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 Juli 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 Juli 56min
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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Maj 1h 3min
