S8 Ep506: Morris Tan details the jailing of South Korea's ex-president, alleging election fraud by the current administration and a shift toward alignment with North Korea's regime. 11.
S8 Ep506: General Blaine Holt analyzes China's J-35, noting it uses stolen F-35 designs but suffers from engine unreliability and systemic corruption within Chinese military procurement systems. 10.
S8 Ep506: Jonathan Sayeh describes growing internal Iranian dissent, where students favor a pre-1979 Persian identity and the Crown Prince over the current "occupying" Islamic Republic of Iran. 9.
S8 Ep505: Bill Roggio and John Hardie analyze the conflict as it enters its fifth year, with negotiations stalled and Putin maintaining maximalist demands, while assessing Russian casualty rates ...
S8 Ep505: Bill Roggio and John Hardie reflect on four years of war in Ukraine, examining initial intelligence failures regarding Russian capabilities and the subsequent shift toward defensive, dron...
S8 Ep505: Malcolm Hoenlein and Thaddius McCotter assess the US withdrawal from Syria, leaving minority groups vulnerable while ISIS resurges, while also covering Azerbaijan's regional influence and...
S8 Ep505: Malcolm Hoenlein and Thaddius McCotter report on massive casualties following Iranian protests and the buildup of US forces, discussing potential regime change and regional mobilization o...
S8 Ep505: Ernesto Araújo and Alejandro Peña Esclusa explore Cuba's severe oil crisis and potential democratic transitions as Venezuelan support collapses and Lula da Silva seeks cooperation with th...
S8 Ep505: Following El Mencho's death, Ernesto Araújo and Alejandro Peña Esclusa discuss the impact on Brazil and Venezuela, highlighting the Trump administration's aggressive strategy to dismantle...
S8 Ep505: John Batchelor and Bill Roggio examine the US fleet near Iran, questioning the effectiveness of air power alone against ideologically committed regimes like the Houthis. 2.
S8 Ep505: Cartel leader El Mencho of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel is killed in a military raid, triggering retaliatory violence across Mexico as Bill Roggio analyzes the limits of counterterro...
S8 Ep504: Preview for later today: David Daoud of the FDD joins us to report that the IDF is deploying silent quadcopters along the Israel-Lebanon border to drop stun grenades and issue warnings, t...
S8 Ep504: Preview for later today. Edmund Fitton Brown and Bill Roggio of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies report that while not fully defeated, Houthi forces were prevented from massing t...
S8 Ep504: Preview for later today. John Hardie and Bill Roggio of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies explain Vladimir Putin remains committed to making Ukraine a vassal state, rejecting land...
S8 Ep504: Preview for later today. Ahmad Sharawi and Bill Roggio analyze Syria facing two paths: becoming a stabilized regional power or descending into worse conflict than the civil war, as curren...
S8 Ep503: General Blaine Holt, United States Air Force retired, explains that despite stealing F-35 plans, China struggles with the J-35 due to systemic corruption, with patronage and lack of merit...
S8 Ep503: Alejandro Peña Esclusa of the Venezuelan opposition reports that following high-level US visits, Cuban assets began exiting Venezuela, with Delcy Rodriguez reportedly leading a directed g...
S8 Ep502: Michael Vlahos as Germanicus and Gaius lament the decline of Latin fluency that once united historical elites from seventeenth-century diplomats to America's Founders, warning that soci...
S8 Ep502: Michael Vlahos as Germanicus compares Emperor Nero's struggles with the Roman Senate to President Trump's friction with the American judiciary, characterizing Trump's theatrical style as ...
S8 Ep502: Michael Vlahos as Germanicus and Gaius use the legendary Spartan-Argos Battle of the Champions to frame the twenty-first-century standoff between America and Iran, arguing that American r...
S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot concludes with the Zimmerman Telegram sealing America's entry into WWI, followed by the eventual deaths of Roosevelt and Wilson and Jane Addams's later Nobel Peace Pri...
S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot recounts Wilson's narrow victory and his proposal of peace without victory, examining the president's segregationist views and Jane Addams's persistent efforts toward interna...
S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot covers Charles Evans Hughes winning the Republican nomination, forcing Roosevelt to abandon Progressives, while suffrage leaders pressure candidates to support a federal amen...
S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot explains how following the Sussex sinking, Wilson faces pressure to sever German ties, as international ambassadors clash and German leaders grow increasingly distrustful of ...
