Vladimir Putin
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Xi, Putin and Pezeshkian Walk Into Delhi
X.T.M reads the BRICS summit in Delhi, with Xi, Putin and Pezeshkian present during a US blockade of Iran, as the West’s non-Western partners rerouting around it. He sees BRICS…
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A Deleted Tweet Just Moved the Oil Price 17%. Welcome to the New World.
X.T.M uses the oil price shock after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, including a deleted US Energy Secretary tweet that moved prices 17 percent, to argue the global…
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Friendship in a time of evil
Razib Khan asks why the West focuses on Ukraine rather than Yemen, where he says nearly 100,000 children have starved, and argues that claims of a unique humanitarian crisis are…
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Russian Invasion of Ukraine, part 1
Omar Ali, Amey and Conrad talk to Karol Karpinski about the Ukraine crisis from an Eastern European perspective, as a counterpoint to the earlier Major Amin recording that presented a…
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Browncast: Major Amin on the Ukraine Crisis
On the day Russia launched its military operation against Ukraine, Omar Ali talks with Major Amin, who has long ties to Afghanistan and Russia, about the geopolitical rivalry between the…
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Browncast: Major Amin on the Ukraine Crisis
On the day Russia launched its operation, Omar talks to military historian Major Amin, whose frank, pro-Russian framing the host says probably reflects Putin’s or Russian nationalists’ own thinking. Listeners…
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A Few Questions re Trumpistan..
Posing questions on Trump’s America, the author argues Trump and his advisers truly believe the United States is in a fight to the death with Islam, with Putin as ally,…
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The Christian Brotherhood
The poster argues the rise of a ‘Christian Brotherhood’ draws little comment compared with its Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist counterparts, citing church positions on abortion, anti-gay laws in Uganda, Putin’s…
