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There Is No Light Web - Minor Powers

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Ukraine Is Not a Sovereign State

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The World Cup of Politics (Brazil Elections)

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Brazilianization

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Ethiopia's New War

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Circular Financing

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Rubio Makin Moves

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The Sand Mafias

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Rabbit Season, Duck Season

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The $10 Trillion Ocean

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Boil the Frog

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Pulped

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Cooler Heads Are Not Prevailing

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Lessons Learned - Geopolitical Cousins

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This Is The Way The World Ends (w/ Zeihan & Gertken) - Geopolitical Cousins

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Geography is Destiny: China, The Global South, & Energy

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Why Is China Bad at Soccer?

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Shipping for Dummies

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Frontlines: Ukraine, Iran, oil markets, and what the World Cup reveals about global politics

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Is The War Over?

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The Cartel Math Isn't Mathing

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Crosspost: Frontlines "Hormuz to AI"

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Who Killed the Florida Orange?

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Are the Cartels Winning?

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Static, Not Strategic

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Warp Speed for Everything

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Gross Diplomacy

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Fertilizer 101

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The Off Ramp Is Right Now

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The View From Delhi

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Soft Power is Underrated

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Renegade Scottish Economics

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Firepower Is Not a Strategy

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An Imminent, Underreported War

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Escape from Tel Aviv

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Who's Running Tehran?

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Decapitation Strike

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Healthy Climate Skepticism (?)

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The Cold War That Wasn’t

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Takaichi's New Japan

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War With Iran

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Land, Debt, and Decline

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The Black Sea Isn’t Quiet Anymore

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Fed Under Fire

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Measuring Risk

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For My Friends, Everything; For My Enemies, The Law

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Bye Bye Maduro, You Gone Now

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Money and Control

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Right Wing Ascendant

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The Return of Imperial Strategy

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The Geography of a Missing Daughter

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The Geopolitics of Personalized Money

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Demand Shock

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"What the West Should Learn from China"

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“The Longevity Dividend, or, Why You Shouldn’t Bathe in the Blood of Virgins”

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“ChatGPT is so mid”, or, Why AI Won’t Change the World

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The Legality of Trump’s Tariffs and U.S. Trade Power

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The Shrimp Among Whales

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The Rightist International

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Sovereignty vs. Swipe Fees

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A Wild New Era of Japanese Politics

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Leverage on Leverage on Leverage

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The Government Is Coming For Your [insert asset here]

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Techno-Feudal Estates

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Alone in the Insane Asylum

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Youth Against Government

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“Bitcoin is a Miracle”

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Deterrence by Punishment

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Soft Dictatorship, Big Tariffs

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Pissing in the Public Pool

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Fiscal Reality and Financial Repression

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The White Nationalist Social Democracy

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Our Post-Neoliberal Moment (w/ Mike Konczal)

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Our Currency, Your Problem

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Unpacking the U.S.-Pakistan Reset (with Fahd Humayun)

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The Largest Standing Army In Europe

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Latin America's Moment in Global Chaos

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Tariffs, Trust, and Tokyo

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Israel Strikes Iran P2: Analyst Kamran Bokhari

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Israel Strikes Iran P1: Security Expert Hamidreza Azizi

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Stablecoins and the Geopolitics of Trust

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Ukrainian Drone Attack and the Future of War

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The Juice Is Already Killing Us

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The Most Terrifying Insect You’ve Never Heard Of

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The Froth of Grift

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The Reverse Currency Crisis That Isn’t

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The Indus Waters Are Getting Hot

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Latinos for Trump (But Make It Complicated)

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The Pahalgam Terrorist Attack

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Go Where The Fiscal Is

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The Economy Has COVID

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Separating Signal From Noise (with Rob!)

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Let Them Drink Bleach

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Blessing by Blowtorch

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Riding on the Hog of a Fiscal Orgy

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🇺🇸 Liberation Day 🇺🇸

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At the Frontline of the South China Sea and Democracy

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Beware the Profit Recession and India’s Stock Bubble

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Geopolitical Cousins - Get Off Our Lawn

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Will Trump Go to War with Iran?

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