Tag Archives: Iran

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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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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UAE & Mali Militarism is Failing

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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Is Saudi Arabia Or The UAE More Doomed?

You’d think that war against a common enemy would bring Saudi Arabia and the UAE closer together, but in fact it’s the opposite. They are having a falling out that’s putting them both in danger. Today’s video asks, who’s more doomed?

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