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Geopolitics Decanted with Dmitri Alperovitch — 80 episodes

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1

How Russia Could Beat NATO, War of Attrition over Taiwan, and How Ukraine Turned the Tide

2

How to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz

3

What Happens if the Supreme Court Kills Trump’s Tariffs?

4

Why The China Trade Truce Is Unlikely to Last

5

Keeping Russian Economy Afloat: Kremlin's Economic High Wire Act

6

Why Drones Can’t Replace Traditional Firepower

7

Why America's Nuclear Deterrence Strategy Needs to Change

8

Assessing the Damage to Iran’s Nuclear Program

9

The Israel-Iran War: Possibilities and the Dangers of Overreach

10

Why North Korea Is Planning a Second Korean War and How to Stop It

11

The One Factor That Could Crash the Russian Economy

12

Putin’s Nuclear Meltdown

13

Inside the Drone War Arms Race in Ukraine

14

Ukraine Invades Russia: What’s Next? Interview with Ukrainian Combat Vet

15

Ukraine Finally Has F-16s. What Now?

16

How China Might Invade Taiwan: A World on the Brink Scenario

17

New Secrets From the Cold War and Lessons for Cold War II With China

18

How the US Planned to Respond to Russia Using a Nuke in Ukraine

19

The Trinity Revolution in Warfare: Precision, Sensors and Comms

20

Why North Korea is Probably Not Planning a War

21

Why China Can’t Blockade Taiwan

22

Battle of Wills: Ukraine’s Path to Victory

23

The Drone Wars: How Consumer Tech Is Shaping the Ukraine War

24

All Things AI: An Interview With White House AI Guru Ben Buchanan

25

Why Chinese Economy Is Heading For Stagnation, Not Collapse

26

Why Quantum Computing May be Overhyped but AI isn’t: Interview with the NSA

27

How Ukraine Can Benefit From ATACMS Missiles

28

Starlink in Ukraine: Why the Story Is Not So Simple

29

Why 702 is America’s most valuable intelligence program: Interview with the FBI

30

What the Death of Prigozhin Means for Wagner, Russia and Ukraine

31

How Russian Intelligence operatives have attacked Ukraine in cyberspace: Interview with Ukrainian Security Service

32

Why Reports of the US Dollar’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

33

Why Europe’s Dependence on the US Military Will Not Change

34

How Drones Are Changing the Nature of Warfare in Ukraine

35

Trip Report: What I Learned in Kyiv and Conversation with Mike Kofman and Rob Lee about Counteroffensive and Wagner

36

Mutiny in Russia: Who Won, Who Lost and What Caused It

37

Ukraine’s Offensive Has Begun: Analysis With Michael Kofman and Rob Lee

38

How AI Will Transform Future Militaries (And Societies)

39

How China Plans to Win the Chip War

40

How Ukraine Can Survive the Exhaustion of Its Air Defense Stocks

41

China and Russia: An Alliance, an Alignment or a Marriage of Convenience?

42

Why Taiwan’s Military Modernization Is Moving Too Slowly

43

Myth Busting With Michael Kofman: Debunking Common Misperceptions About the Ukraine War

44

How Russia’s Winter Offensive Could Backfire

45

Interview: This American Spent 10 Months Fighting in Ukraine

46

How Russia is Working Around Western Sanctions and Export Controls

47

Why Ukraine May Try to Retake Crimea Next

48

How Dwindling Ammunition Stocks Could Decide the Outcome of the War

49

New Phase of the War: Ukraine Faces Tough Decisions

50

No Way Out: Why Negotiations Won’t End the War Soon

51

Russia’s Cyber Game: What Worked and What Didn’t

52

How the Russian Air Force Failed in Ukraine

53

Keys Lessons for Taiwan from the War in Ukraine

54

How Putin’s Reign Could End

55

Scenarios for How This War Might End

56

How America Pulled the Plug on China’s Chips Sector

57

What the Kerch Bridge Attack Means for the War

58

Betting It All on Black: Putin’s Partial Mobilization

59

Like Ants to Wet Sugar: How Ukraine Won The Battle of Kharkiv

60

Russian northern front collapse: Latest on Ukrainian Counteroffensive

61

Why the global food shortage is a myth

62

Ukraine’s cheap drones wreak havoc in Crimea

63

Slicing the Sausage: Ukraine’s Upcoming Counteroffensive

64

How Russia Engineered the Perfect Gas Crisis

65

Why Giving Ukraine F-16s Makes Sense

66

Ukraine’s HIMARS edge may not last: Analysis of the war in Ukraine (July 10, 2022)

67

How Putin is dragging Belarus into the war: Analysis of the war in Ukraine (June 26, 2022)

68

The War of Attrition: Analysis of the war in Ukraine (June 19, 2022)

69

The Long War: Analysis of the war in Ukraine (June 5, 2022)

70

Inside the West’s Economic War Against Russia: Analysis of the war in Ukraine (May 27, 2022)

71

How effective is the Russian military: Analysis of the war in Ukraine (May 15, 2022)

72

How Moskva Was Sunk: Analysis of the war in Ukraine (May 8, 2022)

73

Ukrainian Military: Analysis of the war in Ukraine (May 1, 2022)

74

Fight for Donbas: Analysis of the war in Ukraine (April 24, 2022)

75

Nuclear Weapons: Iran, North Korea and Have We Lost the Nonproliferation Fight?

76

Science of War: Analysis of the war in Ukraine and implications for Taiwan (April 3, 2022)

77

Endgame in Sight: Analysis of the the war in Ukraine (March 27, 2022)

78

Stalemate: Analysis of the the war in Ukraine (March 20, 2022)

79

War for Cities: Military analysis of the the war in Ukraine (March 13, 2022)

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Military analysis of the the war in Ukraine: March 6, 2022