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Geopolitics Unplugged — 253 episodes
IRGC Ship Strike Triggers US Strikes on 140 Iran Targets; Oil Prices Set to Climb | Rapid Read 12 July 2026
Oil Markets Brace as Hormuz Adapts But Iran Enforces Control | Rapid Read 11 July 2026
Ukraine Strikes St. Petersburg Oil Terminal as China Patrols Taiwan | Rapid Read 5 July 2026
Hormuz: French Carrier Departs as China Appoints New PLA Commanders | Rapid Read 4 July 2026
Shaky Cease Fire in Hormuz; Ukraine Targets Russian Refineries | Rapid Read 28 June 2026
US Retaliates Against Iran; Ship Damaged in Hormuz; Ras Tanura Oil Flows Resume | Rapid Read 27 June 2026
Hormuz Open or Closed?; Trump Says He Will Toll Hormuz If No Peace In 60d | Rapid Read 21 June 2026
20M Iranian Barrels Surge as Hormuz Shifts to Iran Permission Rules; Lebanon Ceasefire with Israel | Rapid Read 20 June 2026
UK Seizes Russian Shadow Fleet Tanker; Russian Fuel Depots Hit; Trump Preps Iran Deal | Rapid Read 14 June 2026
Hormuz Breakthrough| US-Iran Deal Signed in 24 Hours? | Rapid Read 13 June 2026
Hormuz Dark Tankers Trigger Oil Market Blind Spot | Rapid Read 7 June 2026
US Downs Iranian Drones at Hormuz; US Strikes Back; Ukraine Hits Russia Hard | Rapid Read 6 June 2026
US Strikes Iran Blockade Runner, Ukraine Drills Russian Refineries | Rapid Read 31 May 2026
Hormuz on a Knife Edge: Rising Hormuz Transits But Full Supply Still Blocked | Rapid Read 30 May 2026
Trump Signals Hormuz Diplomatic Breakthrough; Russian Oreshnik Strikes Hit Ukraine | Rapid Read 24 May 2026
Russian Export Nodes Burn by Ukraine Strikes; Alberta Independence? | Rapid Read 23 May 2026
Record Low Oil Stocks; Fertilizer Shock Looms; Russia Waiver Expires, Hormuz Limited | Rapid Read 17 May 2026
Iran Seizes Chinese Armory Vessel; UAE Seeks to Doubles Hormuz Bypass with Pipeline | Rapid Read 16 May 2026
Orban Era Ends: Hungary New PM Demands President Quit in Dramatic Showdown | Rapid Read 10 May 2026
US Strikes Iranian Tankers; Limited Hormuz Oil Transits Resume | Rapid Read 9 May 2026
China Strikes: Defies Sanctions, Resumes Fuel Exports | Rapid Read 3 May 2026
Trump Removes 5k Troops from Germany; More Sanctions on China Hurt Iran; US LNG Glut | Rapid Read 2 May 2026
Iran Talks Collapse; Hormuz Still Empty; US Navy Seizes Iranian Ship; Oil Prices to Rise | Rapid Read 26 April 2026
US Iran Blockade Goes Global; Iran FM in Pakistan; China Refinery Sanctioned | Rapid Read 25 April 2026
IRGC Fires on Tankers in Hormuz; Ukraine Attacks Samara refineries and Port | Rapid Read 19 April 2026
Hungary Elections; No Progress on Hormuz; US Starts Clearing Mines | Rapid Read 12 April 2026
Forties Blend $147 Shock; Iran Locks Hormuz; Anthropic’s Mythos AI Escapes | Rapid Read 11 April 2026
OMG the PetroDollar is Going Away!
