Global Risk Profile by Tamuz Itai

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Global Risk Profile – Analyzing Geopolitics & Global Risks 🌍 We are your guide to understanding the most critical stories shaping our world, whether they’re dominating the news cycle or flying under the radar. We break down major geopolitical events, security risks, economic shifts, and power struggles, giving you clear, in-depth analysis of their global impact. Our approach is simple: ✅ Tell the facts – What happened and why it matters. ✅ Analyze the story – Uncover the deeper trends and hidden forces at play. ✅ Show the global impact – Explain how these events shape economies, policies, and lives worldwide. 📅 Two episodes every week – covering important global developments in an engaging, conversational format. Whether you're a policymaker, investor, analyst, or simply someone who wants to understand the world better, Global Risk Profile delivers the insights you need. 🔔 Subscribe now and stay ahead of global risks and opportunities.

  1. 5H AGO

    Trump, China, and the Collapse of Global Equilibrium

    For decades, globalization was treated as a self-correcting system. Markets would integrate. Trade would expand. Political systems would converge. But what if the equilibrium was more fragile than we believed? Following Episode 1, in Episode 2 of this 2-part series, we zoom out. The domestic tensions we discussed previously did not emerge in isolation — they were shaped by a global transformation that accelerated after the Cold War. Capital became mobile. Labor remained local. Manufacturing relocated. Asset prices inflated. Welfare systems expanded to absorb the shock. The system didn’t collapse, it adapted. But adaptation came with imbalance. We examine: • How China’s WTO entry reshaped global production • Why integration rewarded asymmetry • The divergence between Wall Street and Main Street • Why actors like Donald Trump didn’t create the rupture — but revealed it • Why adjustment is structural, not ideological • The economic, political, and psychological cost of “rewind” • And why the final question isn’t technical — but moral This episode explores the difference between integration and dependency, efficiency and resilience, prosperity and fragility. Because when interdependence outruns resilience, adjustment isn’t optional. It’s only delayed. And the outcome will depend less on policy brilliance — and more on discernment. Content: 00:00 The Global Shift 04:49 Actors Under Pressure 08:24 The Price of Adjustment 12:33 Discernment

    16 min
  2. JAN 15

    Venezuela, Iran—and a New Way the U.S. May Be Confronting China

    Did the U.S. just signal a new way of confronting China—without confronting China directly? In early January 2026, two developments stood out as not business as usual: the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in a U.S. military operation, and unusually explicit U.S. warnings to Iran amid nationwide protests and a violent crackdown. Individually, each event can be explained on its own terms. Taken together, they raise a larger question. In this episode of Global Risk Profile, we explore a hypothesis: that the United States may be shifting away from endless crisis management—and toward a strategy of sequenced isolation, gradually dismantling the network of proxy crises, aligned regimes, and distraction nodes that have long diluted Western focus while China advanced quietly elsewhere. This is an attempt to understand the logic that could explain them—and the risks that logic carries. In this episode: * Why the Maduro operation and Iran warnings don’t look impulsive * How real-world strategy works: optionality, timing, and preparation * The “distraction economy” and how China has benefited from chronic global crises * What it means to “roll up the board” without direct confrontation * Downstream effects: Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and interconnected proxy systems * The risks of forcing clarity instead of managing chaos * What evidence would confirm—or falsify—this hypothesis in the months ahead As always, the goal is discernment: seeing structure without inventing certainty. Chapters: 00:00 Not Business as Usual 03:43 What Strategy Looks Like in the Real World 06:54 The Distraction Economy 08:46 A Shift in How the Board Is Being Read 11:17 Rolling Up the Board (The Hypothesis) 14:45 The Risks of Clearing the Board 17:27 What Would Make This Real About Global Risk Profile: Global Risk Profile examines geopolitics, power, and strategy through history, incentives, and moral clarity—without ideological shortcuts. If you find this analysis useful, consider subscribing and sharing.

