Iran war threatens a global recession, Finland’s Stubb warns – POLITICO

 Finland’s President Alexander Stubb says he believes his friends can cope with what he calls “tough love.” 

So one of Europe’s great optimists is not hiding his unusually bleak assessment of where his one-time golf partner Donald Trump’s presidency is taking the world. 

The Iran war, he said in an exclusive interview, risks triggering a “self-inflicted global recession” that could have more severe consequences for the economy than the coronavirus pandemic. And with Ukraine peace talks seeming indefinitely stalled, conflicts are now raging in Europe and the Middle East.