US Missiles Depleted; Hormuz Reopens Selectively; US Pilot Rescued | Rapid Read 5 April 2026
US F-15 Downed Over Iran & Habshan Shutdown | Rapid Read 4 April 2026
Tankers Slip Through Closed Hormuz While Iran Hits Aluminum & Airports | Rapid Read 29 Mar 2026
Houthis Join the Fight; Russia Declares Force Majeure| Rapid Read 28 Mar 2026
Trump 48-Hour Ultimatum: Obliterate Iran Power Plants if Hormuz Not Reopened | Rapid Read 22 Mar 2026
US Issues Iran Oil Waiver; Thousands of US Marines Rushed to Gulf | Rapid Read 21 Mar 2026
Europe’s Nightmare Choice: Pay Trump for LNG or Beg Putin for Gas After Gulf Strikes Wipe Out Qatar Supply?
Drone Attack-Hormuz Bypass Fragility Exposed: Fujairah & UAE | Rapid Read 15 Mar 2026
US Bombs Kharg Island; Will the US Invade Kharg Island? | Rapid Read 14 Mar 2026
Iran War Day 9: Tehran Oil Sites Bombed, Iran Drones Strike Gulf – Hormuz Still | Rapid Read 8 Mar 2026
Iran Update: 3rd US Aircraft Carrier En Route; Trump Demands Unconditional Surrender; Force Majeure Cascade | Rapid Read 7 March 2026
Detailed Update: Day 2 of the Attack on Iran | Rapid Read 1 March 2026
Iran’s Oil and Gas Infrastructure Under Fire
SPECIAL EDITION: ATTACK ON IRAN AND CONSEQUENCES- FULL REPORT | Rapid Read 28 Feb 2026
Hungary Blocks Ukraine Aid, US Global 15% Tariff | Rapid Read 22 Feb 2026
Tariffs Voided; $175B Refund Chaos; 10% Global Tariff—Rapid Read 21 Feb 2026
US-Israel Pact Aims to Curb Exports to China which is 80% of Iran Crude—Rapid Read 15 Feb 2026
India’s Reliance chugs VZ oil 500k barrels to Jamnagar refinery—Rapid Read 14 Feb 2026
$580 billion Indian Ag Sector Opens, Board of Peace Meeting Set, Thai Election —Rapid Read 8 Feb 2026
EU Maritime Lock, Iran Tanker Grabs + Taiwan Arms Rush —Rapid Read 7 Feb 2026
Trump 100% Canada Tariff Threat + Ukraine Talks Collapse—Rapid Read 25 Jan 2026
Iran Armada Alert, Oil Hits $61 + Gas Surge - Rapid Read 24 Jan 2026
DAVOS REVIEW: January 23, 2026
DAVOS REVIEW: January 22-23, 2026
DAVOS REVIEW: January 21-22, 2026
Rapid Read: Geopolitical Must-Knows for Today (18 Jan 2026)
Rapid Read: Geopolitical Must-Knows for Today (17 Jan 2026)
Rapid Read: Geopolitical Must-Knows for Today (11 Jan 2026)
EP197: The Graying Dragon: How China’s Aging Crisis Threatens Global Economic Stability
EP196: Chips and Ambition: How AI and U.S.-Saudi Deals Are Redefining Global Power
EP195: The New Oil Price War: Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan, and the Battle for Market Control
EP194: UK-US Trade Deal: A Blueprint for Trump’s Global Trade Gamble?
EP193: The AfD Crackdown: Surveillance, Stigma, and the Fight for Democracy
EP192: The Dark Side of Decarbonization: Unpacking the Iberian Blackout
EP191: Drones vs. Dollars: The Costly Calculus of U.S.-Houthi Warfare
EP190: The Herculean Task of Negotiating Dozens of Bilateral Trade Agreements Simultaneously
EP189: Will Belarus Survive the Ukraine War’s Endgame?
EP188: Trade War Escalation: Can Debt Be Weaponized Against America?
EP187: Why India’s Racing Against Time for a Game-Changing US Trade Deal
EP186: $3 Gas Today, $5 Tomorrow? The Hidden Crisis Lurking in U.S. Shale
EP185: A simple Reason Why The US Will Always Likely Need China: The Critical Divide Between Mining and Refining Metals and Its Global Implications
EP184: SWIFT’s Legacy Meets CIPS’s Ambition: A New Financial Era
EP183: Somalia’s Collapse: Could Al Shabaab Outdo the Taliban’s Terror Legacy?
