The Western Bubble
By Balder Hageraats & Dario Hasenstab
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Episodes: 150
Description
The West is suffering from the "Western Bubble" and as a result, the world suffers from it as well.
In this podcast, Balder Hageraats and Dario Hasenstab examine how Western countries are increasingly lost in their own delusions on the world stage and what must be done to bring them back to reality.
Understanding and acknowledging this phenomenon is crucial. It allows both Western and non-Western actors to much better navigate the current era of global uncertainty.
🎙️ What we analyse:
• Geopolitics & Global Power Shifts
• Human Rights & Development Aid
• Institutional Decline & Foreign Policy
All analysed strictly through the lens of the Western Bubble.
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Trump's War On Iran #136
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Why the Western Bubble #000.2
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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The End of the World as We Knew It: A Liquidation Sale #135
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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The US National Security Strategy Made us Sick, Literally!
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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The Art of the Surrender: Trump’s 28-Point Plan for Ukraine #134
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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Trump + Venezuela = Iraq in 2003? #133
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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The AI-Bubble vs. the Western Bubble #132
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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The West Cancelled Climate Change #131
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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The Mamdani Mystery #130
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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The Post-Neoliberal Void #129
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Chips, China, and Control #128
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Trump’s Peace in Pieces #127
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Cancel Disney, to Save the West? #126
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Flotilla Makes Israel Sink to New Depths #125
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Charlie Kirk, Gen Z, and the Future of the West #124
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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FRONTEX: Like ICE, but with children's books #123
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Epstein Files, Trump, and the Decline of Complexity #122
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Western Institutional Erosion Accelerates #121
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Trump's Brutal Budget Bomb #120
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Efficiency or Delusion? AI and the Western Bubble #119
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Flooding the Zone and Bombing Iran #118
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Israel, Iran, and the Bomb: Strategic Brilliance or Dangerous Escalation? #117
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Israel Strikes Iran: Who Decides What Counts as War? EXTRA Episode
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Trump vs Los Angeles (and Elon Musk) #116
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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The quasi-Trumps lose in Canada, Australia and Romania #115
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Trump’s New Playbook: Reward, Punish, Repeat #114
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May 28, 2025 |
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Violence & Ceasefires: India, Ukraine & the DRC #113
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May 13, 2025 |
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Lights out for the West? 2025 Iberian Peninsula blackout #112
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May 07, 2025 |
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The West is preparing for WAR #111
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Holy Alliances: Religion’s Role in Foreign Policy Today #110
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Reasonable Answers to the Trump Tariffs? #109
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Tariffs, Tantrums and Transactions: The Art of Understanding Trumpenomics. #108
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Signal failure: the Trump administration going off the rails #107
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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The West Is Fading—Who Will Rule the World in 2050? #106
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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History’s Biggest Mistakes: Are We About to Repeat Them? #105
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Breaking Free: What Europe Must Do in a Post-Atlantic World #104
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Oval Office Fallout – The End of Transatlantic Illusions #103
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Middle East at Boiling Point: Israel, Syria, and the Shadow of Iran #102
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Uncertain Alliances: Europe’s Shift and Trump’s Diplomatic Risks #101
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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100 Episodes, One Western Bubble – A Retrospective #100
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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The Cracks Are Showing: Power, Dysfunction, and the Road to Episode 100 #099
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Trump's Foreign Policy #098
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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End of Year (and the world as we know it) #097
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Immigration in the Western Bubble #96
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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Martial Law in South Korea and the US Health Care System #095
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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The Global Dominoes: Syria, Lebanon, and Georgia #094
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Geopolitics of the Arctic #093
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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From Gaza to Amsterdam: The Stubborn Western Lens #092
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Emotional Comfort post and pre Election Drama #091
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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US (UK) Elections and the Media #090
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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The World without the West #089
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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The Death of Sinwar, Elon Musk and India vs. Canada
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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#087 US Elections, Israel & Iran
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Solutions to the Western Bubble #086
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, the UK & Biden #085
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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The US Supreme Court #084
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Individual Responsibility #083
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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The Fear of War #082
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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European Parliament Elections #081
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Institutional Decline Part III: Who wants to come to the West? #080
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Institutional Decline Part II: Foreign Policy #079
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May 28, 2024 |
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Institutional Decline Part I: University #078
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May 22, 2024 |
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Eurovision Israel Scandal #077
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May 15, 2024 |
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The UK's Rwanda Policy #076
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May 09, 2024 |
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Haiti failed by the West #75
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May 01, 2024 |
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Multinational Corporations in the West #074
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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The Eastern-West #073
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Is the Western Bubble a substitute religion? #072
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Israel's increasing Isolation #071
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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The Role of the Military #070
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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North vs South Europe #069
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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EXTRA: Macron sending troops to Ukraine?
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Two years Ukraine #068
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Donald Trump's Foreign Policy #067
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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The US Republican Party #066
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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The ICJ's Ruling on Israel #65
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Cancel Culture #064
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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The Bubble Awards #63
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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EXTRA Why do young people vote for right-wing populists?
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Dec 16, 2023 |
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Right-Wing Populism #62
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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The Roman Empire #61
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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David Cameron is back! #60
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Global Conflicts we forget about #59
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Israel vs. Hamas 3 #58
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Reconnecting with Venezuela #57
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Global Realignment #56
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Israel vs Hamas 2 #55
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Israel vs Hamas #54
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Sovereignty Trumps Self-determination #53
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Interview with Usama Ghanem #52
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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BRICS and G20 Summits # 51
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Trailer Season 3
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Sweden vs the UN #49
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Hope for the West? #48
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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The Coup in Niger #47
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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The Art of Doing Nothing #46
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Peace in the West #45
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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EXTRA : Simon Tisdall
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Simon Tisdall #44
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Technology and Politics #43
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Jordan Peterson #42
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Symptoms of Western Decay #41
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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EXTRA : Wagner Group
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Free Speech #040
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Georg W. Bush #039
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Samuel Huntington #038
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May 31, 2023 |
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Francis Fukuyama #37
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May 25, 2023 |
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The Middle Class #36
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May 17, 2023 |
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Saudi Arabia #035
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May 10, 2023 |
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EXTRA: Biden and Carlson
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May 02, 2023 |
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EXTRA: Macron China Trip
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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#EXTRA: Pentagon Leaks
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Conspiracy Theories & Externalising Responsibility #034
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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2003 Iraq War #033
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Future of Democracy? #032
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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#Extra Putin and the ICC
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Democratic Bubble #031
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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#EXTRA Saudi-Iran Peace?
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Nuclear (Non-)Proliferation #030
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Nuclear Weapons #029
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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EXTRA Putin leaves START
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Hero Worshipping #028
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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EXTRA Chinese Balloons
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Nordstream Sabotage #027
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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The Problem of Winning History #026
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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End of the Year #025
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Historical Awareness #024
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Social Media #23
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Ukraine: Murder, Sabotage and WWIII #022
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Sick Leave #021
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Last Month in Foreign Policy #020
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Neocolonialism #018
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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The West and Covid-19 #019
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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The United Kingdom, again #017
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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The Wealth Gap #016
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Recap #015
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Western Media Bias #014
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Western Media on Ukraine #013
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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The United Kingdom #012
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Human Rights #011
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Monthly Review #010
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Development Aid from the West #009
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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China and Taiwan #008
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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The Fall of US FP #007
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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The Rise of US FP #006
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Monthly Review #005
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Terrorism and the West #004
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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The hollowing out of institutions #003
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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The Iran Nuclear Deal #002
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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The War in Ukraine #001
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Jul 07, 2022 |