Geopolitics Decanted by Silverado
Geopolitics Decanted is a podcast featuring geopolitical analysis and in-depth expert interviews on topics ranging from War in Ukraine, Great Power Competition with China, changing nature of warfare, sanctions and export controls, semiconductors and cybersecurity. This is a podcast for people who care about the details and are seeking a comprehensive understanding of global issues, not just the sound bytes.
It is hosted by Dmitri Alperovitch, Chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator (www.silverado.org), a Washington DC-based non-profit with a mission to promote prosperity and global competitiveness for America and its allies by accelerating bipartisan strategic, economic and technological policy solutions.
Latest episodes
Apr 17, 2023 • 1h 6min
How Ukraine Can Survive the Exhaustion of Its Air Defense Stocks
Apr 7, 2023 • 59min
China and Russia: An Alliance, an Alignment or a Marriage of Convenience?
Mar 21, 2023 • 1h 4min
Why Taiwan’s Military Modernization Is Moving Too Slowly
Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Vincent Chao, a Taiwanese politician and former diplomat and national security strategist, about why Taiwan is moving so slowly to modernize its military and increase deterrence of an existential threat of Chinese invasion. They discuss Taiwan's messy identity politics, whether Taiwanese will fight to defend their freedoms, Chinese misinformation efforts to drive wedges in Taiwan's political system and alliances, whether Silicon Shield can protect Taiwan and why a Chinese blockade is not the major threat to the island.
Mar 10, 2023 • 39min
Myth Busting With Michael Kofman: Debunking Common Misperceptions About the Ukraine War
Feb 21, 2023 • 49min
How Russia’s Winter Offensive Could Backfire
Feb 12, 2023 • 1h 5min
Interview: This American Spent 10 Months Fighting in Ukraine
Dmitri Alperovitch talks to David Bramlette, a former U.S. Ranger and Green Beret combat veteran, who has recently returned from fighting with the Ukrainian Foreign Legion in the Kharkiv, Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. David shares his experiences of the war, why he went over to risk his life for a foreign country, his impressions of the Russian and Ukrainian forces, and what happens when Americans get wounded in Ukraine.
Jan 23, 2023 • 25min
How Russia is Working Around Western Sanctions and Export Controls
"Russia Shifting Import Sources Amid U.S. and Allied Export Restrictions" report download link: https://silverado.org/news/report-russia-shifting-import-sources-amid-u-s-and-allied-export-restrictions
Jan 13, 2023 • 1h 2min
Why Ukraine May Try to Retake Crimea Next
Dec 23, 2022 • 47min
How Dwindling Ammunition Stocks Could Decide the Outcome of the War
Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Russian military expert Michael Kofman about:
- Why this war may be decided by which side can stretch their ammunition supplies the longest
- Putin's visit to Belarus and whether a new Russian offensive may be coming soon
- 3 areas in which Russian military has been outclassed by Ukrainian forces
- How Russian Military Intelligence (GRU) has performed in this conflict
- Whether Surovikin is the best military commander Russia has had thus far in this war
- What impact the delivery of Patriots batteries might have on Ukrainian air defense
- The importance of the partisan warfare Ukrainians are conducting against Russian logistics in the south
Dec 12, 2022 • 48min
New Phase of the War: Ukraine Faces Tough Decisions
Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Michael Kofman
- The strategic impact of Russian terror strike campaign against Ukrainian critical infrastructure
- Likelihood of a near-term Ukrainian offensive to retake the South
- Is Ukraine trying to retake Kinburn Spit to control the Dniepier river?
- Would tanks help Ukraine break through the Russian trenches in the Donbas?
- Will we see significant offensive action this winter?
- Why the war will not stop at February 24 lines
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