EP182: Decoding Trump’s Tariff Blitz: Genius or Chaos?
EP181: A Nation on the Brink: The Arrest That Could Trigger a Refugee Tsunami
EP180: How Trump’s Oil Terminal Shutdown Could Topple Maduro—or Backfire Spectacularly
EP179: Trump’s $20 Billion Shipping Fines: The End of U.S. Trade as We Know It?
EP178: Guam: The Tiny Island North Korea Wants to Wipe Off the Map
EP177: China’s Deep-Sea Cable Cutter: A New Weapon in the Shadow War Beneath the Waves
EP176: Sixth-Gen Showdown: Can Boeing’s F-47 Outsmart China’s Hypersonic J-XX?
EP175: The Punisher on Trial: Duterte Faces the ICC’s Reckoning
EP174: The Future of Chipmaking: China’s LDP Lithography and the End of U.S. Sanctions?
EP173: How Turkey Turned Russian Sanctions into an Energy Empire
EP172: China’s Stimulus Machine: Economic Savior or Debt Trap in Disguise?
EP171: North Korea’s Nuclear Submarine Shocker: Game-Changer or Bluff?
EP170: Crypto Chaos Unleashed: Trump’s Reserve Sparks Fierce Debate
EP169: Why Donald Trump Hates the CHIPS Act
EP168: Cabotage Laws: The Next Frontier in Trump’s 2025 Trade War?
EP167: South China Sea Standoff: The Submarine Edge That Could Decide It All
EP166: Unmanned Shipping Revolution: Can Bulk Containers Go Fully AI?
EP165: A Hacker’s Dream: How the UK Could Undo Apple’s Security
EP164: How Hong Kong Lost Its Freedoms in Just Five Years
EP163: Why Trump’s Keystone XL Plan Outsmarts the Critics
EP162: Does Shutting Down the Internet Actually Work in 2025? Is It a Successful Tool for Regime Preservation and Its Geopolitical Ripples
EP161: Saudi Arabia’s Bold Challenge to Trump’s Gaza Plan: A New Vision for Palestinian Sovereignty
EP160: Trump’s Fast-Track Push: Oil Pipelines, Gold Mines, and the Race for American Resource Dominance
EP159: Xi Jinping’s Power Consolidation: Beyond 2025 - How Xi’s Leadership Shapes China’s Domestic and Foreign Policy Trajectory
EP158: Why Putin Can't Afford Peace
EP 157: From Promise to Plunder: The Saga of Nigeria's Oil Wealth
Ep156 The Architects of Change or Agents of Chaos
EP155 The German Election of 2025 The Rise of the Right and the Left in Germany
EP154: The Fall of a Rebel Queen: How Sularte's Death Reshapes Philippine Insurgency
EP153: The Total and Complete Failure of the Venezuelan Oil and Gas Industry: A Historical and Geopolitical Review
EP152: Iran's Shadow Network: The Proxies Shaping Middle Eastern Politics
EP151: The World’s Largest Polluter: China’s Role in Global Climate Change
EP 150 Plaquemines LNG The Future of U.S. Energy Exports and Global Impact
EP149: Trump’s Iron Dome: A Modern Revival of Reagan’s Star Wars Program?
EP148: The End of Democracy in Nicaragua: How the Ortega-Murillo Regime Took Over
EP147: South China Sea Flashpoint: China’s Provocations and the U.S.-Philippines Alliance
EP146: China’s Role in the Global Arms Trade: An Analysis of Arms Exports and Their Geopolitical Implications
EP145: Bribery and Business: Navigating the Complexities of the FCPA
EP144: M23 Rebels and the Fight for Eastern DRC
EP143: Revolt in Serbia: The Movement Challenging Vučić’s Rule
EP142: The Geopolitics of the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Power, Control, and Electronic Warfare
EP141: The $800 Question: The Future of De Minimis Under Trump
EP140: The Geopolitics of Soldier-Less Battlefields: The Rise of Unmanned Weapon Systems
EP139: China’s Economic Sanctions: A Tool of Foreign Policy
EP138: How Did Poland Get on US Sanctions and Why
EP137: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: A New Financial Order?
