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S8 Ep408: Bill Roggio of the Long War Journal and Husain Haqqani discuss imminent potential US air strikes on Iran, expressing skepticism that air power alone can achieve regime change or lasting results without ground forces or sustained commitment.
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Bill Roggio of the Long War Journal and Husain Haqqani discuss imminent potential US air strikes on Iran, expressing skepticism that air power alone can achieve regime change or lasting results without ground forces or sustained commitment.
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S8 Ep407: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Conrad Black. Black argues Mark Carney&#39;s plan to bolster Canada&#39;s Arctic defenses is a political win, asserting sovereignty for the Western Alliance over the opening Northwest Passage.
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PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Conrad Black. Black argues Mark Carney&#39;s plan to bolster Canada&#39;s Arcticdefenses is a political win, asserting sovereignty for the Western Alliance over the opening Northwest Passage.
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S8 Ep407: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Edmund Fitton-Brown. Fitton-Brown explains Saudi Arabia denies airspace to U.S. forces to offer Iran a &quot;fig leaf,&quot; signaling neutrality to maintain a fragile ceasefire with the Houthis.
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PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Edmund Fitton-Brown. Fitton-Brown explains Saudi Arabia denies airspace to U.S. forces to offer Iran a &quot;fig leaf,&quot; signaling neutrality to maintain a fragile ceasefire with the Houthis.
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S8 Ep407: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Jim Holmes. Holmes contends China gains the most commercially from the Northwest Passage, cutting shipping times to Europe by 30% through its partnership with Russia.
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PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Jim Holmes. Holmes contends China gains the most commercially from the Northwest Passage, cutting shipping times to Europe by 30% through its partnership with Russia.
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S8 Ep407: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Fraser Howie. Howe argues Xi Jinping&#39;s push for the renminbi as a global reserve currency will fail unless China abandons strict capital controls preventing capital flight.
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PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Fraser Howie. Howe argues Xi Jinping&#39;s push for the renminbi as a global reserve currency will fail unless China abandons strict capital controls preventing capital flight.
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S8 Ep407: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Ahmed Sharawi. Sharawi warns the third ceasefire between the Syrian government and U.S.-allied Kurdish forces is fragile and likely to fail, risking renewed hostilities soon.
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PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Ahmed Sharawi. Sharawi warns the third ceasefire between the Syriangovernment and U.S.-allied Kurdish forces is fragile and likely to fail, risking renewed hostilities soon.
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S8 Ep407: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Joe Truzman. Truzman predicts the Gaza ceasefire&#39;s second phase will fail because Hamas refuses to disarm, creating an insurmountable obstacle despite the completion of hostage recovery.
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PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Joe Truzman. Truzman predicts the Gaza ceasefire&#39;s second phase will fail because Hamas refuses to disarm, creating an insurmountable obstacle despite the completion of hostage recovery.
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Gaius and Germanicus settle over wine to analyze the aftermath of World War II, citing Averell Harriman&#39;s 1945 fear that Soviet victory represented a barbarian invasion opening Europe to Asian influence and threatening Westerncivilization&#39;s foundations. Germanicus suggests a modern inversion has occurred whereby Europe now experiences reverse colonization by former imperial subjects from Africa...
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Gaius and Germanicus turn their debate to American migration patterns, with Gaius arguing that modern elites exploit immigrants as property for cheap labor and political votes, echoing historical patterns of indentured servitude that built colonial economies. Germanicus draws comparisons to Rome, noting that the empire successfully assimilated diverse races through genuine upward mobility and c...
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S8 Ep406: Gaius and Germanicus gather in freezing Londinium during the winter of 92 AD to discuss Paul Thomas Chamberlain&#39;s Scorched Earth, which reinterprets World War II not as a purely ideological conflict but as a racial struggle for colonial supremacy among wh
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Gaius and Germanicus gather in freezing Londinium during the winter of 92 AD to discuss Paul Thomas Chamberlain&#39;s Scorched Earth, which reinterprets World War II not as a purely ideological conflict but as a racial struggle for colonial supremacy among white Christian nations. Gaius observes that academic journals in the early twentieth century explicitly validated these racial hierarchies, len...
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S8 Ep405: Joe Pappalardo traces the post-service lives of Company F leaders: Scott builds railroads in Mexico while Brooks becomes a South Texas judge battling alcoholism, establishing the stoic, disciplined template defining the modern Texas Ranger identity and le
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Joe Pappalardo traces the post-service lives of Company F leaders: Scott builds railroads in Mexico while Brooksbecomes a South Texas judge battling alcoholism, establishing the stoic, disciplined template defining the modern Texas Ranger identity and legacy.

