In-depth conversations on the conflicts and rivalries shaping our world, explored in the detail the subject deserves. Dmitri Alperovitch speaks with the military commanders, intelligence officials, diplomats, historians, and strategists who shape events and study them closely — on the war in Ukraine, strategic competition with China and the future of Taiwan, nuclear deterrence, sanctions and semiconductors, and the changing character of warfare. Throughout, the aim is to understand not merely what has happened, but why — and what is likely to follow.
Geopolitics Decanted is hosted by Dmitri Alperovitch — chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator in Washington, D.C., national bestselling author of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century, and co-founder of CrowdStrike.
Episodes
Sunday May 01, 2022
Sunday May 01, 2022
May 1, 2022: Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Michael Kofman (Research Program Director in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analysis) and Nolan Peterson (Ukraine-based Senior Editor of Coffee or Die Magazine) about the new developments in the war in Ukraine on Twitter Spaces.
Discussion of the state of the Ukrainian military and whether the western weapons aid is getting to the front lines, economic conditions in Ukraine, fight for the Donbas, Russian Chief of General Staff Gerasimov's apparent visit to the front-lines in Izyum and how this has become a war of artillery.
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Monday Apr 25, 2022
Monday Apr 25, 2022
April 24, 2022: Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Michael Kofman (Research Program Director in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analysis) about the new developments in the war in Ukraine on Twitter Spaces.
Discussion of the fight for Donbas, how Russia is doing now on logistics and tactics, the sinking of Moskva, Russia's blockade in the Black Sea and the strangling of the Ukrainian economic and the outlook on the how the war might end
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Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Sunday Apr 10, 2022
Dmitri Alperovitch (@DAlperovitch) talks about nuclear nonproliferation with Jeffrey Lewis (@ArmsControlWonk), Director of East Asia Nonproliferation Project at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies at Monterey.
Topics discussed include:
- What is the latest status of the Iran nuclear deal negotiations?
- What are the key objections to JCPOA?
- What does Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei truly want?
- Why has Iran already beaten all world records at the longest time to acquiring a nuclear bomb?
- How significant is the benefit of a nuclear weapons program to countries like Iran and North Korea?
- Did we forever miss the opportunity to contain nuclear proliferation in the 70s-90s with a lax enforcement regime?
- 16 years after North Korea first tested a nuclear device, is it time to acknowledge that North Korea is not going to give up its weapons and refocus our diplomatic strategy with them on more achievable objectives?
- And much more...
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Sunday Apr 03, 2022
Sunday Apr 03, 2022
April 3, 2022: Dmitri Alperovitch talks about the new developments in the war in Ukraine on Twitter Spaces and implications of the conflict for Taiwan and its defense with Michael Kofman (Research Program Director in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analysis) and Ivan Kanapathy (former Director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia on the National Security Council and US military attache in Taiwan, now Vice President at Beacon Global Strategies).
Topics: Russian withdrawal from the northwest, is threat to Kyiv/Odessa/Kharkiv over, what's next in the Donbas, what is the endgame in the south, how real is the threat to Finland and Sweden if they move forward with NATO accession, what lessons can Taiwan learn from Ukraine, how capable is China at amphibious landings and suppression of air defenses, and much more!
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Sunday Mar 27, 2022
Sunday Mar 27, 2022
March 27, 2022: Dmitri Alperovitch talks about the new developments in the war in Ukraine on Twitter Spaces.
Discussion of potential cyber attacks on US and allies with Chris Krebs (former director of CISA, co-founder of Krebs Stamos Group) and analysis of Russia's announced endgame for the war with Michael Kofman (Research Program Director in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analysis)
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Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
March 20, 2022: Dmitri Alperovitch talks about the new developments the war in Ukraine on Twitter Spaces.
Update on the campaign, challenges the Russians are facing, prospect for a coup in Russia and much more with Michael Kofman (Research Program Director in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analysis) and Andrew Monaghan (Senior Fellow at the Kennan Institute)
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Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
March 13, 2022: Dmitri Alperovitch talks about the new developments the war in Ukraine on Twitter Spaces.
Update on the campaign, Russian training deficiencies, prospect of nuclear escalation and much more with Michael Kofman (Research Program Director in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analysis) and Rob Lee (Senior Fellow at the Eurasia Program of the Foreign Policy Research Institute)
Follow the speakers on Twitter: @DAlperovitch, @KofmanMichael and @RALee85
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Friday Mar 11, 2022
March 6, 2022: Dmitri Alperovitch discusses the war in Ukraine on Twitter Spaces: the state of the campaign, Russian plans and failures, Ukrainian defenses and much more with Michael Kofman (Research Program Director in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analysis) and Rob Lee (Senior Fellow at the Eurasia Program of the Foreign Policy Research Institute)
Follow the speakers on Twitter: @DAlperovitch, @KofmanMichael and @RALee85