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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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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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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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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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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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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Tucker Carlson is taking an interesting turn. I’ve rejoiced at his turn against pro-war fundamentalism, but it’s always come packaged with a more sinister edge. In recent weeks, that edge has become really apparent, with his new closeness to open white supremacists. With today’s video, I dive into just one thing Tucker gets very wrong, World War II history, and explain how that may contribute to some of other right-wing mistakes…
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This Donald Trump thing has been going on for quite some time now, hasn’t it? Back in 2017 I did a survey of past times of turmoil in US history. My conclusion was that folks in Trump’s first administration were blowing things out of proportion. Do I still feel the same way today? Not so much. We’ve been in worse places on some metrics, but our situation today can no longer be explained away. Check out today’s video for my detailed analysis.
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We don’t hear much about Taiwan semiconductors anymore. This often happens in national security circles. The point is to make you scared, not to make any meaningful changes to the strategic vulnerability that is claimed to have been identified. Solving this problem would be counter-productive. It’s declining importance means I’ll probably never do a produced video talking about Taiwan chips, so I thought it made sense to throw together an unproduced version. I hope you find it useful.
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This one was interesting. I had an idea for a couple historical comparison videos in light of Trump’s second term and the assassination of Charlie Kirk. My typical practice is to then spend months or weeks developing them before publishing a finished product. But I have too many of those projects already. So I figured I should just push this one and next week’s videos out in unproduced form without too much introspection or overthinking. It’s not as produced as I might like, but the ideas are out there. What do you think?
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