In this episode we look at further developments regarding the Russian withdrawal from Kherson.  Is there a deal with the US?  Or is it actually the case that this war will grind onwards as the US itself is not capable of agreeing on a way forward within the Biden administration?  

We also look at the latest fall out from the midterms and ask would a Theodore Roosevelt type figure be able to emerge with the state of US capitalism today? 

In the concluding part I take a question form a listener regarding why western militaries have shrunk as they have since the 1990s. 

Outro Music is 'Life During Wartime' by Talking Heads 

Episode Artwork is the work 'Hunters' by the Soviet Latvian artist Karlis Dobrais (1973)