Adam Tooze on the War on Iran | Ones and Tooze Ep. 232

Hi and welcome to Ones and Twos FP's economics podcast . Every week we take a couple data points, use them to try to explain the world . I'm Cameron Abati, FP's deputy editor with you in Berlin, Germany . Joining us as always is FP's economics columnist and Columbia University professor Adam Tus with us in New York . Hi Adam. . Hi Cam . So, uh, one big topic for you all this week, that is the war in Iran . We will get to that in just a second . But first, just a bit of news on our end, and that is that we will be doing another live show in New York . We've done this a couple of times . We've done it at a venue called The Caveat in downtown Manhattan . We're doing it again in the month of April, April 17th to be exact . Um, uh, it will be 9:30, one of, uh, uh, the late shows that we've done before . It's always a lot of fun . And the tickets are now officially available for purchase . You can find the, uh, link to those tickets in the show notes of this episode. We have a lot of fun doing these . I think the audiences have fun, too . So, check it out. A . And they tend to go pretty quick in the past . So, if you're interested, you might want to click on that link soon . But as I mentioned, we have the one big topic and the data point there is 2,000 . That is the number of targets in Iran approximately that have been hit by the United States and Israeli militaries since their war against Iran began on February 28th . Iran has retaliated itself with hundreds of ballistic missiles approximately between 500 and 600 fired off by Iran . That's been joined by hundreds if not thousands of drones that have been launched as well. It all amounts to a major combat operation as the United States military has described threatened to do and then carried out or is this more to do with the direct attacks on oil infrastructure in the Gulf that that we've mentioned Iran has been has been conducting