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How Turkey Lost Everything By Winning

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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 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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Nobody’s Winning In Ukraine

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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Zohran Mamdani Doesn’t Impress J.J. McCullough

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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Is Trump Bringing Us Back To the 1930s?

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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Trump Won’t Make Peace With Russia

Trump won’t make peace with Russia. Simply put, he can’t. Too many of his donors, and too many of his campaign promises are riding on his amping up US oil and gas production. He can’t keep that production up if he crashes prices, and that’s what would be necessary to get peace with Russia. I got annoyed enough at these simple facts being left out of all the coverage over the past week that I went ahead and made an unproduced video on the topic.

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Why Israel Is Washington, DC’s Best Friend I Israel 1

I could see a lot of people not liking what I did with this video. It’s pretty likely that I’ll have more to say about Israel and the horrors it’s inflicting on its neighbors in the coming months. But before I dive into that, it’s important to understand why Israel is allowed, or even encouraged to be the worst version of itself possible. There are a lot of weird conspiratorial, antisemitic theories out there, that serve to exonerate Washington, DC. It’s not a Jewish plot though. It’s a very clear, very obvious strategy executed by our government. Israel may be uglier, but it’s not that different from what we’re doing in Ukraine and Taiwan. Hell, even Biden makes the connection, as I’ve pointed out in earlier videos. I think most serious geopolitics people, which is how I see my audience, acknowledge that Israel is up to something horrible. What I suspect some in the audience may resent, is my suggestion that the cause of Taiwan and Ukraine may be tainted in similar ways.

Let me know!

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How Biden Failed To Stop Trump 2024

Well, I was wrong, and Trump won. Joe Biden is the man most responsible for this catastrophe. It may seem a little self-indulgent, but with today’s video I’m going back to a list of suggestions I made for Biden in early 2021. Was I right about what would help stop Trump? Would it have helped if Biden had followed my suggestions? I don’t know. I won’t be charging anyone for this public working out of my own thoughts & feelings. I hope it’s watchable.

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US Empire’s Monstrous Fraud | MIC 33

I am pretty angry. All of the Middle East’s recent deaths, the 1,400 Israelis, and the 11,000 Palestinians, were preventable. It probably won’t surprise anybody much that I think it all ties back to the US Military Industrial Complex. There’s plenty of horror to go around this month, but one aspect that I think people are missing, is the way that Israel and Palestine’s catastrophe has allowed the MIC to conquer another US president. Todays’ video covers Joe Biden’s fall, as well as most of the rest of the history of the 21st century. Let me know what you think…

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Peter Zeihan Doesn’t Understand America…

Geopolitics Entrepreneur Peter Zeihan has been one of the most requested topics on this channel for the past couple years. I’ve put together a couple less formal videos dealing with his ideas, but this is the first produced effort. I decided I had to do it after Zeihan’s Joe Rogan appearance at the beginning of this year. A very amateurish, years old, clip critiquing Zeihan quickly became one of my channel’s most viewed videos. Here’s hoping this much more carefully crafted video does well!

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