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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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55:15

Special Edition: Munich!

Multipolarity ·

2025/02/20

A piece of our time: a special edition covering the Vance speech, the Ukraine peace plan, and the EU response.

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54:46

Save The Aid, The UK Art of The Deal, If I Speak I Am...

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2025/02/13

They say sunlight is the best disinfectant. But what if you’re a germ? As the USA.I.D demolition continues, we’re beginning to see the outlines of what might be a network of real corruption - and it's not just the tinfoil hats saying it. How will the US public deal with having the wool pulled from their eyes? And will the Beltway liberals ever recover?Meanwhile, Britain has agreed to the deal of the century. The Mauritians get: £18 billion. We get: to give them a strategically important series of

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01:03:29

Born in the USAID, Deep Deep Trouble, Customs of the...

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2025/02/06

USAID is being dismantled brick by brick, the bricks are being pulped, the pulp is going in the blower, the dust is being scattered to the four winds.R.I.P, U.S.A.I.D.We’ll be sharing the surprising implications for independent anti-government bloggers in Moldova.Meanwhile, DeepSeek has beggared the US stock market and set NVIDIA on fire. Have the Chinese pulled off their Sputnik moment? Or just the ordinary shooting of a fox?Finally, the frenzied abandon of Donald Trump’s tariff blitz often feels

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01:02:12

Special Edition: Glenn Diesen on Trumpism, Ukraine,...

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2025/01/30

No European who saw it would have avoided a pang of dread, when a meme appeared online this week, in the wake of the DeepSeek AI phenomenon.It pictured three dragons. One, ferocious, on its chest the logos of OpenAI, MetaAI, Gemini AI, and the US flag.The other, just as ferocious: featured the Chinese flag, and the logo of DeepSeek.The third, looking like the kid in primary school who eats the crayons, featured the EU logo, and the emblematic grafted-on plastic water bottle lid that has become

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17:07

Pardon?, Little Red Note, Shall We Tell Peter Zeihan?

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2025/01/23

This week is a paywalled premium episode. ***Joe Biden spent his final week minting pardons like Mugabe minted bank notes. In fact, his last act in office was to pardon his entire family. What does this unprecedented use of the seal of office portend for America’s future – and what has it got to do with the Russian word for roof?Meanwhile, it’s been a rollercoaster week for zombie-eyed American Zoomers. TikTok was shut down. Then it was reprieved by Trump. In between, Red Note gave them a glimpse

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52:30

Trump Regime Detonates UK?, Biden's AI Chips Ban,...

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2025/01/16

Britain is under attack by the world’s two worst entities - rape gangs and bond market speculators. As Starmer mounts a last stand, we’re reporting from the tattered remnants of old blighty. Is Musk just messing with Starmer’s tiny mind - or are the Americans serious about sinking HMS Britannia.Meanwhile, just as the world is thirsting for AI, the Biden regime has decided it will titrate the market for the specialised NVIDIA graphic chips that are vital to building AI systems.It’s like sanctions -

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01:09:59

Special Edition: Crystal Balls 2025

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2025/01/10

Welcome to 2025. How bright is the future? Andrew and Philip share their predictions. 😎😎😎

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42:40

Special Edition: Dissident Former Diplomat Ian Proud...

Multipolarity ·

2024/12/19

Ian Proud was once Britain's man in Moscow. A career diplomat of 24 years, he got to look in directly upon the withering relationship between the United Kingdom and Russia, in the crucial period from 2014 until 2019. In fact, he rebuilt embassy staffing structures following the mass expulsion after the March 2018 Salisbury nerve agent attack.Since then, Proud has been outspokenly critical on questions of UK-Russia relations. This week, Philip and Andrew are trying to get into the British diplomat

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01:13:00

Special Edition: Steve Hsu on China, Tech, and...

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2024/12/12

Trumpism 2.0 offers both danger and opportunity.Trumpism 1.0 was built around being tough with China.And while that is no longer a rhetorical priority for the big man, much of what was started in 2016 has since become the accepted wisdom in DC.Today, Trumpism 2.0 is as much about American competitiveness – in an international market that has slipped further away from its hegemon across the last eight years.It’s about deregulation, DOGE, and developing strategic dominance in the emerging fields of

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12:38

Premium Episode Teaser: Syria's Big Comeback,...

Multipolarity ·

2024/12/05

Don’t call it a comeback! Four years after the last embers appeared to have been snuffed out, this week, the Syrian Civil War shocked fans by announcing it’s getting the band back together. Is the world’s most confusing conflict about to get explicable? Not entirely. We’ll be explaining why the situation in Aleppo is not something you’ll brush up on soon.Meanwhile… The fireworks guns have been a great special effects innovation. Madam President is certainly giving a hammy turn of character acting

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49:03

Special Edition: The First Medium Range Ballistic...

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2024/11/28

As the first every intermediate range ballistic missile to be fired in anger lands on Ukraine, it is more than just a world historic event in the evolution of arms. It’s a shot across the bows for the broader West.How do we style this one out?Right now, our leaders are a gorilla holding a ming vase.Given their overall skill levels, will we make it through the present crisis without losing our eyebrows in the white heat of a nuclear blast?In part one of this week’s special edition we’ll be

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01:22:28

We Didn't Start The Fire: Multipolarity is 100

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2024/11/21

In a very special episode, we’re celebrating our hundred with a walk back along the yesteryears of Multipolarity.Two yesteryears in particular - 2023 and 2024.That’s right: we’re old enough to remember the Multipolar world back when it was a glint in Xi Jingping’s extreme-UV lithography factories.Back when American decline was just a gobbet of drool on Joe Biden’s chin.Back when the Middle East wasn’t entirely on fire, and Germany hadn’t yet totally fallen off a cliff.Before the Houthi rockets, the

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01:00:33

Post Election Special: Question Marco, Queen of the...

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2024/11/14

From Marco Polo to Marco Rubio – the West keeps rediscovering that China is a big Asian landmass with a mind of its own. So is Trump’s hawkish new Secretary of State about to get himself tangled in a Chinese finger trap of tariffs?Meanwhile, back on the Europe thing, Multipolarity’s pet punching bag Ursula von der Leyen is about to be put through four years of BDSM, as the Trumpists resile from the European frontier even while picking fights with its leadership. Is Ursula’s post-election pledge to

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05:16

America Votes, Europe Decides

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2024/11/06

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

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01:10:35

Special Episode: Warwick Powell on How To Build A New...

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2024/10/31

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

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54:32

Moldova Joins The Club, Chindia, Keir There And...

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2024/10/24

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

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51:08

Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters, First Come First...

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2024/10/17

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 increasinglycentripetal force of its Russia

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58:52

Special Edition, feat. Malcom Kyeyune: Helene Is A...

Multipolarity ·

2024/10/10

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

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10:01

The Grand Opening of the Northern Front, The...

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2024/10/03

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

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01:04:31

Special Episode: Philipp Mattheis on Germany's...

Multipolarity ·

2024/09/26

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

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