S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot discusses Roosevelt campaigning for military preparedness for Republican favor, while Wilson embarks on a speaking tour to convince the skeptical Midwest of necessary nationa...
S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot describes the sinking of the Lusitania forcing Wilson to navigate war demands, leading to William Jennings Bryan's resignation and the rise of Edith Galt's significant influe...
S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot recounts Jane Addams establishing the Women's Peace Party and traveling through 1915 Europe, attempting shuttle diplomacy while facing intense domestic criticism for her bold...
S8 Ep501: Neil Lanctot introduces Jane Addams, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson in 1912, examining their distinct intellectual backgrounds and competing visions for America's reformist future...
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin explores the politicized investigation into COVID-19's origins at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and characterizes the US-China confrontation as a long-term generational st...
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin details the 2020 trade deal signing just as Matthew Pottinger attempted to warn a distracted White House about the emerging COVID-19 threat in Wuhan. 7
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin explains how the CCP exploits academic integration through the Thousand Talents Plan and how Wall Street continues to resist decoupling despite national security risks. 6
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin examines whether the US-China rivalry is a new Cold War and how the CCP enforces its political agenda on American companies like the NBA through exported censorship. 5
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin discusses the 301 report on intellectual property theft, the shift toward an Indo-Pacific strategy, and the chaotic arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in 2018. 4
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin reveals the Bingo Club, a secret group tracking Chinese influence in American society, and discusses allegations regarding elite corruption and the CCP's United Front operation...
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin describes the conflict between Trump's Wall Street advisors seeking trade deals and hardliners pushing for a trade war during the early 2017 Mar-a-Lago summit with Xi Jinping. 2
S8 Ep500: Josh Rogin explains how Trump's 2016 victory upended the Obama administration's optimistic China policy, leading to immediate diplomatic confusion regarding Taiwan and China's territorial...
S8 Ep499: Colonel Grant Newsham discusses Document 9, which targets Western ideas for destruction, alongside China's massive military buildup and the devastating political consequences of a potenti...
S8 Ep499: Colonel Grant Newsham explores why economic intertwining will not prevent war, noting China's willingness to endure domestic hardship for national rejuvenation and the failure of Western ...
S8 Ep499: Colonel Grant Newsham explains Xi Jinping's psychological warfare tactics and mal-marketing strategies designed to make Americans dependent while China telegraphs military expansion thro...
S8 Ep499: Colonel Grant Newsham describes how China attacked Baltimore through economic subversion and fentanyl, detailing US policy failures that welcomed China into the WTO despite missed require...
S8 Ep499: Jonathan Pelson proposes using Open RAN and Western strengths in cloud technology and software to break Huawei's dominance through permissionless innovation and diverse ecosystems challen...
S8 Ep499: onathan Pelson details Huawei's aggressive wolf culture and the alarming discovery of its equipment surrounding US nuclear missile bases, highlighting a long-ignored national security thr...
S8 Ep499: onathan Pelson reveals Huawei's links to Chinese state security, instances of stolen Lucent source code, and how the company leveraged low prices to penetrate European networks and critic...
S8 Ep499: Jonathan Pelson recounts the evolution of Chinese telecommunications since 1980, AT&T's failure to predict the wireless market, and the early opportunistic founding of Huawei that exploit...
S8 Ep498: Jeremy Zakis reports irregular weather is driving venomous snakes into unusual residential locations, with a Victorian woman startled by a copperhead wrapping around her leg while Queensl...
S8 Ep497: Jeremy Zakis describes Dallas, an eleven-year-old dog, patrolling to protect his property from aggressive cockatoos that previously dismantled a neighbor's roof, with a gang of up to seve...
S8 Ep497: Jeremy Zakis reports irregular weather is driving venomous snakes into unusual residential locations, with a Victorian woman startled by a copperhead wrapping around her leg while Queensl...
S8 Ep497: Jeremy Zakis notes the Australian T20 cricket team was eliminated early from their tournament following a catastrophic loss to Zimbabwe and a rained-out match, observing that T20 has evol...
S8 Ep496: 4. Stevenson-Yang 4: Post-Pandemic Deflation and the Surveillance State. Severe COVID-19 lockdowns shattered public trust, leaving China facing local government debt crises and deflation ...
S8 Ep495: 3. Stevenson-Yang 3: Ghost Cities and the Infrastructure Credit Boom. Massive cash injections fueled construction of empty "ghost cities" and emulated Western landmarks, leading to a monu...
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