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The Power Vertical Podcast by Brian Whitmore — 232 episodes

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RUSSIA'S SEASON OF DISCONTENT

2

UKRAINE'S ASYMMETRICAL ADVANTAGE

3

DON'T LOOK NOW, BUT UKRAINE IS ON A ROLL

4

ZELENSKY HAS 'THE CARDS'

5

TOWARD A POST-LIBERAL WORLD

6

REFLEXIVE CONTROL AND USEFUL IDIOTS - EPSTEIN AND THE RUSSIANS

7

GRU UNIT 29155 & THE 'HAVANA SYNDROME'

8

FOUR YEARS OF WAR

9

WAR BY OTHER MEANS - THE KREMLIN'S NEGOTIATING PLAYBOOK

10

RUSSIA AND THE EMERGING WORLD ORDER

11

THE DARK ART OF GEOPOLITICAL EXTORTION

12

FEAR AND LOATHING IN DAVOS

13

RUSSIA’S WAR ON UKRAINIAN CHILDREN

14

ZELENSKY'S RESET

15

MYTHS, NARRATIVES, AND WAR

16

UKRAINE'S PERILOUS MOMENT

17

THE POKROVSK ENDGAME - AND AFTERMATH

18

THE BATTLE OF POKROVSK

19

WAR, DIPLOMACY, AND POLITICS

20

HOW UKRAINE WINS THE WAR

21

THE BATTLE FOR MOLDOVA

22

RUSSIA'S WAR ON EUROPE

23

THE CHINA FACTOR

24

THE END OF PUTIN'S ISOLATION

25

PUTIN'S DEADLY IMMORTALITY QUEST

26

THE ALASKA SUMMIT

27

WAR AND KABUKI PEACE TALKS

28

THE GUNS AND DRONES OF SUMMER

29

DEMOCRACY DURING WARTIME

30

THE COLD WAR WITHIN

31

RUSSIA'S FEISTY NEIGHBORHOOD

32

PUTIN'S SHRINKING AXIS OF ROGUES

33

THE CHINA FILE

34

THE MACGYVER NATION STRIKES BACK

35

Brian Whitmore on ABC NewsRadio

36

RUSSIA'S CYBER SPIDERS

37

THE HUMAN COST OF RUSSIA'S WAR

38

PUTIN'S CO-CONSPIRATORS

39

THE POTEMKIN PEACE PLAN

40

AND THE WAR GRINDS ON

41

THE NEW EUROPEAN FRONT

42

STRANGE NEW WORLD - UTA TALK

43

BRAVE NEW INTELLIGENCE WORLD

44

NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US! THE EMERGING UKRAINIAN-EUROPEAN DEFENSE ALLIANCE

45

THE PUTINIZATION OF WORLD POLITICS

46

LAZY 'REALISM' AND THE APPEASEMENT OF RUSSIA

47

IT'S EUROPE'S MOMENT

48

A TIPPING POINT FOR UKRAINE -- AND EUROPE

49

THE BATTLE FOR DEMOCRACY, IN THE EAST AND IN THE WEST

50

EURASIAN EMPIRES CLASHING

51

THE WAGES (AND DEBTS) OF WAR

52

THE FALL OF PUTIN'S S.O.B.

53

THE END OF THE WORLD ORDER AS WE KNOW IT?

54

PUTIN'S PLOT AGAINST AMERICA

55

MOSCOW'S NEXT MOVE

56

UKRAINE'S NEW REALITY

57

NUKES, NATO, AND UKRAINIAN SECURITY

58

SHOWDOWN IN THE GRAY ZONE

59

GEORGIA'S DECISIVE MOMENT

60

THE WAR AT HOME

61

MAFIAISM IS THE NEW COMMUNISM - University of Texas at Arlington Talk

62

ZELENSKY'S PLAN, PUTIN'S THREATS

63

A MOMENT OF TRUTH IN UKRAINE

64

THE DICTATOR'S LITTLE HELPERS

65

UKRAINE'S KURSK OFFENSIVE

66

UKRAINE STRIKES BACK

67

PUTIN'S HOSTAGE - TAKING TERROR MACHINE

68

THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE SOUTH CAUCASUS

69

ROGUE RUSSIA

70

WRONGFULLY DETAINED

71

UKRAINE: THE VIEW FROM THE FRONT

72

PUTIN PLAYS THE PYONGYANG CARD

73

RUSSIA THE COLONIZER

74

GEORGIA ON THE BRINK

75

NORTHERN EXPOSURE

76

PUTIN'S NEW POLITBURO

77

PUTIN'S POLITICAL PRISONERS

78

THE MYTHS OF WAR

79

PUTIN'S IMPERIAL GURUS

80

THE WAR GRINDS ON

81

THE POLITICS OF UKRAINE ASSISTANCE

82

TERROR IN MOSCOW, DELUSION IN THE KREMLIN

83

ALL THE DICTATOR'S MEN

84

RUSSIA AFTER NAVALNY

85

TWO YEARS OF WAR

86

DEATH OF A DISSIDENT

87

THE PRESIDENT AND THE GENERALS

88

RUSSIA TOMORROW: FIVE SCENARIOS FOR RUSSIA'S FUTURE

89

NUKES, LIES, AND 'SECURITY ASSURANCES'

90

THE WAR IN THE WEST

91

A MOMENT OF TRUTH IN UKRAINE

92

MR. ZELENSKY GOES TO WASHINGTON

93

Putin's Middle Eastern Front

94

Putin's Latest American Hostage

95

TOWARD A THEORY OF SUCCESS IN UKRAINE

96

UKRAINE'S HOME FRONT

97

BREAKING THE STALEMATE

98

UNPACKING PUTIN'S GLOBAL STRATEGY

99

600 DAYS OF WAR

100

THE NEW CRIMEAN WAR

101

THE PUTINIST IDEOLOGY

102

THE WAR IN AUTUMN

103

WAR, PUNISHMENT, AND CATHARSIS

104

PUTIN'S OTHER WARS

105

SEDITION AND PUNISHMENT

106

STATE OF THE WAR

107

THE BATTLE FOR GEORGIA, THEN AND NOW

108

MOSCOW'S WOUNDED 'GODFATHER'

109

KREMLIN CHAOS & NATO UNITY

110

AFTER THE UPRISING

111

INSURRECTION AND CONSEQUENCES

112

WHO BLEW UP NORD STREAM?

