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.
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.
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…
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!
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.
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.
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?
China is the biggest winner from the Iran war. But the US Deep State is a close second. You didn’t think I’d make it through a whole Iran war without making an MIC video did you?
I can’t claim to understand the online right. Rather than just assume that that’s because they are entirely incoherent, I invited a sort of expert in the field, PF Jung, on to the channel to explain it.
Going forward, I have decided to cross post the podcasts to the main YouTube channel directly. They get more views that way, and they keep the YouTube channel a little more active. Let me know if you have any thoughts…