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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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01:00:31

NATO's New Secretary General, The Youth In Asia, The...

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2024/09/19

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

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01:00:26

Special Episode: Super Mario Is Draghi Draghi Draghi

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2024/09/12

Touted in Eurocrat circles as a document that can square the circles and circle the wagons. Praised to the hilt by the Commission, hotly anticipated by industry, to some this is Europe's last best attempt to recant and repent before it is zapped by Asian competition and the ongoing energy drought. This week, we've cleared the decks to rake over the Mario Draghi report into European competitiveness. Can this arch-insider come up with the special sauce that sets the VW plants humming? Can he weave a

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Premium Episode: The Silicon Archipelago, The Silicon...

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2024/09/05

As Pavel Durov remains in French hands, we’re wondering whether Europe can finally develop its own Silicon Valley simply by mass detention of top entrepreneurial talent.Or whether perhaps this is the desperate last whelp of a society increasingly bypassed by the global tech economy.Meanwhile, in Germany, the story of the day is that the AfD have taken a great swath of Thuringia and Saxony, while Sara Wagenknecht has gobbled the rest. This is democracy in action – so can it be stopped?At the same

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Special Episode: Thomas Fazi on the ECB, Pavel Durov,...

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2024/08/29

Thomas Fazi has been watching the EU implode for over a decade. He's widely known as a contributor to UnHerd and Compact, and for his 2014 book: Battle For Europe: How An Elite Hijacked A Continent. His work on the corruption of European institutions stretches back to the 2011 Sovereign Debt Crisis. Multipolarity has been consistently arguing that the jesses of central bank policy are being used as political levers to keep the EU's wayward member states together - in contravention of both the letter

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Kamala Chameleon, Biden’s Building Binge, Another...

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2024/08/22

As Ukraine punches into Kursk, and the world asks whether this is this more Kaiserschlacht, or more Ardennes Offensive, cooler heads are focused on the bigger picture.Word is Kamala Harris is going to sack Jake Sullivan. Given that Trump would have sacked him anyway, we’re now into a world where the pro-Ukraine top team is, fait accompli, gone. Which means the US pivot to Asia is increasingly nailed on.Meanwhile, two years after Joe Biden’s signature Inflation Reduction Act, it turns out the thick

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Once Shy Twice Bitten, Domino Theory Revisited, The...

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2024/08/15

Kamala Harris is ahead in six key swing states - according to several major polls. All of which are categorically wrong.Could the ghost of the Shy Trumper be about to smite the Dems for the third election running? And why are the usual media suspects pretending it isn’t a thing, never has been, never could be?Meanwhile, in Malaysia and Indonesia, a new domino theory is starting to stack up. In the world of friendshoring and belt-and-road, the Pacific rim was always going to be the key prize - and

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Premium Episode: The Japanese Stock Market Crash,...

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2024/08/08

The bears are coming. As Japan posts the biggest one day stock market losses since Black Monday, we’re asking whether this dip is a passing blip – or the big ka-blam?Meanwhile, Argentina’s reserves include almost two million ounces of gold, valued at $4.5 billion. But lately, there’s a question that’s on everybody’s lips: where is it?The gold seems to have been transferred out of the country. But why, no one can say.Is this some sublime economic master-stroke from the wacky professor Milei? Or just

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01:08:33

Special Edition: Gladden Pappin on Orbán's Big Speech

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2024/08/01

Last weekend, Viktor Orbán travelled to the town of Băile Tușnad, deep in the Transylvanian mountains of Romania, to attend a 'music and ideas' festival. He was on the bill. Amongst the ethnically-Hungarian diaspora who live in the region, Orbán is a regular visitor. In fact, the Tusványos festival was started by Fidesz back when the party was effectively four people. That was in the early-90s. Today, it has swelled to accommodate over 10 000 people. The place is billed as an 'open university', with

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01:08:32

Special Edition: "This Is Not A Coup" - feat. Malcom...

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2024/07/25

At 4.32pm on the 18th of August the so-called State Committee on the State of Emergency cut the lines of communication to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbacev's dacha - these included telephone communications and the nuclear command and control system.Eight minutes later Lieutenant General Yuri Plekhanov, Head of the 9th Chief Directorate of the KGB, let the group into the dacha where they demanded that Gorbachev either declare a state of emergency in the Soviet Union or resign.The previous month

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Did You Enjoy The Theatre Mrs Trump?, Let's Vance,...

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2024/07/18

You were only supposed to blow his bloody head off...As Donald Trump is saved by God Almighty, we’re indisputably living in the lucky timeline. But while the country might have dodged civil war, American politics has been changed utterly by the events of Saturday. And still not for the better.Meanwhile, Trump’s VP pick is lukewarm on Britain, and positively tepid on Project Ukraine. He’s being sold as a successor. Someone who can bring real intellectual heft to the MAGA project. But isn’t the

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To Viktor The Spoils, Girondins Meet The Jacobins,...

