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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Will the Iran MOU stand? Who knows. If it did it would be good for the US.
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In this week’s episode, Policy Tensor joins us to talk about great power systems, and whether or not Iran qualifies as a great power. The associated substack highlights a neglected part of China-US news. Not good news.
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Javier Milei has lasted longer than I thought he would. I still think Argentina is in trouble. This episode also uses the news that Peter Thiel is spending time down there to laugh at oligarchs who think they can escape the United States. I wrote a bit more about our trapped oligarchs in today’s substack.
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Ukraine might be doing better than it was last year. But last year was pretty catastrophic. It’s time to push peace, not more war. Today’s conversation with Ruairi also inspired a substack post on the Chechen wars of the 1990s, which you can find here…
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I really enjoyed this conversation with J.J. I think we transition quite naturally from New York City politics, to national politics to international politics, and draw some useful connections along the way. I hope you enjoy it!
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The Strait of Hormuz is a nuclear option for Iran. If we let them keep it they don’t need a bomb to protect themselves from Israeli and US savagery.
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What we did to Iraq is a tragedy. Let’s talk about it.
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They learned it from watching us! Mali and the UAE, in very different ways, have committed heavily to US-style militarism over the past decade or so. It hasn’t worked out any better for them than it has for us. In fact, it’s kind of catastrophic.
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Everybody hates taxes. But they are really important. The fact that folks in the US are reacting to government by insanely corrupt tax cutters by advocating to cuts to their own taxes is a real problem.
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