I can’t say it’s surprising, but it needs to be said: Iran is now a forever war. Six months in we cover recent developments, and the sad, under acknowledged fact that there is no solution on the horizon.
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The Rise of Japan was an epic story, but the Japanese military’s victories sowed the seeds of its destruction. In today’s episode we revisit Japan’s wars around the turn of the 20th century, and the way that winning wasn’t really winning.
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The Japan-US relationship is tremendously undervalued. The recent Yen bailout inspired Ruairi and I to attempt to give Japan it’s due.
I also published a substack making the case for Japan being the US’s greatest ally.
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It’s been almost 200 episodes! And I was on vacation last week. So it’s time for a Q&A episode. We start off with a discussion of the recent Michigan election.
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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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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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Will the Iran MOU stand? Who knows. If it did it would be good for the US.
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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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