How Turkey Lost Everything By Winning

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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

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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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Is Iran a Great Power? With Policy Tensor

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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Argentina Is A Fantasy

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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Nobody’s Winning In Ukraine

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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Zohran Mamdani Doesn’t Impress J.J. McCullough

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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