About this episode

The episode features a discussion with Justin Rogers-Cooper about the chaotic geopolitical landscape of 2026.

This is a preview of a subscribers-only episode. Click here to listen to the whole thing, and access our big library of bonus content . 2026 is leaping out of the gate with a flood of chaotic news stories, from Minneapolis to Greenland, from Venezuela to Iran. Justin joins me to look for the patterns uniting this increasingly jarring geopolitical reality, and to consider the poisonous cocktail of psychological, economic and historical forces that are launching us into a seemingly bleak future.

People in this episode

Host: David Parsons

Guest: Justin Rogers-Cooper

Topics covered

• geopolitical news
• psychological forces
• economic factors
• historical context
• chaotic news stories

Keywords

• geopolitics
• news
• psychology
• economics
• history
• future

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Places: Minneapolis, Greenland, Venezuela, Iran

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