WTH is the Biden Administration Undermining The Ukrainian Counteroffensive? General Jack Keane Explains
This summer, several articles aired in mainstream media outlets citing unnamed individuals from the Pentagon, and criticizing the speed and tactics of the Ukrainian counteroffensive. These critiques a...
6 Sep 20231h 14min
WTH Should I Read This Summer? Best Things First by Bjorn Lomborg
It may not come as a surprise that in much of the developed world, money spent is not necessarily money used well. We have done podcasts on the ideological and political dangers of bad development pol...
30 Aug 202342min
WTH Should I Read This Summer? Spies: The Epic Intelligence War between East and West by Calder Walton
Little known fact: the intelligence war between the East and the West started long before 1945. And not only that; it did not end with the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 90s either. Indeed, this ...
23 Aug 202348min
WTH Should I Read This Summer? The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink by Will Inboden
The What the Hell crew continues our summer reading series! Our next pick is The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink. The Peacemaker’s focus is Ronald Reagan’s foreign ...
16 Aug 202341min
WTH Should I Read This Summer? Chip War by Chris Miller
This August, the What the Hell crew brings you a summer reading series! Our first pick is Chip War, a book the NYT hailed as a cross between Mission Impossible and the China Syndrome. Nominally, this ...
9 Aug 202347min
WTH Do Republicans Really Think About Foreign Policy? Roger Zakheim Explains
With the incessant politicization of real foreign policy issues, sometimes it is helpful to go back to the numbers. And in this case, the numbers are detached from the reality that anti-Ukraine Republ...
2 Aug 202346min
WTH is Neocolonialist Environmentalism? Todd Moss Explains
One of America's greatest engines of growth is fossil fuels – cheap, reliable energy that jumpstarted the industrial revolution and paved the way for the security and prosperity we enjoy today. Others...
26 Jul 202348min
WTH Did Biden Blow It on NATO and Ukraine? Ambassador Kurt Volker Explains
Last week at the NATO summit in Lithuania, the world watched as Ukraine was denied an actionable plan for membership in the alliance. It was almost a rinse and repeat from 2008, when Ukraine and Georg...
19 Jul 202354min
