Jacob and Marko make a cousins episode happen even as Jacob is moving into a new office and Marko is on the road – at one point he was literally recording from a bathroom at a hotel in Fort Lauderdale because that is the only place he could get WiFi. What other podcast hosts have that kind of dedication? None! This week the cousins tackle Trump’s latest bevy of tariff threats, discuss the improvement in India/China relations, and close with some lessons to learn from the ongoing protests in Serbia.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) – Intro

(03:04) - US Tariffs

(07:42) - Potential Domestic and Global Reactions to Tariffs

(14:17) - Challenges in Renegotiating Trade Deals

(28:58) - India-China Border Disputes and Economic Implications

(32:17) - India and China: Complementary Economies

(44:18) – Serbia/Turkey/Indonesia

(53:59) – Over/under

Jacob and Marko run down the most important issues of the week: Will the U.S. go to war with Iran? Why did President Erdogan arrest his top rival? Is Indonesia helping or hurting itself by courting its military? And is Chinese consumption really happening? From there, they turn to the kind of geopolitical sports analysis that only they can offer, drafting teams of 7 for the top geopolitical sports moments in history.

Timestamps:

(00:00) - Intro

(01:00) - Iran

(31:00) - Turkey

(46:00) – Indonesia

(58:00) – China

(1:09:00) - Geopolitical Draft

The inaugural episode of the Geopolitical Cousins podcast sees Marko and Jacob wax philosophical about net assessments, debate where the Trump administration thinks the world is multipolar, and interrogate what the future of Canada, Europe, and inflation look like in a land of all sticks and no carrots.

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(00:00) - Intro

(00:50) - Approach and Precepts

(11:00) – Net Assessments

(18:44) – Multipolarity

(34:19) – US Exceptionalism, China, and US Fiscal Policy

(42:44) - Canada-US Trade Tensions

(47:42) – Inflation and pain thresholds

(52:27) – Europe's Awakening and Defense Strategies