Why Did U.S. B-1B Bombers Suddenly Leave the UK? | EYES ON GEOPOLITICS

We break down the return of airline hijacking concerns, suspected covert activity around RAF Fairford, drone threats, and a mysterious pneumonic plague death at a Russian research facility. We also dig into the John Chapman/SEAL Team Six controversy, the politics of valor awards, the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, and how American policy reshaped Iran’s influence across the region.
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00:00 – Start
02:12 – Eyes on Pastrami & Opening Banter
02:38 – The Return of Aircraft Hijackings
03:32 – Insider Threats & Pilot Security
05:11 – Copycat Attacks, Radicalization & AI
07:05 – Airline Security After 9/11
08:12 – Lone Wolf or Sponsored Hijacking Plot?
08:52 – What’s Really Happening Around RAF Fairford?
10:06 – How British Counterintelligence Handles Suspected Cells
11:25 – B-1 Bombers Evacuated From RAF Fairford
12:05 – Why Drone Swarms Are So Hard to Stop
13:28 – What the Fairford Threat Says About NATO
14:17 – Is America About to Heavily Regulate Drones?
16:36 – America’s Drone Startup Boom
17:39 – Why U.S. Drone Innovation Is Falling Behind
20:05 – “Escalate to De-escalate” & the Failure of Policy
22:38 – A Pneumonic Plague Death at a Russian Research Facility
24:01 – Russia’s History of Biological Weapons Programs
25:14 – Novichok, Polonium & State Assassinations
27:19 – AI, Microfluidics & the Future of Biological Warfare
29:55 – The John Chapman / SEAL Team Six Controversy
32:15 – Why Is the Chapman Story Coming Back Now?
33:03 – Sorting Through the Roberts Ridge Claims
34:25 – Does John Chapman Deserve the Medal of Honor?
35:56 – The Legal Implications of Challenging the Award
37:08 – The Optics of Attacking a Fallen Medal of Honor Recipient
40:59 – Who Financed the Upcoming Documentary?
42:29 – The Bigger Problem With GWOT Valor Awards
43:56 – The Politics Behind Medal of Honor Awards
45:26 – Revisiting the U.S. Withdrawal From Iraq
45:46 – What Were U.S. Troops Still Doing in Iraq?
46:50 – From Counter-ISIS to Containing Iran
48:20 – Did the Iraq War Make Iran Stronger?
49:43 – The Untold Intelligence War in Syria
50:16 – Timber Sycamore & the CIA’s Syria Program
52:00 – What the Episode Covered
52:23 – Why Sykes-Picot Still Shapes the Middle East
53:30 – SAS Operations in Northern Ireland

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