Merz Sadist Bends, Bond Villain, Slick Dealing

Remember Olaf Scholz? Just about?

Remember when he sunk to the lowest opinion poll rating in German political history?

Well the good news for anonymous hopeless former Chancellors is that the next beige technocrat in charge of Germany has just beaten his record. Plunging to 89% dissatisfied – with only 11% satisfied.

Even with Macron as the most unpopular President ever, Starmer the least popular Prime Minister, Merz is more unpopular still.

Our lead question this week is very simple: what the flaming fuck is going on in Germany?

Meanwhile, more news just in on Europe’s cordless bungee ride: UK bond yields have spiked again. To 5.3% - the highest rate since 1998.

They can’t go any higher – right?

In the four years since the Truss contagion blew up the markets by hitting 5% and toppled the government, it’s a good thing the UK Treasury used that period to stop running massive deficits… right?

Finally, the global oil market is beginning to resemble Argentina under Kirschner. You’ve got your official prices; and then your real prices. As reality continues to diverge from the markets, we’re asking: who is this mysterious Whale of Hormuz who keeps on fiddling with the international price mechanism?

Of course, this being a pay week, you’ll need to sign up on Patreon or Substack if you want to hear that bit - only the real heads get to dine on the whole hog.

That’s easily done - simply go to Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity) or Substack (https://multipolaritypod.substack.com/) and sign up. It’s 8 or 12 dollars respectively, and you can cancel any time you like….

Denne episoden er hentet fra en åpen RSS-feed og er ikke publisert av Podme. Den kan derfor inneholde annonser.

Episoder(197)

Iran: The Oil Price War With Conventional War Characteristics

This week: two audio essays, on one big Iran cluster-frig. In the Collingwood corner: Donald Trump has become an unreadable politician. His credibility has burst through various levels of ‘madman the...

16 Jul 44min

Slipping and Sliding, Spit and Polish

It’s an oil rush. Fill your boots, fellers, America is releasing its strategic petroleum reserves, ostensibly to see down Iranian pressure. Good news for voters, great news for foreign countries who w...

9 Jul 56min

Pilkington Vs Collingwood: A Multipolarity Q&A Special

This week on Multipolarity, we’re taking your questions.It’s a Q&A episode, involving queries sent in by our loyal listeners.Questions like:How did you guys meet?(Drunk, at a party).Which EU country w...

2 Jul 11min

No Deal Is Better Than An Islama-bad Deal, The Godmother, Two Year Keir

Iran’s 14 points: making the world safe for Shia Theocracy. Obviously, Donald Trump putting his John Hancock to the Islamabad Memorandum at Versailles carries absolutely no historical resonance. But a...

25 Jun 1h 4min

Multipolarity Dialogues: The Other Superweapon - Adventures In Chinese AI, with TP Huang

Fable — a short fantastical tale with a moral message. For weeks, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei was telling anyone who’d listen that he’d invented an AI so powerful it could walk through walls, shoot spar...

18 Jun 53min

Strait To Hell, Kim Jong Boom, Armenian Roulette

It’s war in our time. After flirting with peace for a few miserable hours, the US and Iran are back to what they know best: taking uneven chunks out of each other amidst the world’s prime oil pathway....

11 Jun 1h 5min

Two Audio Essays: The Escalation Ladder & Weaponised Interdependence

This week: two audio essays. First up, they’re calling it the Poor Man’s Tomahawk. Ukraine is firing up to 2000 long range drones a week into Russia. The production facilities supplying them are scatt...

4 Jun 11min

Crossing The Orange Line, Hard Bargain, Sino Silicon

Russia has rained Oreshnik hypersonic missiles on Kiev. Four people killed. 549 missiles apparently shot down. This was a message. The Oreshnik travels at Mach 10. It was designed to deliver nukes. As...

28 Mai 1h 3min