Multipolarity

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Multipolarity

Charting The Rise Of A Multipolar World Order Philip Pilkington is an unorthodox macroeconomist. Andrew Collingwood is an equally skeptical journalist. Lately, both have realised that - post-Ukraine, post-Afghanistan withdrawal - the old, unipolar, US-led world order is in its death throes. In its wake, something new is being born. But what shape will that take? That will depend on a combustible combination of economics and geopolitics; trade and military muscle. Each week, our duo take three off-radar news stories and explain how each is shaping our multipolar reality.

  1. 5 DAYS AGO

    America Votes, Europe Decides

    At the centre of the Global American empire, a storm is coming. But it’s in the European periphery that the effects will be the most acute.  Can anyone steer a path through the rocks?  We’ll be looking at chaos in the German auto industry - as Volkswagen overruns its cost budget by 20 per cent.   At chaos in the European Union - as a heavily dug-in Von der Leyen regime goes full bunker mentality.  And chaos in merrie ol’ England, as the wet wobbler Keir Starmer brings down the final curtain on the Special Relationship.  Between one world and the next, between a rock and a hard place, it is America that decides, but it is Europe that is going to have to choose a new future.

    5 min

  2. 31 OCT

    Special Episode: Warwick Powell on How To Build A New Global Currency

    After the BRICS meeting in Kazan, a picture of a bundle of fake BRICS banknotes began to circulate online. Right up to a picture of Putin holding one, like a mobster holds a cigar.  The intent was mocking. But while the end goal of the kind of paper that rappers shove into g-strings is still a long way off - in the background, the bureaucratic elves of BRICS were chipping away at the dense, dull, paperwork of a new payments system.  This was never going to be a big bang. More like popping the world’s biggest roll of bubble wrap.  After all, like the nuclear secrets themselves, the mechanism for making a new international method for the settlement of accounts is an obscure and technical thing. And it is eighty years since anyone tried to do it from scratch.  Few people are better placed to be the Robert Oppenheimer to this kind of project than Warwick Powell.  Powell is Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology and the author of "China, Trust and Digital Supply Chains”, and "Dynamics of a Zero Trust World". At his Substack, he blogs about China, trade, and the dense subterranean plumbing network that underlies the global payments system.  This week, he joins us…  to explain how to make a new global currency.  *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter.  https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon.  https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity   Or on our Substack.  https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod

    1h 11m

  3. 24 OCT

    Moldova Joins The Club, Chindia, Keir There And Everywhere

    Moldova has voted to join the EU – A referendum won by less than a single percentage point. It’s less clear when the EU’s citizens get their vote on whether they want to house a very poor, seriously divided, minority-Russian post-Soviet state. Surely this is the moment the eastwards expansion runs aground in the geopolitical reality? Meanwhile, China and India have quietly settled their long-running border dispute in the Himalayas. Far from the recent era where rival troops would run at each other with sticks - or even the notorious 2020 microwaving incident - this bizarre superpower friction seems to have been cleared up inside a few paragraphs. Is this proof positive that the BRICS are turning their attentions outwards? Finally, the story that the Trump campaign has launched a complaint against the British Labour party has spooked the Starmer regime. Staffers campaigning for their Democratic Party cognates seemed like a cute idea and a nice holiday. But if these naive limeys wanted to know how strictly Americans take their electoral laws, they should have dropped a dime to Steve Bannon’s prison cell. Is this the greatest example yet of how the disinformation NGO blob is rapidly destroying its handlers? *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter.  https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon.  https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity   Or on our Substack.  https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod

    55 min

  4. 17 OCT

    Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters, First Come First Serb, Strait Talk

    Oil might be about to fall out of bed, because of an almighty concatenation of the US elections, the Houthis in the Red Sea, the Israelis  striking Iran, and the Iranians striking The Strait of Hormuz. If it pushes toward $300 a barrel, they’ll be laying it down like Chateau Lafite.  Meanwhile, Serbia says it might be joining the BRICS rather than entering the EU. Is it really that important to get away from Croatians? Or is it more to do with the increasingly centripetal force of its Russia relationship? Luckily, Great Power competition in the Balkans has very few bad historical connotations.  Finally, 153 Chinese military aircraft, plus drones and warships encircled Taiwan on Monday, as the Chinese python gave its rebel province a friendly squeeze. But this is more than just another shot across the bows. It’s a clue that far from the Private Ryan D-Day fantasy, the Chinese would choose to take the island by siege. *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter.  https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon.  https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity   Or on our Substack.  https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod

    51 min

  5. 10 OCT

    Special Edition, feat. Malcom Kyeyune: Helene Is A Disaster, The Foam Dome Bursts

