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 thre ...
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Pardon?, Little Red Note, Shall We Tell Peter Zeihan?
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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 b…
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Trump Regime Detonates UK?, Biden's AI Chips Ban, Trussification Part 4
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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…
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Special Edition: Dissident Former Diplomat Ian Proud on UK-Russia Relations
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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…
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Special Edition: Steve Hsu on China, Tech, and Trumpism 2.0
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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 sli…
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Premium Episode Teaser: Syria's Big Comeback, Georgia's Last Colour Revolution, Vive Le 6ieme Republique!
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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 o…
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Special Edition: The First Medium Range Ballistic Missile Ever Fired In Anger
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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 …
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We Didn't Start The Fire: Multipolarity is 100
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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 d…
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Post Election Special: Question Marco, Queen of the Ashes, Straw Polls
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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 …
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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…
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Special Episode: Warwick Powell on How To Build A New Global Currency
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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…
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Moldova Joins The Club, Chindia, Keir There And Everywhere
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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, Chi…
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Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters, First Come First Serb, Strait Talk
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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 en…
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Special Edition, feat. Malcom Kyeyune: Helene Is A Disaster, The Foam Dome Bursts
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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 bure…
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The Grand Opening of the Northern Front, The Lebanisation of Lebanon, The Hungaro-Austrian Empire…
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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 Le…
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Special Episode: Philipp Mattheis on Germany's Downward Spiral
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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 la…
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NATO's New Secretary General, The Youth In Asia, The Weeks Of The Jackal
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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 foreca…
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Special Episode: Super Mario Is Draghi Draghi Draghi
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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…
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Premium Episode: The Silicon Archipelago, The Silicon Archipelago Germany and the Rise of Socialist Nationalism Budget Beatdown, Turning Turk
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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 …
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Special Episode: Thomas Fazi on the ECB, Pavel Durov, and America's End of Empire Moment
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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 …
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Kamala Chameleon, Biden’s Building Binge, Another BRIC in the Wall
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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. Wh…
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Once Shy Twice Bitten, Domino Theory Revisited, The Ascent of Musk
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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,…
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Premium Episode: The Japanese Stock Market Crash, Captain AnCap & The Legend Of El Dorado, The British Race Riots
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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 see…
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Special Edition: Gladden Pappin on Orbán's Big Speech
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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 effe…
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Special Edition: "This Is Not A Coup" - feat. Malcom Kyeyune
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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,…
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Did You Enjoy The Theatre Mrs Trump?, Let's Vance, Ponzi Capital Management
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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…
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