In the bunker with Darth Putin

Liubov Tsybulska is a hybrid warfare expert and adviser to the Ukrainian government on Russia security and defence production. She came down to the bunker to talk about Russian soft power (spoiler, they actually have it), how they use culture and how they erase identity in areas they occupy, plus a whole lot more. 

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Petro is Head of Center for the Study of the Occupation and former adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol. He came down to the bunker to talk about life in the occupied territories of Ukraine and how Russia erases Ukrainian identity as a part of their occupation strategy. 

Petro on twitter: https://x.com/petpavan

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Phillips O'Brien is a historian and professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. A prolific writer and maker of very accurate predictions on this war came to the bunker to talk about how the war is going, strategy, Trump, China, and whether Europe will step up. 

Phillips Substack: https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/

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The Prez went 1-1 with Minna Ålander who came back to the bunker to discuss the consequences of the new German Chanceller, Ukraine and the great orange elephant in the room. Minna works at Chatham House and CEPA and focuses on NATO, Northern European security and arctic security and also German-Finnish relations and security. 

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We welcomed former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis down to the bunker. He's already been offered tea by the Kremlin and has watch Lavrov slam vodka at a meeting of diplomats. He believes that Europe has not properly woken up to Russia and has not yet made the decisions that are obvious.

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We were joined in the Bunker by former CIA analyst Holly Berkley Fletcher, who spent 19 years working in the CIA’s Africa division. She’s also the author of a book about her experiences growing up as the child of evangelical missionaries in Kenya.

We discuss why so many religious people support a man who has broken nearly all of the Ten Commandments—and more.

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In this special bunker edition, Dr. Jade Selena McGlynn returns to the pod! A British researcher, lecturer, linguist, historian, and author specializing in modern Eastern Europe—particularly Russia—Dr. McGlynn is joining us once again, this time from inside Ukraine. With air raid alarms and power outages as the backdrop, she generously takes a break from her on-the-ground work to dive into Russia’s ideology and, of course, Ukraine.

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Rick Wilson is in the bunker for a second visit. We talk Trump, MAGA, what it might mean for Ukraine, and what Trump really wants.

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This time, we’ve lured military analyst Anders Puck Nielsen, from the Royal Danish Defense College, into the bunker. Anders is also the host of the hugely popular YouTube channel ‪https://www.youtube.com/@anderspuck

We started off feeling a bit gloomy, discussing the future of European security and Ukraine, but managed to cheer each other up along the way. Oh, and Darth is not happy—he claims two of us are stealing his podcast! Anders turns the tables and asks Katie a few questions about Belarus and its role in regional security. Don't miss it!

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Melissa Chan is an Emmy-nominated journalist based between Los Angeles and Berlin. She has reported everywhere from Cuba to Canada, Mongolia to Moscow, North and South Korea.

These days she focuses on transnational issues, often involving China’s influence beyond its borders, as well as the rise of global authoritarianism and ebb of democracies. She is currently writing a graphic novel, YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION, in collaboration with Chinese Australian artist Badiucao. Sold at auction to Street Noise Books (US), the work of speculative fiction is set for publication in early 2025. https://www.melissachan.com/about

This episode was recorded on October 11, so if we sound a little October-ish, that's why. But don’t worry—everything we cover is still as relevant as ever. After all, some things just don’t go out of style, like Putin’s nuclear saber-rattling or Beijing’s geopolitical appetites!

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