I spent a little time off this summer, and spent a lot of time thinking about where the US is as a country in year ten of the Trump era. The biggest problem is that thanks to Trump, and his predecessors, the US military is completely out of control. This article is a doozy, but I think it explains most of where we are, a lot more convincingly and comprehensively than anything else I’ve seen.
Japan is The US’s Most Important Ally
The Japan-US relationship is tremendously undervalued. The recent Yen bailout inspired Ruairi and I to attempt to give Japan it’s due.
I also published a substack making the case for Japan being the US’s greatest ally.
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200th episode Q & A special
It’s been almost 200 episodes! And I was on vacation last week. So it’s time for a Q&A episode. We start off with a discussion of the recent Michigan election.
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Spain Is Doing Surprisingly Well
Spain is doing surprisingly well. A week after we recorded the episode above, Morocco’s swamping of one of Spain’s African enclaves with migrants made the news. That didn’t make the episode, but I wrote a substack about it.
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Marco Rubio 2028 Is A Bad Joke
Marco Rubio Probably isn’t silly enough to think he’ll be the next president. Wish we could say the same for the rest of the US establishment.
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CNN & The US Culture of Death
Jake Tapper gets offended if you don’t celebrate the assassination that started our insane Iran war. That’s pretty weird. We decided to look into that for today’s video.
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How Turkey Lost Everything By Winning
Turkey is in a very depressing place. It’s riding high geopolitically, it’s won in Syria, and the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran make President Erdoğan
indispensable to his NATO allies in the US and Europe. But in the process it has lost its democracy and its economy is in shambles. These processes are deeply interrelated. Today’s podcast dives into those connections, which most avoid.
We’ve also got a new substack up, on the topic of my optimism about Turkey and whether or not it’s sustainable.
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How Israel Helps To Destroy Sudan
The horrors in Sudan do not excuse Israel’s crimes. In fact, Sudan is, in part, another crime Israel is helping to commit. Today’s video is accompanied by a substack pointing out how the UAE has no discernible goals. It’s just fomenting chaos for the sake of chaos.
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The Fall of The UK
The United Kingdom has run through another Prime Minister. From Epstein to a serious lack of charisma, Keir Starmer had a lot of downsides, but was success ever really possible? Or is the UK just too doomed to function? We cover that in today’s video, and today’s substack…
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The Iran MOU Would Be Great for the US
Will the Iran MOU stand? Who knows. If it did it would be good for the US.
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