Episodes

  • Saudi Arabia's Regional Reset: Iran, Yemen, Qatar, the UAE, and the New Gulf Balance

    Saudi Arabia's Regional Reset: Iran, Yemen, Qatar, the UAE, and the New Gulf Balance
    Jun 16 2026
    How Riyadh moved from proxy confrontation and blockade politics toward selective detente, while new tensions with the UAE exposed the limits of Gulf unity.
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    Less than 1 minute
  • Russia-Ukraine War: Claimed Losses on Both Sides

    Russia-Ukraine War: Claimed Losses on Both Sides
    Jun 12 2026
    A wartime casualty record is always a battleground. This paper collects what each party claims, what open-source investigators have verified, and what Western analysts estimate — without adjudicating between them.
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    16 mins
  • India–France: Seven Decades of Strategic Partnership

    India–France: Seven Decades of Strategic Partnership
    Jun 11 2026
    From early French combat-aircraft purchases to submarines, Rafales, and industrial roadmaps, how two non-aligned powers built one of the world's most durable bilateral partnerships.
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    12 mins
  • Russia and China: Strategic Partnership, Unequal Dependency

    Russia and China: Strategic Partnership, Unequal Dependency
    Jun 9 2026
    How oil, gas, finance, military signaling, and nuclear technology turned a post-Cold War alignment into a durable but asymmetric anti-Western partnership.
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    13 mins
  • Australia's Strategic Ties with Quad Allies: United States, India, and Japan

    Australia's Strategic Ties with Quad Allies: United States, India, and Japan
    Jun 8 2026
    From post-war bilateral alliances to an interlocking architecture spanning defence, nuclear trade, and critical minerals
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    11 mins
  • Erdoğan's Turkey: From Secular Democracy to Islamist Autocracy

    Erdoğan's Turkey: From Secular Democracy to Islamist Autocracy
    Jun 5 2026
    How One Man Dismantled a Republic Over Twenty Years
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    12 mins
  • BRICS and the Multipolar World Order: From Investment Thesis to Geopolitical Bloc

    BRICS and the Multipolar World Order: From Investment Thesis to Geopolitical Bloc
    Jun 3 2026
    How a Goldman Sachs acronym became the institutional framework for the Global South's challenge to US-led unipolarity — and why its internal divisions constrain how far it can go.
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    13 mins
  • Captured: How Europe Lost Its Digital Infrastructure to the United States

    Captured: How Europe Lost Its Digital Infrastructure to the United States
    Jun 2 2026
    From Safe Harbor to Tech Sovereignty — Two Decades of Structural Exposure
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    13 mins