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US Strategic Incoherence and the Iran War

Views of the Iran crisis vary from the perspectives of U.S. allies in Asia, Central Asia’s oil exporters, and South Asia’s perpetual foes, India and Pakistan.

The U.S.-Iran ceasefire is on the cusp of ending, negotiations appear to have stalled, and across Asia, governments and publics alike are watching and wary — what will U.S. strategic incoherence yield next? Today on The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast, hosts Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) and Katie Putz (@LadyPutz) take stock of the current state of affairs, the view of the Iran crisis from the perspectives of U.S. allies in Asia, Central Asia’s oil exporters, and South Asia’s perpetual foes, India and Pakistan.

You can subscribe to The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify; and watch the episode on YouTube.

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The U.S.-Iran ceasefire is on the cusp of ending, negotiations appear to have stalled, and across Asia, governments and publics alike are watching and wary — what will U.S. strategic incoherence yield next? Today on The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast, hosts Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) and Katie Putz (@LadyPutz) take stock of the current state of affairs, the view of the Iran crisis from the perspectives of U.S. allies in Asia, Central Asia’s oil exporters, and South Asia’s perpetual foes, India and Pakistan.

You can subscribe to The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify; and watch the episode on YouTube.

Ankit Panda is editor-at-large at The Diplomat and the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Follow him on Twitter.

Catherine Putz is managing editor of The Diplomat.

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