A lot of folks are hoping that Yemen’s Houthi government (Ansarallah) will fall like Syria’s Assad did in 2024. They’re going to be disappointed. Today’s podcast covers this quite silly comparison in detail. The accompanying Substack post reveals why I still think the Arab Spring was a step forward.
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Pakistan has kind of always been doomed. It’s a testament to the grit of the country and the savvy of (some) of its leaders that it has survived this long. We discuss Pakistan’s challenges in today’s podcast. But I also wrote on the incredible potential of Pakistan’s region, and why we should pay more attention to it in today’s substack.
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In July Saudi Arabia decided to restart its war with Yemen after four years. By early September it led to disaster. Now that the dust has settled a little, we cover the renewed war in detail in this week’s podcast.
I also put together a quick little rant on the the absurdity of Saudi Arabia and absolute monarchy on Substack…
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We’ve got bigger problems than Trump. Today’s discussion, aided greatly by this fantastic article by Les Coleman, tries to get at some of the larger problems and solutions, as does today’s Substack on Trump lessons and Tax Policy.
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I can’t say it’s surprising, but it needs to be said: Iran is now a forever war. Six months in we cover recent developments, and the sad, under acknowledged fact that there is no solution on the horizon.
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The Rise of Japan was an epic story, but the Japanese military’s victories sowed the seeds of its destruction. In today’s episode we revisit Japan’s wars around the turn of the 20th century, and the way that winning wasn’t really winning.
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The Japan-US relationship is tremendously undervalued. The recent Yen bailout inspired Ruairi and I to attempt to give Japan it’s due.
I also published a substack making the case for Japan being the US’s greatest ally.
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It’s been almost 200 episodes! And I was on vacation last week. So it’s time for a Q&A episode. We start off with a discussion of the recent Michigan election.
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Spain is doing surprisingly well. A week after we recorded the episode above, Morocco’s swamping of one of Spain’s African enclaves with migrants made the news. That didn’t make the episode, but I wrote a substack about it.
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Marco Rubio Probably isn’t silly enough to think he’ll be the next president. Wish we could say the same for the rest of the US establishment.
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