113

The Long Hot Summer Campaign

114

BUILD UKRAINE BACK BETTER

115

UKRAINE ON THE EVE OF THE SPRING OFFENSIVE

116

The Black Sea Front

117

The China Syndrome

118

SANCTIONS AND PUTIN'S WAR MACHINE

119

CONNEXIONS Day 2 Piercing The Armor Of Russian Propaganda

120

CONNEXIONS Day 1 The New Cold War

121

Fall of an Empire - University of Texas at Arlington Talk

122

ASSASSINATION, INTRIGUE, AND POWER STRUGGLES

123

THE GUNS OF SPRING: UKRAINE'S LOOMING OFFENSIVE

124

Dictators, Summits, and War Crimes

125

THE CASE FOR LIBERATING CRIMEA

126

The Belarusian Front

127

A YEAR OF WAR: PART TWO

128

A YEAR OF WAR: PART ONE

129

UKRAINE AND WESTERN SECURITY

130

THE LONG AND GRINDING WAR

131

Ukraine and The War Over History

132

Ukraine and the Global Battle for Democracy

133

Putin's War Comes Home

134

The Axis of Rogues

135

The Guns of Winter

136

When The War Is Over

137

War, Famine, and Genocide

138

The Winter War

139

The Cartoon Villain

140

Toward a Marshall Plan for Ukraine

141

Threats, Lies, and Dirty Bombs

142

Separated At Birth, University of Texas at Arlington Talk

143

The Ukraine War Escalates

144

Ukraine Strikes Back

145

War, Mobilization, and Blowback

146

Putin's Escalation: An Act of Desperation or a Turning Point?

147

The War After Kharkiv

148

Putin's Energy War

149

Ukraine's Guns of August

150

The Path To Victory In Ukraine

151

Lessons From Between the Cold Wars

152

War and Reckoning

153

The Endurance War

154

The Diaspora and the War

155

Northern Exposure

156

Europe's Last Empire

157

The Wider War: Russia's Assault on Ukraine -- and the West

158

War and Attrition

159

The Long War

160

Putin's Propaganda Fail

161

Ukraine and the Future of European Security

162

The Asymmetrical War

163

The Imperial Syndrome

164

A Dress Rehearsal For Aggression

165

The Case Against Vladimir Putin

166

The Plot Against Ukraine

167

The War After Bucha

168

The Fog of War

169

Aggression and Blowback

170

War and Consequences

171

Invasion and Resistance: Scenes from the David-and-Goliath War

172

The David-and-Goliath War

173

The Guns of February

174

Ukraine in the Crosshairs

175

Putin's Road from Munich

176

The View From Ukraine

177

Putin's War At Home

178

The Gathering Storm

179

Kazakhstan's Crisis and Russia's Agenda

180

Putin's Imperial Gambit

181

The Kleptocracy Front

182

Living With War

183

Ukraine on the Brink

184

Brinkmanship on the Border

185

Putin's World and the Age of Impunity

186

Rightsizing Russia

187

The Nord Stream-2 Endgame

188

The Battle Against Strategic Corruption and Weaponized Kleptocracy

189

The Two-Front Cold War

190

The Multi-Front War In Ukraine

191

Putin's Rocky Road to 2024

192

Putin's Legitimization Ritual

193

Fortress Russia: Putin's New Model Police State

194

The Guns of September

195

30 Years of Ukrainian Independence

196

Belarus' Year Of Living Dangerously

197

Putin's Plot Against America

198

Fear And Loathing In Putin's Russia

199

Putin's Dangerous Ukraine Delusions

200

Gunboat Diplomacy

201

From Mythology to Reality on Russia

202

Autocrats, Kleptocrats, and Sanctions

203

When Biden Met Putin: Assessing the Geneva Summit

204

When Biden Meets Putin

205

Autocrats and Air Piracy

206

Pipeline Geopolitics

207

Confronting the Axis of Autocrats

208

Putin's Escalating War On Dissent

209

Sanctioning Russia: Deterrence, Defense, and Containment

210

Truth, Lies, and Foreign Agents: The Kremlin's War on RFE/RL

211

Dissidents and Exiles

212

The Guns of April

213

The Navalny Paradox and Other Tales

214

The Eastern Front

215

The Georgian Front

216

The Power Horizontal

217

Putin's Death Squads

218

The Plot Against Navalny

219

Corruption Is The New Communism

220

The Navalny Phenomenon

221

Taking It To The Streets: Confronting the Putin-Lukashenka Axis

222

Navalny vs. Putin

223

Navalny's Homecoming

224

The Great Hack

225

Ukraine's Third Revolution

226

Uncharted Waters

227

The Looking-Glass War

228

Weird Scenes Inside The Kremlin

229

Follow the Money

230

Putin's Bad Year

231

BBC 5 Live With Stephen Nolan and Brian Whitmore

232

BBC 5 Live With Dotun Adebayo and Brian Whitmore