    20 min
  3. 12/29/2025

    Cambodia's Border Camps Aren't Just Scam Centers —There is Evidence They're Organ Harvesting Hubs

    What is the dark truth behind the "telephone scam" centers at the Thailand-Cambodia border? In this episode of Global Risk Profile, biomedical scientist and former US Army microbiologist Dr. Sean Lin reveals a chilling shift in transnational crime. Beyond the financial fraud, a state-sanctioned organ harvesting "franchise" is reportedly being exported across Southeast Asia and the Belt and Road Initiative. From illegal procurement logs discovered on a surgeon’s computer to the FBI’s recent sanctions against the Prince Holding Group, we dive deep into the evidence of an industry that treats human bodies as disposable "materials." In this podcast, you will learn: * The connection between Cambodia’s "scam camps" and high-level Chinese hospitals. * How the "franchise" model is spreading to countries like Nigeria and the Middle East. * The digital evidence showing organs are being harvested from living victims "to order." * What the US Senate can do now via the Falun Gong Protection Act. 🔗 RESOURCES MENTIONED: The Falun Gong Protection Act (H.R. 4132): https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/817/text Consilium Institute: https://consiliuminstitute.org IPAC Model Legislation on Organ Harvesting: https://www.ipac.global/news/international-lawmakers-unite-at-ipac-summit-unveiling-coordinated-action-to-safeguard-human-rights-and-regional-security ABOUT THE GUEST: Dr. Sean Lin is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Science and a former US Army microbiologist. With over 20 years of experience tracking human rights atrocities and biomedical ethics violations in China, he currently serves as the Executive Director of the Consilium Institute in New York. SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: 🔔 Subscribe for more deep-dives into global risks and geopolitical security. 💬 Comment below: Did you know about the connection between scam centers and medical centers? 📢 Share this video to raise awareness. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction of Scam Camps in Cambodia 02:01 Actually There's Evidence of Organ Harvesting 05:38 Connection to Chinese Hospitals 07:29  Luo Shuaiyu, doctor thrown of a building, family reveals evidence 10:25 "Meat Market" mentality among doctors 11:57 CCP Influence in Cambodia 12:51 China Organ Harvesting first revealed in 2006 14:31 Sean Lin resume 16:37 2025 Guangzhou Organ Donation Conference - declaring it big business 17:22 Putin and Xi hot mic moment from the summer 18:38 The Erosion of Ethics of Medical Doctors in China 19:31 History of organ harvesting in China 20:51 Exporting the model worldwide 21:31 Complicit International organizations 23:20 Deceiving Patients' families 24:14 Abuse of Regenerative Medicine in China 27:42 Evidence of Cambodia Organ Harvesting 30:11 Evidence of Organ Harvesting in Nigeria 31:37 China Exporting Organ Harvesting Business 34:16 Students Disappearing in China, suspected kidnap for organ harvesting 35:31 Consilium Think Tank, Sean Lin Executive Director 38:17 Pending Legislation in US Congress 41:24 This Should be a Bipartisan Issue #GlobalRisk #OrganHarvesting #HumanRights #Cambodia #Geopolitics #DrSeanLin #FalunGongProtectionAct #TrueCrimeInvestigation

    45 min
  4. 12/25/2025

    The Hidden Logic Behind the Housing Crisis

    Why have housing prices risen across so much of the Western world — even in countries with low population growth, different political systems, and decades of technological progress that made most other goods cheaper? In this episode of Global Risk Profile, we start with a provocative essay arguing that the housing market isn’t “broken,” but shaped by incentives. That claim turns out to be partially right — and far more revealing than it first appears. From there, we widen the lens. We explore how housing quietly shifted from shelter to financial asset, how monetary policy and debt changed the role of savings, why demographics failed to bring relief, and how rising home prices can enrich individuals on paper while weakening families across generations. Along the way, we look at: * Why housing doesn’t behave like other goods in a tech-driven economy * How asset inflation absorbed many of the gains from cheaper consumer products * Why low savings and high leverage force people into speculation * The growing role of institutional investors — and what that really signals * Why some households experience the system as fragile while others see opportunity Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:30 Shelter Becomes Asset 04:48 Monetary Gravity 07:14 Savings Collapse and Forced Leverage 08:57 Why Demography Didn't Fix It 10:47 The Family Balance Sheet Illusion 12:33 Two Operating Regimes 16:03 Riding the Tiger 18:00 Discernment

    20 min
  5. 12/22/2025

    The Shocking Truth About MAID in Canada!

    Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program began as a narrow, compassionate response to terminal illness. Today, it has become one of the most permissive assisted-dying regimes in the world. In this episode of Global Risk Profile, we trace how MAID evolved—from a tightly controlled end-of-life exception into a system shaped by legal logic, institutional incentives, healthcare scarcity, and bureaucratic drift. We examine real cases, court decisions, and policy changes that expanded eligibility beyond terminal illness, and ask a harder question: what happens when assisted dying becomes easier to access than housing, treatment, or long-term care? We explore: * How MAID started, and why lawmakers believed it would remain rare * Why legal and institutional incentives pushed the program far beyond its original scope * Documented cases where MAID was suggested to vulnerable individuals * A global comparison: how the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Australia, South Korea, Switzerland, and the Netherlands draw very different lines * The concept of “soft eugenics”: not ideology or conspiracy, but systems quietly steering certain lives toward exit because support is hard and expensive * Why civilizations across history have treated suicide with extreme caution—and where modern policy may be losing its moral guardrails This episode is not about accusing individuals of bad intentions. It’s about understanding how good intentions collide with real-world incentives—and why outcomes, not motives, ultimately matter. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 02:14 The Narrow Promise That Couldn't Stay Narrow 04:19 What Expansion Looks Like 06:08 When Systems Stop Fighting for Certain Lives 09:22 The Moral Landscape

    13 min
  6. 12/19/2025

    Sovereignty Has a Cost | The New Global Reality

    This episode examines the origins of the post-1945 international order, born from the trauma of two world wars and the imperative to avoid uncontrolled escalation. It explores how the architects of this system adopted a pragmatic approach to establish a new liberal order. We discuss the role of diplomacy and foreign policy in shaping global stability, particularly from the perspective of the United States, after World War Two. For decades, that system worked. Not perfectly — but well enough to reduce great-power war and stabilize a shattered world. But it also rested on a quiet assumption: that power, fear, and survival — the forces that had governed human affairs for millennia — could be permanently subordinated to rules, norms, and institutions. That assumption is now breaking, and the new National Security Strategy seems like a clear indicator of this. In this episode, we explore: * Why the post-1945 international order succeeded — and where it overreached * The forgotten historical rule that legitimacy depends on governance, not declarations * Why conflicts like Ukraine, Taiwan, and Israel expose limits in international law * How demands for greater allied self-defense mark a return to responsibility * What the new U.S. National Security Strategy reveals about a thinner, more honest order * And why history’s oldest pattern — hubris followed by nemesis — is reasserting itself This is not an argument for abandoning international law. It’s an argument for understanding its limits. Law can restrain power — but it cannot replace it. Sovereignty has a cost. Peace must be maintained, not assumed. And history can be managed — but never erased. What comes next will be more demanding than the world we grew used to. Global Risk Profile explores geopolitics through history, incentives, and first principles — not ideology. Facts first. Patterns second. Judgment last.   Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 03:02 What the System Replaced 07:58 Where the Post-1945 Order Overreached 11:38 When Law Meets Existential Reality 14:54 When Consistency Keeps Failing 16:37 Strategy Catches Up to Reality  - The National Security Strategy 19:37 The Return of Responsibility 21:47 Hubris and Nemesis: The Old Pattern Returns 23:57 Recalibrating First Principles

    27 min

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Global Risk Profile – Analyzing Geopolitics & Global Risks 🌍 We are your guide to understanding the most critical stories shaping our world, whether they’re dominating the news cycle or flying under the radar. We break down major geopolitical events, security risks, economic shifts, and power struggles, giving you clear, in-depth analysis of their global impact. Our approach is simple: ✅ Tell the facts – What happened and why it matters. ✅ Analyze the story – Uncover the deeper trends and hidden forces at play. ✅ Show the global impact – Explain how these events shape economies, policies, and lives worldwide. 📅 Two episodes every week – covering important global developments in an engaging, conversational format. Whether you're a policymaker, investor, analyst, or simply someone who wants to understand the world better, Global Risk Profile delivers the insights you need. 🔔 Subscribe now and stay ahead of global risks and opportunities.