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The Power Vertical Podcast by Brian Whitmore — 240 episodes

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WAR, POLITICS, AND THE POWER OF THE UKRAINIAN STREET

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'WHY BREAK WHAT'S WORKING?' - THE STRANGE SACKING OF UKRAINE'S DEFENSE MINISTER

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UKRAINE, POLAND, AND HISTORY

4

WAR AND INNOVATION - HOW UKRAINE REVOLUTIONIZED CIVIL DEFENSE

5

THE KREMLIN’S NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

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INNOVATION NATION: HOW UKRAINE IS REVOLUTIONIZING WARFARE

7

RUSSIA VS. EUROPE

8

VIBES, REALITY, AND WAR

9

RUSSIA'S SEASON OF DISCONTENT

10

UKRAINE'S ASYMMETRICAL ADVANTAGE

11

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

12

ZELENSKY HAS 'THE CARDS'

13

TOWARD A POST-LIBERAL WORLD

14

REFLEXIVE CONTROL AND USEFUL IDIOTS - EPSTEIN AND THE RUSSIANS

15

GRU UNIT 29155 & THE 'HAVANA SYNDROME'

16

FOUR YEARS OF WAR

17

WAR BY OTHER MEANS - THE KREMLIN'S NEGOTIATING PLAYBOOK

18

RUSSIA AND THE EMERGING WORLD ORDER

19

THE DARK ART OF GEOPOLITICAL EXTORTION

20

FEAR AND LOATHING IN DAVOS

21

RUSSIA’S WAR ON UKRAINIAN CHILDREN

22

ZELENSKY'S RESET

23

MYTHS, NARRATIVES, AND WAR

24

UKRAINE'S PERILOUS MOMENT

25

THE POKROVSK ENDGAME - AND AFTERMATH

26

THE BATTLE OF POKROVSK

27

WAR, DIPLOMACY, AND POLITICS

28

HOW UKRAINE WINS THE WAR

29

THE BATTLE FOR MOLDOVA

30

RUSSIA'S WAR ON EUROPE

31

THE CHINA FACTOR

32

THE END OF PUTIN'S ISOLATION

33

PUTIN'S DEADLY IMMORTALITY QUEST

34

THE ALASKA SUMMIT

35

WAR AND KABUKI PEACE TALKS

36

THE GUNS AND DRONES OF SUMMER

37

DEMOCRACY DURING WARTIME

38

THE COLD WAR WITHIN

39

RUSSIA'S FEISTY NEIGHBORHOOD

40

PUTIN'S SHRINKING AXIS OF ROGUES

41

THE CHINA FILE

42

THE MACGYVER NATION STRIKES BACK

43

Brian Whitmore on ABC NewsRadio

44

RUSSIA'S CYBER SPIDERS

45

THE HUMAN COST OF RUSSIA'S WAR

46

PUTIN'S CO-CONSPIRATORS

47

THE POTEMKIN PEACE PLAN

48

AND THE WAR GRINDS ON

49

THE NEW EUROPEAN FRONT

50

STRANGE NEW WORLD - UTA TALK

51

BRAVE NEW INTELLIGENCE WORLD

52

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

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THE PUTINIZATION OF WORLD POLITICS

54

LAZY 'REALISM' AND THE APPEASEMENT OF RUSSIA

55

IT'S EUROPE'S MOMENT

56

A TIPPING POINT FOR UKRAINE -- AND EUROPE

57

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

58

EURASIAN EMPIRES CLASHING

59

THE WAGES (AND DEBTS) OF WAR

60

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

61

THE END OF THE WORLD ORDER AS WE KNOW IT?

62

PUTIN'S PLOT AGAINST AMERICA

63

MOSCOW'S NEXT MOVE

64

UKRAINE'S NEW REALITY

65

NUKES, NATO, AND UKRAINIAN SECURITY

66

SHOWDOWN IN THE GRAY ZONE

67

GEORGIA'S DECISIVE MOMENT

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THE WAR AT HOME

69

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

70

ZELENSKY'S PLAN, PUTIN'S THREATS

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A MOMENT OF TRUTH IN UKRAINE

72

THE DICTATOR'S LITTLE HELPERS

73

UKRAINE'S KURSK OFFENSIVE

74

UKRAINE STRIKES BACK

75

PUTIN'S HOSTAGE - TAKING TERROR MACHINE

76

THE GEOPOLITICS OF THE SOUTH CAUCASUS

77

ROGUE RUSSIA

78

WRONGFULLY DETAINED

79

UKRAINE: THE VIEW FROM THE FRONT

80

PUTIN PLAYS THE PYONGYANG CARD

81

RUSSIA THE COLONIZER

82

GEORGIA ON THE BRINK

83

NORTHERN EXPOSURE

84

PUTIN'S NEW POLITBURO

85

PUTIN'S POLITICAL PRISONERS

86

THE MYTHS OF WAR

87

PUTIN'S IMPERIAL GURUS

88

THE WAR GRINDS ON

89

THE POLITICS OF UKRAINE ASSISTANCE

90

TERROR IN MOSCOW, DELUSION IN THE KREMLIN

91

ALL THE DICTATOR'S MEN

92

RUSSIA AFTER NAVALNY

93

TWO YEARS OF WAR

94

DEATH OF A DISSIDENT

95

THE PRESIDENT AND THE GENERALS

96

RUSSIA TOMORROW: FIVE SCENARIOS FOR RUSSIA'S FUTURE

97

NUKES, LIES, AND 'SECURITY ASSURANCES'

