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CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski

Claire Berlinski, Dan Perry

Analysis of geopolitics, economy, and society, mostly by Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski. Supporting reason, culture and the liberal order now beset from all sides. claireberlinski.substack.com

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17:18

'Round the Globe with John and Claire

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2024/03/12

Here it is: The long-awaited report. This annual report of worldwide threats to the national security of the United States responds to Section 617 of the FY21 Intelligence Authorization Act (Pub. L. No. 116-260). This report reflects the collective insights of the Intelligence Community (IC), which is committed every day to providing the nuanced, independent, and unvarnished intelligence that policymakers, warfighters, and domestic law enforcement personnel need to protect American lives and

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22:04

'Round the Globe with John and Claire

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2024/03/11

Show notes:* India joins the elite list of nations with test of Agni-V MIRV tech* Mission Divyastra: What Agni-5 missile with MIRV tech can do* Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan: self-reliant India* Why “poverty first, moon next” is an absurd argument* IAEA: Iran is “not entirely transparent” on its atomic program* West concerned over Iranian nuclear bomb in IAEA meeting* Too close for comfort: Cases of near-nuclear use and options for policy* Twenty mishaps that might have started accidental nuclear war*

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21:24

'Round the Globe with John and Claire

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2024/03/08

We have a name! This podcast will from now on be called ‘Round the Globe with John and Claire. We like it because it’s simple and it says what it’s about. From now on you’ll receive ‘Round the Globe with John and Claire every weekday. It’s a bonus, not a substitute for any of the other things we do. We’d love it if you subscribed:What’s your verdict so far? How can we improve it?The show notes are interleaved among the other articles, below. I’ve appended GLOBAL EYES to the podcast because these

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18:46

The Short Podcast, with a Vlad Davidzon Cameo

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2024/03/07

Today’s discussion:* Vladislav Davidzon joins us to give us the expert view on Transnistria. The situation sounds more minatory than John and I initially thought: There may be a purpose to the provocation that goes beyond, “distracting NATO.” * Welcome, Sweden! * Boo, Germany! What’s wrong with you? * The Sudan catastrophe is apocalyptic, no one has the bandwidth to deal with it, and now Russia, Iran, and Ukraine are involved, too.* It’s Vlad’s birthday! Happy Birthday, Vlad! This is a public

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13:25

The No-Name-yet Podcast with Claire and John

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2024/03/06

We still have no name. I’m getting worried about this. Sorry, Scott! Not only did I blank on your last name—it came back to me, at least!—we just didn’t love the name you suggested. We’re looking for something that clearly explains what it is and why you should listen to it in about two catchy and clever words. (I like the name “GLOBAL EYES,” for example, because it tells you what it is and it’s a pun.)TRANS-NISS-TRIA (Say it three times fast: I challenge you.)* WARNING: Transnistria may organize a

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16:42

The yet-unnamed, very brief, Claire Berlinski and...

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2024/03/05

My father didn’t understand what a “Cosmoberjoxlicast” was, and who can blame him? Pop, it’s short for the Cosmopolitan Globalist Claire Berlinski and John Oxley podcast, but just a placeholder until we think of something perfect, catchy, and memorable. A month of the Cosmopolitan Globalist on the house to the reader who comes up with a name that makes both of us immediately say, “Yes! That’s perfect.”We discovered today that twenty minutes isn’t a long time. We had a long list of things we wanted

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13:34

Introducing the Cosmoberjoxlicast

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2024/03/04

The title is just for now. Until we think of a better one. Give it a try. It’s only twenty minutes. It’s an experiment. We’re thinking that if you like this—or if you can imagine liking it, if we make it better in some (achievable and realistic) way—we’ll do it daily. We figured we could both spare about twenty minutes every day to talk about the global news stories that stand out most to us. So today, we talked about Germany’s OpSec Screwup of the Century and Haiti’s descent into even more total

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50:03

What Ukraine's defeat would mean for the US and the...

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2024/01/25

While you’re at it, read every word of this analysis for RUSI:It is obvious that if Ukraine loses support from the West, Putin may well achieve his goal of destroying Ukrainians as a people and erasing the largest country from the map of Europe. Despite the obvious tragedy of this situation for Ukraine, the consequences of its defeat for the West and especially for the US as the leader of the free world would be no less catastrophic. …Every word of the analysis is correct. We’re on the edge of the

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59:36

🚨 It's the David Berlinski Cosmopolicast! 🚨

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2023/12/05

I’ve been trying to persuade my Pop to come on the Cosmopolicast for three years, but every time I’ve asked, he’s turned up his nose. “A podcast? You mean with those stupid earmuffs?” (Joe Rogan, I suspect, had soured him on the idea that a podcast is a suitable venue for a civilized man.)“Those are headphones, Pop. You don’t have to wear those.”“I think not,” he replied, and returned to his contemplation of monoids. He had studied the Internet. He did not care for these new-fangled podcasts. I

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74:39

The Claire and Vladislav Cosmopolicast

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2023/09/27

Vladislav Davidzon has for almost a decade been one of the most acute observers of the Ukrainian–Jewish relationship and of the place of Ukrainian Jewry within a developing political nation. His stylish reportage has been invaluable for understanding the dynamics of the Jewish Ukraine in a historical moment. This volume will surely enter the canon as an important document for anyone who wishes to understand this moment.—Wolf MoskovichA masterful chronicler of the real odyssey of the Ukrainian Jew

