Scott Ritter tells Glenn Diesen that the largest drone attack on St. Petersburg did not exploit a hole in Russian air defenses so much as a corridor along Belarus, Poland, and the Baltic states, where intercepting the drones would put Russian assets into NATO airspace, and that the precision implies guidance beacons inside NATO countries. He says Zelensky made the quarrel with Donald Trump personal, a mistake he calls fatal, and that the split points to the collapse of Ukraine and, with it, of NATO and the European Union.
Jennifer Kavanagh is a Senior Fellow and Director of Military Analysis at Defense Priorities and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies. Kavanagh discusses her policy paper advocating a US withdrawal from the First Island Chain to avoid war with China, and explains why it sparked such a strong reaction.
Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi of Tehran University, a former advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team, talks with Glenn Diesen about whether Egypt may join the Saudi war and about a wider war coming.
John Mearsheimer tells Glenn Diesen that the end-of-history moment failed once unipolarity gave way to a multipolar order of the United States, China, and Russia, and that a liberal international order cannot hold when two of the three great powers are not liberal democracies. He says Europe's nightmare is poisoned relations with Russia after an ugly Russian victory in Ukraine, and the chance that the American pacifier leaves Europe for East Asia.
Mearsheimer argues Russia treats the war as an existential threat and will not lose, and that Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil push Moscow to wreck Ukraine as a functioning state. He ties Trump's diesel deal and pressure on Zelensky to the Iran war and the world economy, and he expects Trump to back off cutting intelligence and Starlink. He also says the Houthis are hitting Saudi oil routes, including Yanbu, that another short bombing campaign will not do what a 40-day campaign failed to do, and that wars are much easier to start than to end.
Chas Freeman, former US assistant secretary of defense and ambassador to Saudi Arabia, with Glenn Diesen on the quarrel between Trump and Zelensky after a US diesel deal with Russia. Freeman says the Trump administration does not share the Biden line of using Ukraine to pressure Russia, and discusses reports of reduced US intelligence sharing, including a degraded Starlink used to guide Ukrainian drones.
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Martin Armstrong is the former chairman of Princeton Economics International Ltd., a former leading multinational corporate advisor with offices in Paris, London, Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo. He was hailed as Economist of the Decade and was named Hedge Fund Manager of the Year in 1998 after correctly forecasting the collapse of Russia.
Ivana Nikolić Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and Senior Lecturer at Columbia University, with Glenn Diesen on AI and a new nuclear arms race.
Jiang Xueqin, host of Predictive History, tells Glenn Diesen that the West's political crisis is a contest among globalists, nationalists, an AI oligarchy, and Zionist factions around Trump.
He argues that a wider war would more likely be traced to the Houthi-Saudi conflict in Yemen than to a direct clash between the United States and Iran, because the Houthis are not constrained the way state actors are.
Richard Wolff discusses the implosion of the political and economic system organised around the US, and how the US is responding by returning to more traditional imperialism.
