#056 - Firas Modad - How Trump Is Reshaping the World
Mr Obnoxious
Peter McCormack
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
Firas Modad is a political analyst and geopolitical strategist, specializing in the intersection of power, governance, and societal change. His work explores how oligarchs, elites, and state institutions shape policy, influence public perception, and manipulate global narratives.
In this interview, we explore the real power behind governments, the rise of populist uprisings, and why Western democracy may be failing. Modad explains how oligarchs exert control over elected officials, how free speech is being systematically dismantled, and why welfare policies can often corrupt rather than support society. We also dive into Trump’s political genius, Putin’s grip on Russia, and the collapse of Western values, offering a raw and unfiltered discussion on the forces reshaping the world today.
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| 0:00.0 | If you allow people to be on benefits indefinitely, you actually end up corrupting them. |
| 0:04.4 | And it is in fact harmful to allow people to keep on functioning in society without giving them responsibility. |
| 0:11.4 | Whereas if you force people to work, because there's no other alternative, they prosper. |
| 0:16.8 | I don't think you should allow people to simply exist in society without work. I don't think that gives them dignity. I don't think you should allow people to simply exist in society without work. |
| 0:22.6 | I don't think that gives them dignity. |
| 0:24.6 | I don't think that gives them health. |
| 0:27.6 | I don't think that's good for them. |
| 0:29.6 | I don't think it's good for us as a society. |
| 0:31.6 | Whereas if you say, look, you're going to have to work a few hours every day in order to earn your keep, |
| 0:36.6 | you impose responsibility on people instead of infantilizing them. |
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