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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

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54:24

Milei Down and Die, Tears of a Clown, Very Stable...

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2025/07/10

In a viral video clip, tantric sex expert Javier Milei once said that he only makes love once every three months. Let’s see if he goes to the IMF any more regularly. In the wake of an enormous bailout, we’ll be busting some myths on the grand schemes of Captain Ancap.Meanwhile, in Britain, the finance minister is crying in Parliament, and the Prime Minister is too socially awkward to comfort her. At least Milei made the cuts first; and then went to the lender of last resort after. What happens when

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48:53

The Twelve Day War, 5 Percent? Get Bent, Dead Dollar...

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2025/07/03

Nothing Ever Happens. Or does it? A week on from a one act play of a war, we pick through the charred remains of the Fordow Nuclear Site. We’re looking for clues. A smouldering nothingburger here; or a flambéd Middle Eastern order there?Meanwhile, Daddy got his five percent — NATO members have signed up to splash the cash on the next generation of weaponry. But is this wise defensive spending, or just a fully-armoured hypersonic pork barrel?Finally, the S&P has rallied this week - just as the

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Premium Edition Teaser: Iran Special

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2025/06/24

Was it real?As we record this on the morning of the 23 June, we are a little over 24 hours removed from Operation Midnight Hammer, in which USAF assets, including B2 Spirit stealth heavy bombers, attacked the Iranian nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.US President Donald Trump says that Iran's nuclear programme has been destroyed for good. Open Source satellite pictures of the Fordow site show six ominous black holes in two, tightly clustered groups of three, into which

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01:13:25

Special Edition: Malcom Kyeyune on Military Parades...

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2025/06/19

Malcom Kyeyune is one of the oldest friends of Multipolarity. In his first 2025 appearance, he catches up with Andrew about the state of the world. Trump’s ‘military parade’. The breakup of the MAGA coalition. Violence on America’s streets. The advent of hypersonic missiles above the skies of Tel Aviv. This is a wide-ranging, theory-of-everything overview of the geopolitical moment. You can get special paywalled premium episodes of Multipolarity every month on Patreon:

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50:34

Musk Rat Love, Remember the LA mo’, Promising The...

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2025/06/12

The Big Divorce has finally hit. Like a country rock record written by the WWE, the Trump Musk split has been its own kind of kino. But beyond two hotheaded men who secretly still love each other very much, could it be that this marks the schism between tech and MAGA? Meanwhile… that escalated quickly. As LA smouldered over the weekend, Trump punched the nuclear button, demanding to send in squadrons of marines. Whether they storm the beaches of the I-110 is perhaps secondary to the constitutional

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01:14:28

Special Edition: Pilkington Launches "The Collapse Of...

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2025/06/05

This week, we’re going as big picture as imaginable.Philip Pilkington has a thesis about liberalism itself: 1. That it is bad. 2. That it is ending.That’s the nub of his new book, released this week. He argues that the modern world order is based on a doctrinaire and unrealistic form of liberalism and has given rise to hollowed-out financialised economies and disintegrating societies that can barely even reproduce their population or meet their energy needs.Only by abandoning our liberal delusions

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14:40

Premium Edition Teaser: Xi Blinded Me with Science,...

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2025/05/29

China is planning a new version of its Made In China 2025 industrial strategy. Just as America is punching holes in its own science funding budget, we'll be reporting from the output gap.Meanwhile, the new US ambassador to Ankara has declared that he's against carving up Syria in a modern Sykes-Picot, the treaty that drew up the Middle East modern borders. Is this an important anti-colonial action or just a license for Erdogan to gobble up his own Ottoman empire?Finally, Harvard continues to come

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52:03

Special Edition: A Tale of Two Great Walls?

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2025/05/22

Two audio essays, half a world apart.Nixon went to China first. Now, Philip Pilkington is there; to see what fifty years of openness to the West has done for the place. Turns out, quite a bit. He’ll be sharing his impressions: North Korea-style police state, or Singapore-style authoritarian wonderland?While Philip is playing tourist, our very own Andrew Collingwood is crossing the Rio Grande and the 49th parallel, taking the temperature on America’s deteriorating relations with both Canada and

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46:42

The Abraham Discords, Bloody Vicious Rocket, The...

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2025/05/15

More ordnance in the Middle East. Rumours are that Trump is agreeing to a two state solution; Israel is out in the cold; Netanyahu is not having his calls returned, and a trillion dollar deal is incoming with the Saudis. We’ve had shuttle diplomacy… but this is Challenger Space Shuttle diplomacy?Meanwhile, Pakistan has apparently shot down as many as three Indian Rafale fighter jets in recent clashes over Kashmir. The culprit? A chinese-made BVR system. To some, this unexpected win apparently means

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57:00

Romanian Light, Rocket From The Crypt, Authoritarians...

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2025/05/08

No one imagined that Romanian elections would become a big spectator sport, but they’ve really proved us wrong. Remember the TikTok Secret Police Election? Well now Romania is back with a sequel: Ethno-Nationalist Hooligan for President.The question smart observers are asking is: why can the powers that be live with one, not the other? The smartest are keeping the answer to themselves. Meanwhile, if you’re passing through Ben Gurion International Airport, hang onto your drink. You wouldn’t want a

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Premium Edition Teaser: 51st State of Mind, You...

