What is the petrodollar? The USD? The dollar regime? What are sanctions? How do sanctions work? What are secondary sanctions? Is the Dollar hegemony over? What can replace it? What is the Bretton Woods agreement of 1944? How is the dollar used as a weapon?

#Dollar

#USD

#Petrodollar

#Dollar regime

#Sanctions

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The troubled history of Iraq since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Look at the chaos of the years after the collapse of the Ottomans. European/ British and US interventions. Oil. Saddam, War. Blood, oil and tears

#Iraq

#War

#Oil

#Ottomans

#Arab

#Saddam Hussain

#Gulf War

#Sanctions

#Terrorism

Covers over 100 years of history.

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What is the Korean Demilitarized Zone? How did it come to be? What is the history? Who are the major players to this endless - now over 75yr - conflict.

#Korea

#South Korea

#North Korea

#USA

#Japan

#China

#Russia

#Geopolitics

#History

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What is civilization/ civilisation? Who are the civilised? Are you civilized? Or are you uncivil? How do you KNOW someone is civilised? These questions and more. Make sure to sign up, subscribe and LIKE on your platform of choice...

#Civillization

#Civillisation

#History

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How old is racism? What is Racism? Who is a racist? What are the origins of racism? What is scientific racism and eugenics? Podcast explores if you are a racist!

#Race

#Racism

#History

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The future?? Doctor Who, Back to the Future, Metropolis, The Bible... what does the history of the future look like and my 3 predictions for the next 25 years.... up to 2047.

#Future

#Fiction

#Science Fiction

#Movies

#Cinema

#History

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Pakistan had a really messy foreign policy. It borders India, Afghanistan, Iran and China. Pakistan has really bad press. Why is that? Pakistan has been accused of state-sponsored terror. Why is that? What drives its foreign policy? Can it be improved? .....

#Pakistan

#Foreign Policy

#International relations

#India

#History

#Afghanistan

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What is a Sphere of Influence? What is a Buffer State? What are these in relation to the Russian Federation? Do other countries have spheres of influence and what in hell does it mean to be a buffer state?

#Russia

#Ukraine

#Georgia

#NATO

#History

#Buffer State

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What is Pax Americana? Was there an American peace? What is it like being a Hyperpower? How did the US become a unipolar hegemony? How did t behave as the hegemon? and how on earth did it lose that position?

#Geopolitics

#USA

#Hyperpower

#Hegmony

#History

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History of political parties. How they started. How they function. Systems of party systems. Also, look at the TOP FIVE most important political parties on the planet!!!

#History

#Politics

#Government

#Party Politics

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