98

THE WAR IN THE WEST

99

A MOMENT OF TRUTH IN UKRAINE

100

MR. ZELENSKY GOES TO WASHINGTON

101

Putin's Middle Eastern Front

102

Putin's Latest American Hostage

103

TOWARD A THEORY OF SUCCESS IN UKRAINE

104

UKRAINE'S HOME FRONT

105

BREAKING THE STALEMATE

106

UNPACKING PUTIN'S GLOBAL STRATEGY

107

600 DAYS OF WAR

108

THE NEW CRIMEAN WAR

109

THE PUTINIST IDEOLOGY

110

THE WAR IN AUTUMN

111

WAR, PUNISHMENT, AND CATHARSIS

112

PUTIN'S OTHER WARS

113

SEDITION AND PUNISHMENT

114

STATE OF THE WAR

115

THE BATTLE FOR GEORGIA, THEN AND NOW

116

MOSCOW'S WOUNDED 'GODFATHER'

117

KREMLIN CHAOS & NATO UNITY

118

AFTER THE UPRISING

119

INSURRECTION AND CONSEQUENCES

120

WHO BLEW UP NORD STREAM?

121

The Long Hot Summer Campaign

122

BUILD UKRAINE BACK BETTER

123

UKRAINE ON THE EVE OF THE SPRING OFFENSIVE

124

The Black Sea Front

125

The China Syndrome

126

SANCTIONS AND PUTIN'S WAR MACHINE

127

CONNEXIONS Day 2 Piercing The Armor Of Russian Propaganda

128

CONNEXIONS Day 1 The New Cold War

129

Fall of an Empire - University of Texas at Arlington Talk

130

ASSASSINATION, INTRIGUE, AND POWER STRUGGLES

131

THE GUNS OF SPRING: UKRAINE'S LOOMING OFFENSIVE

132

Dictators, Summits, and War Crimes

133

THE CASE FOR LIBERATING CRIMEA

134

The Belarusian Front

135

A YEAR OF WAR: PART TWO

136

A YEAR OF WAR: PART ONE

137

UKRAINE AND WESTERN SECURITY

138

THE LONG AND GRINDING WAR

139

Ukraine and The War Over History

140

Ukraine and the Global Battle for Democracy

141

Putin's War Comes Home

142

The Axis of Rogues

143

The Guns of Winter

144

When The War Is Over

145

War, Famine, and Genocide

146

The Winter War

147

The Cartoon Villain

148

Toward a Marshall Plan for Ukraine

149

Threats, Lies, and Dirty Bombs

150

Separated At Birth, University of Texas at Arlington Talk

151

The Ukraine War Escalates

152

Ukraine Strikes Back

153

War, Mobilization, and Blowback

154

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

155

The War After Kharkiv

156

Putin's Energy War

157

Ukraine's Guns of August

158

The Path To Victory In Ukraine

159

Lessons From Between the Cold Wars

160

War and Reckoning

161

The Endurance War

162

The Diaspora and the War

163

Northern Exposure

164

Europe's Last Empire

165

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

166

War and Attrition

167

The Long War

168

Putin's Propaganda Fail

169

Ukraine and the Future of European Security

170

The Asymmetrical War

171

The Imperial Syndrome

172

A Dress Rehearsal For Aggression

173

The Case Against Vladimir Putin

174

The Plot Against Ukraine

175

The War After Bucha

176

The Fog of War

177

Aggression and Blowback

178

War and Consequences

179

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

180

The David-and-Goliath War

181

The Guns of February

182

Ukraine in the Crosshairs

183

Putin's Road from Munich

184

The View From Ukraine

185

Putin's War At Home

186

The Gathering Storm

187

Kazakhstan's Crisis and Russia's Agenda

188

Putin's Imperial Gambit

189

The Kleptocracy Front

190

Living With War

191

Ukraine on the Brink

192

Brinkmanship on the Border

193

Putin's World and the Age of Impunity

194

Rightsizing Russia

195

The Nord Stream-2 Endgame

196

The Battle Against Strategic Corruption and Weaponized Kleptocracy

197

The Two-Front Cold War

198

The Multi-Front War In Ukraine

199

Putin's Rocky Road to 2024

200

Putin's Legitimization Ritual

201

Fortress Russia: Putin's New Model Police State

202

The Guns of September

203

30 Years of Ukrainian Independence

204

Belarus' Year Of Living Dangerously

205

Putin's Plot Against America

206

Fear And Loathing In Putin's Russia

207

Putin's Dangerous Ukraine Delusions

208

Gunboat Diplomacy

209

From Mythology to Reality on Russia

210

Autocrats, Kleptocrats, and Sanctions

211

When Biden Met Putin: Assessing the Geneva Summit

212

When Biden Meets Putin

213

Autocrats and Air Piracy

214

Pipeline Geopolitics

215

Confronting the Axis of Autocrats

216

Putin's Escalating War On Dissent

217

Sanctioning Russia: Deterrence, Defense, and Containment

218

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

219

Dissidents and Exiles

220

The Guns of April

221

The Navalny Paradox and Other Tales

222

The Eastern Front

223

The Georgian Front

224

The Power Horizontal

225

Putin's Death Squads

226

The Plot Against Navalny

227

Corruption Is The New Communism

228

The Navalny Phenomenon

229

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

230

Navalny vs. Putin

231

Navalny's Homecoming

232

The Great Hack

233

Ukraine's Third Revolution

234

Uncharted Waters

235

The Looking-Glass War

236

Weird Scenes Inside The Kremlin

237

Follow the Money

238

Putin's Bad Year

239

BBC 5 Live With Stephen Nolan and Brian Whitmore

240

BBC 5 Live With Dotun Adebayo and Brian Whitmore