Podcast Appearance: TFTC
May 5, 2023
I recently spoke with Marty Bent, host of TFTC. We discussed NATO’s ill-fated proxy war in Ukraine, as well as my thoughts on Taiwan, and what the future may hold after all of this.
Listen here: https://tftc.io/tftc-podcast/417/
I promise I’ll be back to writing very soon, but I was fortunate recently to have been invited on a number of podcasts and wanted to share. I’ll be on Geopolitics and Empire in a few days.
Much of what we discussed was derived from the two Substack posts below:
Rubble and Rhetoric
The war in Ukraine could go in one of two directions. I described the first in my last article, “Amateur-Hour Armageddon.” This would be for the West to continue escalating to the point of direct conflict with Russia, potentially ending in nuclear war, in which case all bets are off. The second option is for Russia to win decisively enough to set terms …
Amateur-Hour Armageddon
A little over thirty years ago, a massive US-led coalition assembled in Saudi Arabia for what would become the Gulf War. In retrospect, it’s easy to forget the Iraqi military of this era was one of the largest in the world and possessed formidable air defenses. Serious military projections suggested the invasion to liberate Kuwait could cost tens of tho…
(Slight point of clarification. I was an cryptologic linguist in the US Army, and then worked as a civilian analyst, both in civil service and as a contractor, for many years thereafter. I never had the title “intelligence officer.”)
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