by Cameron | May 6, 2022 | Podcast, Premium-Feed
data-episode-id="990348" data-theme="light" data-height="190" data-enable-volume="true"> I was musing, in the last episode, about whether or not sanctions have ever worked. Are they even legal? Over the last two decades, international economic sanctions have become a...
by Cameron | Apr 26, 2022 | Podcast, Premium-Feed
data-episode-id="986267" data-theme="light" data-height="190" data-enable-volume="true"> The war continues, 60 plus days. The US and EU and their allies, eg Australia, continue to “support” Ukraine by giving them some kind of military aid. But the question is whether...
by Cameron | Mar 22, 2022 | Podcast, Premium-Feed
data-episode-id="973068" data-theme="light" data-height="190" data-enable-volume="true"> Today we talk about “Offensive Realism”, the theory put forward by John Mearsheimer in his 2001 book “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics”, and how it might...
by Cameron | Feb 25, 2022 | Podcast, Premium-Feed
data-episode-id="962402" data-theme="light" data-height="190" data-enable-volume="true"> Yesterday Putin announced he was starting a “special military operation” in Ukraine. He said his goal was to “demilitarize” but not occupy the country, and that any countries that...
by Cameron | Feb 11, 2022 | Podcast, Premium-Feed
data-episode-id="957142" data-theme="light" data-height="190" data-enable-volume="true"> If you only get your news from the mainstream media, you’ve probably heard that the world’s about to end because of “Russian aggression”. Of course, as...
by Cameron | Dec 17, 2021 | Podcast, Premium-Feed
data-episode-id="940494" data-theme="light" data-height="190" data-enable-volume="true"> Lots of stuff in this episode about Assange, China, Russia and Christianity, but the main theme is a theory I’ve been trying to flesh out about how tribalism and identity converge...
by Cameron | Dec 3, 2021 | Podcast, Premium-Feed
data-episode-id="935784" data-theme="light" data-height="190" data-enable-volume="true"> The Russians attack Amin’s palace without him realising what is happening. He still thinks they are on his side, right up until the moment they put a bullet in him. But...
by Cameron | Nov 20, 2021 | Podcast, Premium-Feed
data-episode-id="930439" data-theme="light" data-height="190" data-enable-volume="true"> Continuing on from our last episodes about Afghanistan, we look at the first days of the Russian invasion in December 1979 and dispel some common myths about the Soviet’s...
by Cameron | Oct 29, 2021 | Podcast, Premium-Feed
data-episode-id="922078" data-theme="light" data-height="190" data-enable-volume="true"> Part two of our look at the history of American involvement in Afghanistan since the late 1970s. We continue the story of the internal collapse of the PDPA’s power in 1979,...
by Cameron | Oct 22, 2021 | Podcast, Premium-Feed
data-episode-id="919529" data-theme="dark" data-height="190" data-enable-volume="true"> In the aftermath of the US finally removing its troops from Afghanistan, it’s time we take look at the history of American involvement in that part of the world and try to...