    Something a little bit different.  In a crowded news week, we’re bringing you only two stories - but three hosts. Katrina, Sandy, Helene. In the annals of hurricane disasters, the latest storm is looking like it might post a new high score on the leaderboard. But the response has been little short of a new low score from the creaking US federal bureaucracy.  Malcom Kyeyune has been tracking the fallout. He thinks it’s the perfect example of an end of empire US elite prioritising foreign aid over domestic help.  Finally, not long after the bombs fell over Lebanon, the Iranian bombs began to fall over Tel Aviv. And no information blackout could hide the multiple online clips of strikes.  It was fine for Hamas bottle rockets, but now that big regional players are showing their technological hand, the Iron Dome seems more like a porcelain potty.  But beyond the he-said she-said of the Israeli wars. Is there something seismic happening here?  Are we in fact witnessing a massive real-time evolution in the eternal balance between missile defence and missile attack?   ***  Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter.  https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon.  https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our own Substack.  https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod

    59 min

  6. 3 OCT

    The Grand Opening of the Northern Front, The Lebanisation of Lebanon, The Hungaro-Austrian Empire…

    Hezbollah has been decapitated. As the turban falls off Hassan Nasrallah for the final time, we’ll be assessing whether anyone will pick up the crown of Jihad they find lying in the gutter.  Meanwhile, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy is reportedly spending a third of his daily time planning an operation as big as D-Day to resettle displaced Lebanese in Europe.  After the bombs fall, the refugee deluge dawns. After Ukraine, after Syria, can Europe even cope with the latest wave? And what does it say about Lammy that he can plan D-Day with only a third of his time?  Finally, in Austria, the party that spurred Europe’s original Nazi panic, Jorg Haider’s Freedom Party, has come top of a national election, fifteen years after his death.  This should be a moment of high moral drama. But in the year of Geert Wilders and Marine Le Pen, it just feels like today’s deja vu. Are we inured? And should we be?  Of course, what with it being premium week and all, most listeners will be more like a European social democratic party - excluded.  So get it while you can. Or get on Patreon and sign up.  *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter.  https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon.  https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our own Substack.  https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod

    10 min

  7. 26 SEPT

    Special Episode: Philipp Mattheis on Germany's Downward Spiral

    For decades now, Germany has stood as the doughty centurion at the gates of European civilisation. A nation of recyclers, engineers, and a super-sensible, hyper-dull political class.  But since 2022, German exceptionalism has taken a helluva beating. The country has been haemorrhaging its manufacturing base, and with it, the social consensus that lasted more than thirty years is beginning to unwind. What are the long roots of this crisis? This week, The Lads are joined by Philipp Mattheis to discuss Germany's downward spiral. And its future. Today, the trains literally do not run on time. So with the rise of the AfD, will the country soon hire a leader who can make those trains run on time?  ***  Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter.  https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon.  https://www.patreon.com/multipolarity Or on our own Substack.  https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod

    1h 5m

  8. 19 SEPT

    NATO's New Secretary General, The Youth In Asia, The Weeks Of The Jackal

    There’s a changing of the guard at NATO. Down comes the regimental banner of Jens Stoltenberg. Eyes right, salute, the former Dutch PM Mark Rutte. Some say the Treaty Organisation has never been more relevant. But is that a bit like the man who jumps from the 23rd floor still looking very well as he passes the 3rd floor?  Meanwhile, a new OBR forecast accuses pensioners of placing too much burden on the British treasury - tripling the national debt by mid-century. At the same time, The Labour government is fast-tracking euthanasia through parliament. Is Killer Keir’s latest economic strategy just The Day of the Pillow?  Finally, there hasn’t been a Trump assassination attempt in at least forty eight hours. Unless there has by now - in which case please ignore this message. What does the never-ending conga line of would-be nation-destabilisers say about the health of the US polity? *** Be excellent to each other, and - Get us on Twitter.  https://www.x.com/multipolarpod On Patreon.  www.patreon.com/multipolarity   Or on our own Substack.  https://substack.com/@multipolaritypod

    1h 1m
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Charting The Rise Of A Multipolar World Order Philip Pilkington is an unorthodox macroeconomist. Andrew Collingwood is an equally skeptical journalist. Lately, both have realised that - post-Ukraine, post-Afghanistan withdrawal - the old, unipolar, US-led world order is in its death throes. In its wake, something new is being born. But what shape will that take? That will depend on a combustible combination of economics and geopolitics; trade and military muscle. Each week, our duo take three off-radar news stories and explain how each is shaping our multipolar reality.

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