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2024/07/11

Viktor Orban has been taking secret flights. Dodging the CIA’s aviation monitoring to jet into Moscow.The Hungarian honcho is now fashioning himself as a shuttle diplomat in the Russo-Ukranian War, just as his country takes the rotating Presidency of the EU Council.What was the goal of this clandestine trip? And did he still get the air miles?Meanwhile, in the French parliamentary elections, Emmanuel Macron’s calculation was effectively like the old puzzle about a man who has to get a fox, a chicken

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01:11:52

Special Edition: "The First Debate Did Not Take...

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2024/07/04

In the halls of modern government the info-wizard is king. Media consultants, political strategists, whatever title they assume they always promise the same thing: magic worked through information control; spells cast by incantation.In the first week of March 2022, only a few days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a slew of articles came out in Western publications announcing the advent of the anti-Russian infowar.To say that this infowar was launched with much fanfare would be an

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Premium Episode: EU On Manoeuvres, feat: "The ECB...

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2024/06/27

This week, it’s a double header of audio essays on Europe’s elite power-plays.One From Andrew Collingwood - on the Atlanticists and the Autonomists taking their battle for supremacy into the new EU administration. And another from Philip Pilkington setting out how a new kind of Trussification may be coming for the states within the ECB…Is Le Pen mightier than La Banque?***It’s premium week, so if you’re not already a subscriber, head over to Patreon where for five pounds, Euros or dollars a month,

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Putin In Pyongyang, Milei Down And Die, Don't Believe...

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2024/06/20

As Vladimir Putin meets Kim Jong Un, big trade plans are afoot. Much to the chagrin of Western leaders.Seems like we’re about to answer an important question: what happens when the collective set of people you’ve sanctioned gets so large that they can all successfully trade with each other? Which invites yet another question - did no one think of this?Javier Milei decided he would rip the band aid off Argentine inflation.Now, finally,beneath that band aid, we can see… a gaping wound.Inflation is

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Special Episode: Mr Kyeyune Goes To Washington

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2024/06/13

Military-industrial blogger Malcom Kyeyune spends his life talking and thinking about US war preparations. So what was it like when he finally left his Swedish fortress and visited the capital of the Global American Empire, Washington DC? Malcom is just back from his first international conference. The Lads pick up on his time talking to the generals and the bureaucrats, and wonder whether the numbers match the vibes. Kyeyune is famously pessimistic. What did the DC Blob make of this Jonah

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01:00:29

Madame El Presidente, Buyout Britain, Ankara’s Away

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2024/06/06

Mexico has a new President.She’s the first woman President.She’s the first Jewish president.But most importantly, she’s the second Andrés Manuel López Obrador President.As the outgoing leader’s hand picked successor takes over, what does the continuity version of his wiley non-orthodox socialism look like when it comes to Mexico’s global standing?Meanwhile, for once America’s not going for a Mexican. It’s going for a British. The world’s least fashionable takeaway destination is also presently the

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Premium Episode: Britain 2029

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2024/05/30

This week: in light of the upcoming UK General Election, we're digging into what Britain will look like in five years time. Caught in a low growth high-debt trap, with currency and trade issues cutting off any room to manoeuvre, what's the softest landing for the G7's most vulnerable economy?***This is a premium week.So to get the full hour show, you’ll have to be signed up on Patreon.Sign up is easy.Go to https://www.Patreon.com/multipolarity.It’s $5, £5 or €5 a month.You can cancel any time.

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01:00:35

When Liberals Kill, G7 Suicide Pact, Dollarmageddon

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2024/05/23

The assassination attempt on Robert Fico has left Europe bemused.Shouldn’t it have left Europe stunned?In an age where condemnation of violent rhetoric has never been fiercer, it seems condemnation of actual violence has seldom been milder.As we move into a more fractious and populist age, what are the implications of the media’s seemingly divergent views on who it is and is not acceptable to assassinate?The G7 are meeting in Italy - just after Joe Biden dropped his massive package of trade tariffs

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01:03:46

Special Edition: Two Crystal Balls And The Death Of...

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2024/05/16

This week, a special edition. Two relatively short term scenarios, with very long term implications. Presented in audio essay form, by our two hosts. In Part One, Philip Pilkington outlines his take on what could happen after the US election. An extended sketch on the possibilty of violent Trussification. He thinks that bond market bullying of the incoming Trump administration could in turn set off a chain of events, that demand a new wave of de-dollarisation. In Part Two,

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Xi Came In Through The Belgrade Window, Egypt's...

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2024/05/09

Belgrade. Budapest. It’s not the classic tourist itinerary – but by his very footprints, Xi Jinping’s historic state visit is redrawing the power map of Europe. What does the continent look like once he’s done stomping about?Meanwhile, the Pound is in deep trouble - the Egyptian Pound, that is.As the land of the pharaohs takes a 45 % haircut on its currency, Egypt is spreading its multipolar tentacles. They’ve announced that they’re going to be settling their trade debts in currencies other than the

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