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The conflict in Iran has begun to impact the global energy market. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss rising oil prices, potential shortages, and more.
As the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran continues, oil shortages will likely result in rising prices, Steve Inskeep, the host of NPR’s Morning Edition, explained last night. Americans tend to “support their country in times of urgency and war, and I’m sure that Americans would put up with a degree of sacrifice,” Inskeep continued. “But nobody has asked them to do so.” The president “has yet to address the nation in a formal way,” Inskeep argued—and, as a result, “the public is being asked to pay a higher and higher price, and they were not given a reason” for why the U.S. is at war.
Joining guest moderator Vivian Salama, a staff writer at The Atlantic, to discuss this and more: Inskeep; Nancy A. Youseff, a staff writer at The Atlantic; Mark Mazzetti, a Washington correspondent at The New York Times; and Felicia Schwartz, a diplomatic correspondent for Politico.
Watch the full episode here.
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