EP136: Erasing Identity: A Deep Dive into the Uyghur Repression
EP135: Hydro-Hegemony: China's Pivotal Role in Transboundary Water Diplomacy
EP134: Narco-Networks: A Geopolitical Analysis of the Global Drug Trade
EP133: Russia's Energy Empire Under Siege: From Biden's Sanctions to Ukrainian Strikes and Even China Chips In
EP132: Intel's Dual Role: A Misstep in the Semiconductor Industry?
EP131: From Pampas to Power: The Strategic Importance of Argentina's Vaca Muerta
EP130: Hydrogen Energy Takes Center Stage: The Final Rules of Section 45V
EP129: The City That Forgot Its People: Lessons from Xiong'an New Area
EP128: The Intricate Web of Yemen, Houthis, Israel, and the US: A 2025 Perspective
EP127: Nuclear Power Plant Proliferation and the Path to Nuclear Weapons: Step by step How to Build a Bomb
EP126 Crypto Diplomacy Bitcoin as a Tool for Geopolitical Strategy
EP125: China’s $225 billion to $600 billion per year theft: Chinese Industrial Espionage
EP124: When Planes Crash, Politics Soar: The Geopolitics of Aviation Tragedies
EP123: Climate Migration, Human Trafficking and National Security: Balancing Borders and Humanity
EP122: Trump’s Commands to US Shale Oil and Gas Producers: Will It and Can It Be Followed?
EP 121: Democracy Without Borders: Somaliland’s Fight for Recognition
EP120: Gas Rich, Trust Poor: Mozambique’s Fragile State of Affairs
EP119: Populist Promises and Economic Realities in Latin America
EP118: Breakdown of China Military Power Report 2024 by the Department of Defense
EP117: Will the US Blue Falcon the Kurds Again?; Why the Kurds Are America's Friends in the Middle East
EP116: Crypto Chaos: How North Korean Hackers are Exploiting the Blockchain; Billions Stolen, Sanctions Evaded: The Real Impact of North Korean Crypto Hacking
EP115: Crude Realities: Why the U.S. Imports Oil Despite Leading Production; Refined Choices: The Hidden Reasons Behind U.S. Oil Imports
EP114: Biden Administration Doorknob moment for the LNG industry The Double-Edged Sword of LNG: Economic Gains vs. Environmental Costs
EP113: The Intrigue of Acquiring Greenland: A Comprehensive Analysis (Greenland as Trump’s 51st state)
EP112: Myanmar in Flames: The Civil War, China, and the Battle for the Nation's Soul
EP111: Italy’s African Ambition: The High Stakes of the Mattei Plan Is it just simply another Belt and Road debt trap program?
EP110: The AI Paradox: Can China's Innovations Undermine Its Authoritarian Control? Controlled Innovation: The CCP’s Battle to Harness and Tame AI
EP109: From Steppes to Success: Why Kazakhstan Might Be the Oil Market's Hidden Gem
EP108: Is America’s China Problem a Vietnam Solution?
EP107: Silent Watchers: The Secretive World of U.S. Reconnaissance Satellites
EP106: Energy Transition in Lithium Ion Batteries and the Impact on the DRC
EP105: Tiny Chips, Big Myths: How Military Systems Actually Use Semiconductors
EP104: Liang Mong Song: The AQ Khan of the Semiconductor Revolution?
