Glenn Diesen - Greater Eurasia Podcast

George Beebe, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen on the Duran

An interview during Trump's inauguration. Diana Panchenko was formerly recognised as Ukraine's “Journalist of the Year” and among Ukraine’s top 10 most influential women.

GMU econ prof Dan Klein says a populist strain is natural to classical liberalism. He draws on ethics and libertarian class analysis. He highlights Javier Milei. He discusses two types of popuphobes, swampy globalists and certain misguided classical liberals. He explains how “populism” is gas in the swampy globalists’ gaslighting—and suggests that the misguided classical liberals are playing into their hands. He relates populism to Max Weber’s three sources of legitimacy for a political leader, finding a correlation between populism and charisma. Classical liberals should be wary of populism but accord it at least one cheer, especially in these times of swampy globalism.

I had the pleasure to speak with Prof. John Mearsheimer and Alexander Mercouris about what Trump can achieve as he returns to the White House. Trump will seek to shift focus away from an increasingly irrelevant Europe and America’s perpetual wars in the Middle East, as the main challenge to US dominance comes from China. However, Biden has escalated the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East to such an extent that there are options left for Trump.

A peace agreement will be almost impossible to achieve. Russia considers itself to be fighting an existential threat from NATO and demands that Ukraine restore its neutrality and accept territorial concessions. Even if Trump accepts these conditions, it would be difficult to sell such a peace agreement to Washington, the Europeans and the Ukrainians. As NATO expansionism triggered the war, it is unlikely that even NATO security guarantees to Ukraine would be acceptable in any peace agreement. A peace agreement has more chance to succeed if it is based on the recognition that the Ukraine War is not only a conflict between Ukraine and Russia but primarily a conflict between NATO and Russia. A peace agreement attempting to resolve the destructive zero-sum European security architecture could produce a positive-sum approach to security that benefits Ukraine, Russia and the NATO countries.

Ambassador Chas Freeman, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen Full episode on the Duran: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq4J8kXvWfA&t=2833s

Ambassador Chas Freeman, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen Full episode on the Duran: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq4J8kXvWfA&t=2833s

https://glenndiesen.substack.com/publish/post/154882697?back=%2Fpublish%2Fposts%2Fscheduled I had a conversation with Alexander Mercouris and Ambassador Chas Freeman, a former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Besides being a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Freeman’s career included opening China with Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon in the 1970s and developing the post-Cold War security architecture in Europe. We discussed the messy world that the Biden Administration is handing over to Trump. There is seemingly a genuine desire to end the proxy war in Ukraine, and Trump may also achieve a ceasefire in Palestine. However, NATO’s escalations in Ukraine to sabotage possible negotiations and the reckless support for HTS in Syria have reduced the possibilities available to Trump. Will the Ukraine War be resolved by a Russian victory or a political settlement?

Trump recognises NATO expansionism as the source of the war, and blames Biden.

I participated in a debate on “Inside Politics with Anastasiya Lavrina” to discuss Armania’s shift toward the West and its deteriorating relations with Russia. I argue that it is in Armenia’s to diversify its economic partnerships to avoid excessive reliance on only Russia. However, Armania’s objective to establish a balanced relationship between the West and Russia is not shared by the West. The continent is redivided and a new Cold War is being fought over where to draw the new dividing lines. The main interest and objective of the West is to drive a wedge between Armenia and Russia to weaken a strategic rival. This could be disastrous for Armenia as Russia is its most important economic partner, the Eurasian Economic Union serves its national interests, and the regional geopolitical balance would also shift to the advantage of Armenia’s adversaries.