Moscow; Iran; Canada; Data Centers; Bessent; Amargi ; Sit Awareness; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show

Live August 25, 2026  | Yaron Brook Show
(Season 12, Episode 144)
Moscow; Iran; Canada; Data Centers; Bessent; Amargi ; Sit Awareness; Achievement | Yaron Brook Show

Why did America's top spy make a secret four-hour trip to Moscow — and is Putin about to test NATO while Trump's own Treasury Secretary admits he's bluffing on Iran?

America's CIA Director just made an unannounced trip to Moscow. Within hours, Yaron Brook is connecting it to a chilling possibility: Putin may be gearing up to test NATO on the ground, not just in rhetoric. Then he turns to Treasury Secretary Bessent, who just admitted on camera that the U.S. won't actually impose the Iran sanctions it announced — because Washington doesn't want to "blow up the global financial system." Add a real trade war with Canada started by a president who, in Yaron's words, "has the economics understanding of a five-year-old," a Texas AG who wants to make data centers criminally liable for what kids type into chatbots, and a 24-year-old hedge fund manager who turned $45 billion into ash through leverage — and you've got one of the most consequential news days of the year.

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Timestamps:
0:00 — Is Trump's foreign policy actually worse than everyone feared?
~3:30 — Why did the CIA Director secretly fly to Moscow for four hours — is Putin testing NATO next?
~15:00 — Bessent admits the quiet part out loud: are Iran sanctions just an empty threat?
32:46 — Trump says the U.S. "lost" $60 billion to Canada — but where exactly did that money go?
35:36 — Is a trade deficit ever actually a loss?
52:32 — Should data centers be criminally liable for what a kid types into a chatbot?
58:05 — Is Bessent the least serious man in the Trump administration?
1:18:49 — Should the U.S. just cancel the national debt like ancient Sumer did?
1:21:50 — Is taxing the rich harder ever going to fix the deficit?
1:27:54 — How did a 24-year-old turn a hedge fund into $45 billion — and then torch it in weeks?
1:41:59 — What does this collapse prove about the danger of leverage?
1:47:00 — Remembering Dolly Parton and the quiet global win of polio eradication.

#Iran #Russia #NATO #Canada #TariffWars #DataCenters #ArtificialIntelligence #NationalDebt #Capitalism #ForeignPolicy #Ukraine #FederalReserve #FreeMarkets #AynRand #Objectivism 

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