1904 TEXAS RANGERS
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S8 Ep405: Joe Pappalardo recounts Sergeant J.A. Brooks facing legal peril in Fort Smith after a shootout defending an Indian agent results in murder charges, tried before Hanging Judge Parker and imprisoned near outlaw Belle Starr before receiving a presidential pa
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Joe Pappalardo recounts Sergeant J.A. Brooks facing legal peril in Fort Smith after a shootout defending an Indianagent results in murder charges, tried before Hanging Judge Parker and imprisoned near outlaw Belle Starr before receiving a presidential pardon from Cleveland.
1885 WACO TEXAS RANGERS
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S8 Ep405: Joe Pappalardo profiles Captain Will Scott, a stoic tactician who utilized undercover operations and deliberate force, contextualizing the Rangers as agents of political change during 1886-87 enforcing barbed wire boundaries against open-range traditions 
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Joe Pappalardo profiles Captain Will Scott, a stoic tactician who utilized undercover operations and deliberate force, contextualizing the Rangers as agents of political change during 1886-87 enforcing barbed wire boundaries against open-range traditions amidst economic shifts and severe weather.
DALLAS 1920
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S8 Ep405: Joe Pappalardo details the 1887 shootout between Texas Ranger Company F and the Connor clan in Sabine County&#39;s dense pine forests, where skilled backwoodsmen fighting an ambiguous legal battle represented an existential threat requiring Rangers to impose 
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Joe Pappalardo details the 1887 shootout between Texas Ranger Company F and the Connor clan in Sabine County&#39;sdense pine forests, where skilled backwoodsmen fighting an ambiguous legal battle represented an existential threat requiring Rangers to impose modern governance.
1900 CAPTAIN BILL MACDONALD, TEXAS RANGER
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Jessica Pierce and Mark Bekoff discuss whether dogs will see themselves as apex predators or ecosystem participants, noting pack behavior may mirror wolves if hunting large prey while dogs retain their distinct genetic history, concluding that this experiment teaches humans to view dogs as individuals.

1900 ENGLISH SPRINGERS, HUNTING
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Jessica Pierce and Mark Bekoff explain that without humans, dogs will likely adopt communal parenting strategies and reduced reproductive cycles to maximize survival, noting dogs already possess latent social skills for conflict resolution with lifespans stabilizing around eight years like wild wolves.
1861 DUNDRUM HOUSE. LORD HAWARDEN AND SPRINGER
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Jessica Pierce and Mark Bekoff focus on physical evolution, predicting short-snouted dogs will disappear while longer snouts prevail for better breathing, smaller dogs may survive better due to lower caloric demands, and coat colors will adapt toward reddish camouflage hues.
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Jessica Pierce and Mark Bekoff discuss a thought experiment regarding dogs in a post-human world, suggesting dogs will not physically revert to wolves but will adopt wolf-like social structures and pack behaviors depending on available prey, viewing themselves as fluid ecosystem participants.
1828 ENGLISH SPRINGERS
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Guest: Dan Flores. Aristocratic &quot;safari&quot; hunters massacred wildlife for sport, while early conservation efforts by figures like Roosevelt often focused on preserving game populations specifically for future hunting.

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Guest: Dan Flores. Flores critiques 19th-century explorers, noting how Lewis and Clark needlessly slaughtered grizzlies and how Audubon, though later regretful, killed birds to capture their likenesses.

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Guest: Dan Flores. As capitalism commodified wildlife like beavers, naturalists like Thoreau lamented the loss, while Linnaeus&#39;s system helped classify species even as market forces decimated them.
1859 JJ AUDOBON. WILD TURKEY
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Guest: Dan Flores. European colonizers, shocked by America&#39;s abundance, introduced a &quot;herding culture&quot; mindset that demonized predators and enforced a philosophy of human exceptionalism regarding animal souls.

1838 COMMORANTS. AUDOBON
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Guest: Dan Flores. For 10,000 years, indigenous hunter-gatherers maintained ecological balance through low populations and spiritual kinship with animals, viewing species like Coyote and Raven as deities.

