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Lindsey Snell is an American Journalist focused on Turkey's various imperial projects. We talked about the blockade in Artsakh / Nagorno-Karabakh, and the concept of "Western Azerbaijan", among other things. 

Daphne Wesdorp is a dutch photojournalist. We talked about her recent trip to Myanmar where she was covering the ongoing civil war. 

Stephan Adams spent 10 years in the Canadian Armed Forces. We talked about his time as part of the Naval Tactical Operations Group, raiding ships in the Persian gulf, and fighting in the Ukrainian Foreign Legion. To read an abridged version of this interview in Canadian Affairs, go to https://www.canadianaffairs.news/2023/07/18/i-had-all-that-training-i-never-used/

Gev Iskajyan is the director of the Armenian National Committee in Artsakh. We discussed the burtal and intensifying blockade of Artsakh (Nagorno - Karabakh) by the government of Azerbaijan, and the future of the region. 

After a year of silence, American Gopnik is back. We discuss his time as a combat medic in Ukraine, prospects for Wagner in Belarus, and why social media sucks. We also talk about the people he fought with in the Ukrainian Foreign Legion: the good, the bad, and the ugly. 

Toby Miller is a retired Canadian Armed Forces special operations signals specialist. We talked mostly about his recent trip to Peru, where he experimented with Ayahuasca as a treatment for his severe PTSD. At one point, Toby was taking 26 pills a day to deal with his symptoms. Since his trip to Peru, Toby reports a transformed psyche and positive outlook. 

I spoke with Kiwi journalist Tom Mutch about the death of his friend and colleague Arman Soldin. Arman was killed by Russian rocket fire near Bakhmut on may 9th. We reflected on Arman's life and achievements, and on the dangerous nature of the profession. 

Jonathan Wild is an arms researcher and developer from the United States. He's most widely known for creating rocket launchers like the German Fliegerfaust and Panzerfaust. Fin and Jonathan talked about his engineering process, the legality of his craft, the future of handheld anti-tank weapons, and more. 

(recorded on April 19th) Eric Hacopian is an Armenian-American geopolitical analyst that has been living in Yerevan since 2017. Eric has a show on CivilNet named Insights, where he regularly discusses security issues in the South Caucuses. Eric has worked for decades as a democratic political consultant in the United States, and still operates his own firm named EDH & Associates.

Matt Sartin is a retired American marine who fought in Afghanistan and now lives just north of Houston, Texas. Fin talked with him about how vets are dealing with the fallout of America's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, American military support in Ukraine, and more.