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88:18

The Claire and Vladislav Cosmopolicast

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2023/08/29

Claire—I think you’ll find this was an especially interesting conversation. I’ve included a transcript for those of you who don’t like listening to podcasts, but I particularly recommend listening to this one. CB: This is the Cosmopolitan Globalist and I’m Claire Berlinski, the host, and Vladislav Davidzon is my dear friend, neighbor as well, who is now Ukrainian. He is married to a Ukrainian woman. He was born in Tashkent, emigrated to the United States at the age of seven. So he is an authentic

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52:11

The Vladislav Davidzon Cosmopolicast

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2023/06/10

Please join me in lavishly thanking our reader Michael Greenspan for donating his time today to helping me edit this podcast. I’m so grateful for the favor, and you will be too when you listen without hearing Vladislav and me ask each other repeatedly, “Are you still there? Still there?”To follow along, I recommend looking at the Ukraine Livemap, which is an invaluable resource for visualizing the war and following the news in real time:Here’s Vladislav’s book: From Odessa with Love: Political and

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47:21

Is the AI control problem insoluble?

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2023/06/04

“ … unfortunately we show that the AI control problem is not solvable and the best we can hope for is safer AI, but ultimately not 100 percent safe AI, which is not a sufficient level of safety in the domain of existential risk as it pertains to humanity.”Roman Yampolskiy is a computer scientist and professor at the Speed School of Engineering at the University of Louisville who works on genetic algorithms, neural networks, artificial intelligence, and the alignment problem.Our conversation

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63:01

Ukraine and the Iraq War

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2023/03/21

Like yesterday’s essay by Tecumseh Court—Year Zero—this Cosmopolicast with Vladislav Davidzon considers the war in Ukraine in the context of the Iraq war. For those of you who don’t like podcasts, I’ve provided an (imperfect) transcript below.Claire: Hi, it’s Claire with the Cosmopolitan Globalist, and this is the Cosmopolicast. We have Vladislav Davidzon with us again. Welcome, Vladislav.Cat: Meow.Claire: That was my cat. Vladislav: Yes, I don’t meow like that cat. Although I still have some of the

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68:37

The Cosmopolicast with Peter Zeihan

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2023/02/16

Note: This is not new! You’ve probably heard this already. I’ve republished it because the original version wasn’t showing up on people’s feeds. (If you haven’t heard this already, though, it’s great. Peter Zeihan was such a good sport.) This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit claireberlinski.substack.com/subscribe

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74:18

The Davidzon Cosmopolicast

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2023/01/28

Thank you to everyone who sent questions for Vlad and Regina. They were good questions. We decided to answer them in a podcast today because I was just exhausted last night—I hadn’t slept at all the night before. My three-legged cat slept like a log, but every time she yawned, stretched, purred, chuffed, or snored, I bolted awake, worried she’d split open at the seams or toppled headfirst into her water bowl. So I threw my guests out after dessert and told them we’d record the answers in the

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101:24

The uprising in Iran

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2022/10/11

I was looking today for good articles explaining exactly what’s happening in Iran, and growing increasingly frustrated because I couldn’t find any—even though it’s obvious that what’s happening is massively significant. So I asked Shay Khatiri to come on the Cosmopolicast to help me make sense of what’s happening there. Shay’s an immigrant to the United States from Iran who studied Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies—but you’ll learn all about

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70:29

"The West doesn't realize how much danger it's in."

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2022/09/22

Some of you have asked me to put our podcasts on the RSS feed. I thought that happened automatically, but apparently it doesn’t. I think—but I’m not sure—that if I post the podcasts under the “Podcasts” tab, they’ll show up on the RSS feed. I’m trying this today with our first podcast with Dina Khapaeva, which I initially published along with this article: * The West doesn’t realize how much danger it’s in: Dugin, The Third Empire, the Cult of Stalin, Neo-Medievalism, and the Sources of Russian

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69:52

The Ukrainian literature podcast

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2022/05/03

Vladislav Davidzon was in Odessa last week. He at last managed to persuade his elderly father-in-law, a salty old sailor, to abandon the hooch in his garage and leave for Romania with him. When we spoke to them last night, they’d just finished the exhausting sixteen-hour journey from Odessa by taxi, ferry, bus, taxi, and train. Volunteers at the border told them they were the first refugees they’d seen carrying their art collection. Vladislav has been doing superb reporting from Ukraine recently

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74:32

The view from Ukraine

CRITICAL CONDITIONS with Dan Perry and Claire Berlinski ·

2022/02/12

Yesterday we spoke to Vladislav Davidzon and Olga Tokariuk in Kyiv. You can download the podcast here or at the Cosmopolitan Globalist. More by Vladislav at the Cosmopolitan Globalist: LENINFALL AND THE GREAT DANEThe story of the Viking who defeated the Odessa mafia and erected a runestone.ON MOSCOW’S OBJECTIVESUkrainian leaders visited Washington, D.C. The CIA and the Department of Defense gave them private briefings. They emerged deeply shaken.WHAT MANAFORT’S PARDON TAUGHT USUkrainians may be

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