1908 ZOO
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1908
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1860 GRIZZLY BE HUNTER
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1885 SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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Guest: Danielle Clode. Clode details protecting homes from ember attacks, the critical &quot;stay or go&quot; decision during fire bans, and last-resort survival tactics involving woolen blankets in vehicles.

1952 QUEENSLAND
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1930 AUSTRALIA
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Guest: Danielle Clode. Clode discusses Captain Cook&#39;s early observations, the contrast between indigenous &quot;fire stick farming&quot; and settler clearing, and the history of massive wildfires like Black Thursday.

1907 ADELAIDE.SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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S8 Ep400: Guest: Jeremy Zakis. Zakis details the English cricket team&#39;s scandals, specifically how Harry Brook and teammates lied about a nightclub fight following their humiliating Ashes defeat.
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1885 CRICKET NSW
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Guest: Jeremy Zakis. Zakis reports on Australia&#39;s oppressive, humid heatwave reaching 122°F, which traps residents indoors and keeps a stubbornly stationary tropical depression from becoming a cyclone.
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S8 Ep399: Sean McMeekin explains how the Allies abandoned anti-communist forces like Mihailovic in Yugoslavia and Chiang Kai-shek in China, while Stalin armed Mao Zedong with Japanese weapons, concluding that massive US Lend-Lease aid enabled communism&#39;s expansion 
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Sean McMeekin explains how the Allies abandoned anti-communist forces like Mihailovic in Yugoslavia and Chiang Kai-shek in China, while Stalin armed Mao Zedong with Japanese weapons, concluding that massive US Lend-Leaseaid enabled communism&#39;s expansion into Europe and Asia.
1945
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S8 Ep398: Sean McMeekin describes how the Soviets utilized Lend-Lease to acquire industrial secrets and nuclear materials, often facilitated by Harry Hopkins whom McMeekin views as a devoted Soviet agent of influence, while Stalin delayed Operation Bagration to let
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Sean McMeekin describes how the Soviets utilized Lend-Lease to acquire industrial secrets and nuclear materials, often facilitated by Harry Hopkins whom McMeekin views as a devoted Soviet agent of influence, while Stalin delayed Operation Bagration to let Western Allies absorb German strength.
1945 RED ARMY
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S8 Ep398: Sean McMeekin argues FDR announced unconditional surrender at Casablanca to appease Stalin, highlighting the Allied cover-up of the Katyn Massacre where Stalin used his own crime to break relations with the Polish government-in-exile and consolidate contr
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Sean McMeekin argues FDR announced unconditional surrender at Casablanca to appease Stalin, highlighting the Allied cover-up of the Katyn Massacre where Stalin used his own crime to break relations with the Polish government-in-exile and consolidate control.
2943 TEHRAN
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Sean McMeekin describes how Stalin exploited Lend-Lease beyond military necessity, using the program to acquire industrial equipment, raw materials, and nuclear-related supplies while manipulating Western generosity to strengthen Soviet postwar capabilities and strategic position.

1941 ROSTOV
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Sean McMeekin challenges the myth of Stalin&#39;s nervous breakdown during the 1941 German invasion, arguing both sides were mobilizing for war and that becoming a victim created a public relations miracle facilitating Western aid while Stalin withheld intelligence about Japan from the US.
1939 WINTER WAR
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S8 Ep398: Sean McMeekin discusses Molotov&#39;s 1940 Berlin visit, noting Stalin&#39;s brazen demands for influence in Bulgaria and Turkey caused talks to collapse, prompting Hitler to plan Operation Barbarossa, while Roosevelt began lifting moral embargoes anticipating a 
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1931 STALIN AND BERIA
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Sean McMeekin details how Stalin replaced Litvinov with Molotov to signal realignment with Hitler, leading to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, arguing Stalin was an opportunist seeking territorial expansion in Poland, Romania, and the Baltics while Western powers failed to intervene.
1900 THE RUSSIA BEAR, &quot;RECKLESS DEFIANCE&quot; OF THE ENGLISH TOMMIES
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Sean McMeekin introduces Stalin as a bandit and intellectual who adopted Lenin&#39;s theory of revolutionary defeatism, explaining how Stalin built Soviet industry by exploiting Western technology and capital during the Depression, often funding this through looted artwork and espionage.
1881 GANGING THE STUDENT REVOLUTIONARIES
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1951
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