get your podcasts.
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On a special ask-me-anything episode, regular host Ravi Agrawal took stock of a world at war. What does the Iran conflict mean for the global economy or traditional alliances? More than a year into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, how are world leaders navigating his leadership? And what of the U.S.-China relationship?
FP Live’s executive producer, Dana Sherne, turned the tables on Agrawal, taking questions from FP subscribers and viewers alike.
Watch the interview at ForeignPolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/live/ask-me-anything-trump-iran-war
0:00 Intro
1:16 The White House’s messaging
4:44 Impacts of the Iran war
9:59 Who are the winners?
13:39 The Trump-Xi meeting
18:30 India’s perspective
25:34 Europe’s role
30:00 UAE leaves OPEC
32:33 The future of the Middle East
37:06 Can we return to a rules-based order?
On the go? Listen to FP Live as a podcast at link.chtbl.com/foreignpolicylivepodcast or wherever you get your podcasts.
FP Live is Foreign Policy's forum for live journalism that brings leading foreign-policy experts and thinkers together to analyze the world's biggest events. Visit foreignpolicy.com/live for the full conversation and more live journalism from Foreign Policy.
Subscribe to Foreign Policy's Youtube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UC1x_EgZtYkAzVavuONBrLZQ?sub_confirmation=1
Visit foreignpolicy.com to read the latest global news and analysis from FP.
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