Tyranny Today

# Bhutan and the Himalayan standoff between India and China # India - US technological and military cooperation # France's unexpected "pivot" to Eastern Europe

# Change of mood in Japan # Ukrainian diplomacy in Asia # possible outcomes of the war vs political calendars elsewhere # visiting Taiwan after over 3 years

FOR JAPANESE LISTENERS ＃ ウクライナと台湾の類似点 # 演劇の比喩

# Macron - un idiot utile # geopolitics of currency dominance # geopolitics of technological dominance # foreign policy as a reflection of the domestic system

# problems with containment # territorial expansionism # diplomatic expansionism # credit expansionism

# appeasement # deterrence # deterrence failures

# The experience of collective trauma in repressive regimes # how revisionists exploit the collective trauma # the failure of the Western strategy of cooptation

#Geopolitics as theater, part 2 # Roles played by the UK, Australia, Turkey, India and others

# Theater as a metaphor for conflicts in Europe and Asia # Eerie similarities between the roles played by actors in the two conflicts

# UN vote against Russia # How to analyze Chinese and Russian propaganda # A new role for Ukraine's allies