EP103: The Geopolitical Leverage of Antimony: China’s Strategic Advantage
EP102: China’s Auto Expansion in Mexico: A Backdoor Threat to North American Trade
EP101: Nearshoring in Canada: Opportunities Amid Tariff Challenges
EP100: Mexico's Nearshoring Boom: Winners, Losers, and the Future of Global Manufacturing
EP99: DJT the OpecSec President… and the National Security Agency Vacancy
EP98: Manufacturing’s Homecoming: The American Cities Best Positioned to Thrive in the Reshoring Era
EP97: Who Killed Haiti? The Complex Web Behind a Nation's Downfall
EP96: Broken Minds, Broken Nation: The Economic and Geopolitical Fallout of America's Mental Health Crisis
EP95: Mining the Moon and in Space: Legal Loopholes and Geopolitical Rivalries in Space
EP94: Racing to Rule the Skies: How Satellite Internet is Reshaping Global Power Dynamics
EP93: The Quiet Crisis Above: Unveiling the Dark Side of Space Militarization
EP92: Beyond the Stars: The Geopolitics of the Commercial Space Revolution: SpaceX versus the World
EP90: From Local Violence to Global Power: The Rise of Terrorist Geopolitics
EP91: From Baltic Sabotage to Taiwan’s Lifelines: Is China Testing Its Next Move?
EP89: Winners and Losers: The Global South's Future in the Era of Nearshoring
EP88: Did Russia really launch an ICBM into Ukraine? If so, what is the significance?
EP87: Is Globalism Dead, or Can China's BRI Revive It?: BRI vs. Reshoring: The Battle for the Future of Global Trade
EP86: The Real Answer to Drone Swarms: Meet the U.S. Weapon Changing the Battlefield (Epirus Leonidas)
EP85 The Next Oil Frontier: Suriname's Path to Wealth or Woe
EP84: Libya’s ‘Stable Instability’: What’s Keeping the Peace—and What Could Break It? Implications for the Oil and Gas Sector and Foreign Direct Investment
EP83 Chancay Port in Peru: The New Frontline in the US-China Global Trade Wars: How the Port Could Bypass the Panama Canal—and Challenge U.S. Trade
EP82: The Dragon Takes Flight: China's Growing Naval Air Power
Episode 81: Reshoring Revolution: How Jobs Are Returning to the USA and Changing Global Trade
EP80: The Future of Guyana
EP79:The Four Pillars of AI Processing Analyzing CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs
EP78:The Arctic A New Frontier for Geopolitical Competition
EP77: From Imitator to Innovator: How ‘Made in China 2025’ aims to Transform China’s Position to the Top of the Global Value Chain
EP76: US Oil, LNG, and Carbon Capture: Inside the Next Energy Czar’s Bold Energy Vision-Doug Burgum
EP75: The Renewable Delusion: Why Transition Alone Won’t Power Tomorrow’s World
EP74: Ukraine will just build a nuclear bomb in 6 months
EP73: Iran’s Nuclear Crossroads: Will Regional Tensions Push Tehran Over the Edge to Nuclear Weapons?
EP72: Memory Wars: Why DRAM and HBM Must Be the Next Front in AI Export Restrictions: How Memory Tech Could Shape China’s Superpower Ambitions
EP71: Ports, Power, and Provocation: China's Naval Ambitions from Djibouti to Cuba
Episode 70: The New Star Wars: Can China Survive the Semiconductor Squeeze? A New Modern Cold War (An opinion piece)
Episode 69: Light-Speed AI: Why China’s Taichi Chip Should Put the U.S. on High Alert
EP68: Think Building a Cutting-Edge Chip Factory is Easy? Think Again. Here's the Dirty Truth Behind Clean Rooms
EP67: The Lithium Gold Rush: Can the American Smackdown Formation Transform the U.S. from Lithium Dependence to Lithium Independence?
EP66: China can’t make its own 5nm or 3nm chips under these export restrictions, can it?
EP65: The South Korean Loophole: Is China’s Access to Advanced Technology Wide Open?
EP64: Balancing Progress and Protection: Japan’s Role in Global Semiconductor Security
EP63: Protecting Security or Sinking Stocks? The High Stakes of Dutch Export Laws
EP62: The Silicon Gatekeepers: Taiwan’s Technology Defense and Its Global Ripple Effect
EP61: The Power of Influence: How China’s United Front Seeks Control Abroad
EP60: Is Intel going to be a CHIPS Act success or failure?
