Iran negotiations have begun in Switzerland and no one rolled out a welcome mat for JD Vance. The Iran delegation and Qatari negotiators have been publicly snubbing him even as he tries to smooth things over with slick diplomacy. Meanwhile, Vance is quite intent on passing the whole debacle off on Benjamin Netanyahu and America’s Israeli allies.

In this live conversation, military expert Andrew Fox and A Paratrooper And A Yogi Walk Into A Bar cohost, Shana Meyerson, discuss JD Vance’s statements and positions and what these Iran talks will honestly mean for the world economy in the short run.

Andrew Fox is a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society and cohost of The Brink Podcast. He served for 16 years in the British Army, leaving the Parachute Regiment with the rank of Major. He completed 3 tours in Afghanistan including one att ...