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 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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Will the Iran MOU stand? Who knows. If it did it would be good for the US.
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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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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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What we did to Iraq is a tragedy. Let’s talk about it.
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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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In 1956, the Suez crisis showed that the British Empire was basically over. A lot of people are suggesting, both in a mournful and a gloating way, that Trump’s Iran fail may be something similar. They’re wrong. This is why.
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