EP59: China’s overcapacity problem aka Dumping
EP58: Palantir: an amazing applied AI company you probably never heard of, but should know
EP57: Is China winning the Chip War
EP56: Geopolitics of time zones
EP55: Why don’t we have super robots that do all of our dirty work for us yet…
EP54: A Contrary view of Geopolitics and Deglobalization
Episode 53: North Korea launches its furthest, highest and fastest ICBM to date: Why you should care?
Episode 52: Reports of over 100 women commit mass suicide in Sudan's Al Jazirah
EP51: Is AI all hype?
EP50: America’s Addiction to War: The Military-Industrial Complex in the Age of Big Tech
EP49: Is a key part of the goal of the CHIPS act showing cracks?
EP48: Après Erdoğan, le déluge? What comes after Erdoğan?
Episode 47: The 269-269 Scenario
Episode 46: Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) why you should care
EP45: What is a blue water navy?
EP44: The Assent of Türkiye Cumhuriyeti (Turkey)?
EP43: Update on Geothermal Power Plants: Fervo Energy’s Project Red, Project Cape and FORGE
EP42: Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project suspends operations indefinitely
EP 41: African Gold as a Russian means to help fund its fight in Ukraine
EP 40: Russia Provided Targeting Data for Houthi
EP39: Russia’s submersible LNG tanker plan
EP38: US Navy versus Fast attack Craft (FACs) and other asymmetrical attacks
EP37: Big data, data tracking, data flows and Chinese cashless system
EP 36: How much of a plug and play is it for a coal fired power plant to be converted to a nuclear power plant
EP 35: A distinction without a meaningful difference? Decoupling v. De-risking
EP 34: Autonomous cars: Why don’t we have self-driving cars yet?
EP 33: Content Moderation, information Industrial Complex
EP 32: Demographics important but not everything
EP 31: Counterattacking North Korea with nukes: the reality
EP 30: The Jones Act: A time to reform
EP 29: How much oil and natural gas does US have...
EP 28: BRICS viability and SWIFT
EP27: Cuba power outages, whose fault is it?
EP26: Autonomous Hunter Killer Drones
EP19: Are Russian Crude Oil Sanctions Working?
EP25: Moldova and Georgia elections updated and Russian interference and joining the EU? Comments o other applicant candidates to the EU
EP24: What will North Koreans actually do in Ukraine?
EP23: Is Iran shifting away from Persian and Shia dominance mindset to Pan Arabism?
EP22: European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI) What you need to know
Episode 21: Has OPEC+ lost relevance
Episode 20: We can shoot down nuclear weapons, right?
EP18: Is Jordan truly a puppet state? And is Jordan going to be the new Syria?
EP17: Will Europe make its own nuclear weapons?
EP16: Deep Big Data Learning (DBDL) a theory and a question
EP15: Will the autonomous car kill the DUI defense industry?
EP14: The health of the Russian LNG sanctions
EP13: Industrial cyber infrastructure vulnerabilities
EP12: Does it make sense for US taxpayer money to go to “fix”’ the Lobito Atlantic Railway (LAR) Benguela railway corridor?
EP11: Is China going to invade Taiwan?
EP10: Is there a future in US domestic mining for cobalt and lithium versus global mining for them?
EP09: Do Necons or Active measures define the defund Ukraine movement?
Episode 8: Saudi Arabia as swing producer and Saudi Claims of Increase Production: Why you should care?
EP07: Comments on France commissioning a new nuclear aircraft carrier and the essential need for becoming a blue water navy
EP06: North Korea gets a nuclear sub? Why you should care
EP05: Moldova and Russia: Why should you care
EP04 Updates on AI, Semiconductors, future power demand and Quantum Computing
EP03 SiC technology and WolfSpeed: Why should you care?
EP02 Where are we going to get the energy folks?
EP01 What is the Global Value Chain and Why is it important to be on top