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2025/05/01

Three months ago, Pierre Poilievre was going to take 50 per cent of the total vote, a historic generational landslide. Now, he’s a pub trivia question.What happened in Canada?Did it warp beneath the enormous trade gravity of the Trump Presidency?And why did Canadians think that turning to a milquetoast former central banker would turn off the US electromagnet dismantling their country one bolt at a time?India and Pakistan are at it again.Early in the week, reports were of World War 3. Vishnu and

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56:23

Moon Age Daydream, Iran So Far Away, The Empire...

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2025/04/24

Gold is going to the moooooooon. Fantastic news for gold bugs. Until someone works out that this is a short against America, and the Wall Street types celebrating are effectively blowing the kazoo for the end of their own industry.After all, if gold remains on the moon, they’ll have to figure out whether they still need financial services consultants in space.Meanwhile - it’s a day ending in Y so someone in the Pentagon must be plotting an attack on Iran.It seems incredibly illogical and stupid

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01:07:24

Special Edition: Bretton Woods 3

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2025/04/17

This week, in a special experiment, we've gone live on Twitter Spaces. As Trump's tariffs bite, and the current account deficit zooms to the front of modern political economy, we're revisiting the idea of a new Bancor, a complete resetting of the global monetary system.

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57:22

Special Edition: Tariffs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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2025/04/10

This week we scrubbed the decks and sounded the five bell alarm. Donald Trump had only gone and done it. Tariffs. Thousands of them. What could the greatest regression from the norms of globalisation since 1945 mean for a show called Multipolarity? Even better: what would it mean for the world? With the MAGA base both boisterous and uneasy in the face of this dawning reality, we wargamed out the answers. Until, at 20:10 local time, news came of a stunning reversal...

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Special Edition: The Coming Bear Market and Fortress...

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2025/04/03

Coming up this week: an audio essays special edition.Philip and Andrew, going head to head, a half hour each, on two big stories that have a more medium-term feel than the usual weekly news pegs.In the red corner, Mr Pilkington takes on the bear market. Is an icy wind coming for global stocks? How it could play out? From the bottoming out of NVIDA to the coming age of tariffs, what are the key triggers?Then, Andrew Collingwood will be taking on medium-term Europe. As the US shrinks from its

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Premium Edition Teaser: Jeffrey Has Entered the Chat...

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2025/03/27

Was the editor of the Atlantic actually accidentally included in some rangy groupchat among bros that included a denunciation of European defence policy?Are you stupid? Have you recently had an aneurysm? Leaving aside this obvious straw dog, what is Washington actually signalling here?Meanwhile, the Chinese, Japanese and South Koreans are getting together to sign declarations of mutual support: pledging increased economic co-operation – and gently letting the whole Taiwan thing slide.When nations

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49:19

Punching Right, School of Hardware Knocks, The Trump Put

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2025/03/20

The British right is starting to fracture on the Ukraine issue. Where once they would reliably be called upon to paint themselves blue and yellow and raise a whip-round down the dog & duck for more MANPADS – now, as the endgame approaches, a group of the plugged-in are leaving the big tent. The civil war that follows may be its own Donbas.Meanwhile, further evidence is in that US firms are quietly reorienting their capital expenditure away from data centres and chips, and towards efficiency

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53:35

Nasty NASDAQ, Of Euro-Bondage, Syria Seems to Be The...

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2025/03/13

Tesla is tanking. On the NASDAQ, the Magnificent 7 have become merely the 7. The talk is all of quarterly earnings in Musk towers. But is this just a smokescreen for the fact that DeepSeek has DeepFound Silicon Valley in DeepDooDoo?Meanwhile, in Europe, the dream of rearmament is still alive and well. Two weeks in, we’ll have a report, direct from the frontlines of an unreachable fantasia.Finally, do Jihadis make good pets? For a few Washington and Brussels liberals, they have become the accessory

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Special Edition: Zelensky Takes A Direct Strike, The...

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2025/03/06

As the world blows up, again, Andrew Collingwood has a dread cold. Gavin Haynes fills in as best he can, with a soft Newcastle brogue. We cover everything - from the rumble in the White House to the cultural amnesia coming up the pike. *** You can get paywalled episodes of Multipolarity on Patreon. https://www.Patreon.com/multipolarity It's cheap and you can cancel any time.

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Premium Edition: Kaiser Friedrich IV and Trumpian...

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2025/02/28

In Germany, there’s been an election.And The Reichstag is on fire - with a new cohort of AfD members .Will Keiser Merz see this as his opportunity to seize total control?After all, on Saturday, the incoming Chancellor decided that Germany can quote go it alone. Whatever that means. Is the real threat to European democracy about to come from besieged Christian Democrats?Meanwhile, what exactly is Donald Trump up to? In the past few weeks, America’s Sun King has sprayed the geopolitical flak a mile

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