The everything shock
From the price of food to the AI industry, the Iran war will transform the world as we know it
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Bruno Maçães
Bruno Maçães is a New Statesman foreign correspondent and was the Portuguese Europe minister from 2013 to 2015. He is also the author of “Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis”.
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