2026-03-19
24 分钟Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Democratic institutions have been taking a beating in Turkey.
At the same time, and perhaps as a distraction, Turkey has been making itself important on the world stage.
All that bodes ill for the opposition politician at the middle of a massive criminal trial.
And we do try to paint a nuanced picture for you
when it comes to the narrative of the bots are coming for us all.
But delivery bots, well, they're already here.
Weird thing about them, though, Americans in particular just really hate them.
First up, though.
The back and forth of the war in Iran continues.
Overnight, Israel hit South Pars, the world's largest natural gas field, in the middle of the Persian Gulf.
Iran launched its own attacks, causing serious damage to a natural gas facility in Qatar
that accounts for about a fifth of global gas.
Saudi Arabia said it intercepted missiles aimed at a gas facility there,
which makes Donald Trump's recent assertion that the war was, um, very complete pretty much, make even less sense.
He threatened to massively blow up that South Par's gas field if Iran struck Qatar again.
Maybe so.
What also seems probable is that this war will massively blow up his presidency.