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The Psychological Tools of CIA Operatives with Andrew Bustamante (WiM328)

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The Economics of War in Ukraine

The Russia is a business. It's a giant monopoly on violence that exports a lot of energy. If Ukraine is a bottleneck and therefore a single point of failure for the exportation of that energy, then the monopoly on violence will rise to defend or conquer control. They're mere images of each other. And that's why we're watching. That's why so many people are interested in China because guess who has no dog in either fight,. Right? So China gets to just observe, huh? What's the world doing in Ukraine? Because there's a good likelihood that that's what the world will do.

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