It’s getting easier and easier to blunt power projection these days

Does J Street Exist? “Was born in America but my taxes go to killin’ Arab kids / Who look just like me, you tell me who’s the terrorist?”

"Any organization or ideology that supports perpetuating a regional power’s military primacy—especially when that power is liable for crimes against humanity—is on the wrong side and needs to get right.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/does-j-str...

“Multipolarity Isn’t a Hypothesis” Only a few months ago, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a viral speech about the rupture of global order.

“Multipolarity isn’t a hypothesis.” Spain’s prime minister gave a world-reordering speech in Beijing and mainstream media is just out to lunch www.un-diplomatic.com/p/multipolar...

Read the shit out of this one

OUT: Carney's speech.
IN: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speech in Beijing
"navigate this post-Rupture world in which Washington’s reliability can no longer be assumed, and in which Beijing’s partnership, however complicated, cannot be refused"
www.sinicapodcast.com/p/pm-pedro-s...

This is just flagrant incorrect, and a sign that OP has not read any of the relevant literature he claims is non-existent. The most generous thing I can say is that it’s an ungenerous category error to treat cutting defense--a prescription--as your opp’s diagnosis of world politics

The Iran war broke the first rule of imperial warmaking. Amazing convo w/ Morgan Spector (star of HBO’s The Gilded Age)! Available wherever you get your podcasts undiplomaticpodcast.com

NATO’s Existence Prevents European Independence Just a quick intervention after reading a well-reported piece in the Financial Times, about a rift in European military security thinking.

“Europe should not trust US arms production any more than it would trust Chinese arms production...there is no hope of realizing a meaningfully Independent Europe if the continent is dependent on US weapons procurement.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/natos-exis...

Peace or Barbarism! Guest Morgan Spector on Leftist Foreign Policy, Anti-Imperialism, and a Crisis of Capitalism | Ep. 298 Critically acclaimed actor and star of HBO’s The Gilded Age, Morgan Spector, joins me for a special, ambitious, and wide-ranging episode of the pod:

Morgan Spector, star of HBO’s The Gilded Age, has some advice for whomever hopes to be the left’s standard bearer in the 2028 presidential election. Must listen! www.un-diplomatic.com/p/peace-or-b...

The Iran war broke the first rule of imperial warmaking. Amazing convo w/ Morgan Spector (star of HBO’s The Gilded Age)! Available wherever you get your podcasts undiplomaticpodcast.com

Predator (1987) w/ Eric Stinton | Ep. 65 Van and Lyle are joined by writer and educator Eric Stinton, whose combat sports columns for Sherdog and essays for Honolulu Civil Beat have long explored how violence reveals deeper truths about cult...

The Predator (1987) was fun as hell to watch (and critique). From gym bro masculinity to homo-eroticism to far-right stabbed-in-the-back myths, this movie was also a prism foretelling our future political dystopia. A great watch w/ @tombstonestint.bsky.social www.bangbangpod.com/p/predator-1...

April 13, 2026 – Online sports betting is growing as a facet of American life, with 27% of Americans and half of men ages 18-49 (52%) saying they have an active account with an online sportsbook such as DraftKings, Caesars, FanDuel, or BetMGM, according to a new survey of United States residents released today by the Siena Research Institute (SRI) and St. Bonaventure University’s Jandoli School of Communication. This trend is up from 22% of Americans in 2025 and 19% in 2024, showing a slow but steady increase in online sports betting interest over the past few years of the survey. A third of Americans (33%) say they have opened an account at least once.

52% of US men between the ages of 18-49 have an active sports betting account.

This is what you get when the sports/media complex goes all-in on gambling.

Hard to overstate how troubling a development this is for fans and athletes alike.

sri.siena.edu/2026/04/13/m...

Organic Intellectuals and Toilet-Paper Fire “All you had to do was pay us enough to fucking live."

This post is blowing up open.substack.com/pub/undiplom...

Predator (1987) w/ Eric Stinton | Ep. 65 Van and Lyle are joined by writer and educator Eric Stinton, whose combat sports columns for Sherdog and essays for Honolulu Civil Beat have long explored how violence reveals deeper truths about cult...

The Predator (1987) was fun as hell to watch (and critique). From gym bro masculinity to homo-eroticism to far-right stabbed-in-the-back myths, this movie was also a prism foretelling our future political dystopia. A great watch w/ @tombstonestint.bsky.social www.bangbangpod.com/p/predator-1...

Are You Numb to the Propaganda Yet? Notes on American exceptionalism, militarism, and the much-needed force of antiwar politics.

“If the language of opposition to one war is the language of much larger war preparations elsewhere, then we are lost. At minimum, it’s a sign of just how hegemonic militarism is in American life.” open.substack.com/pub/undiplom...

The crisis facing most people isn’t who participates in athletics; it’s a very active class war, facilitated by denying equal rights to marginal populations on the grounds of outrage politics. Also fuck you if you want to come at me attacking trans people for any reason

Signs of democracy, baby!

Who Benefits From Far-Right Politics...And Its Defeat? On Orban’s defeat in Hungary and the dilemmas of electoral remedy.

“It’s not immigrants who are making the price of bread and gas go up; it’s your corrupt-ass government. But far-right identity politics distracts from those with power in favor of scapegoating.” open.substack.com/pub/undiplom...

Organic Intellectuals and Toilet-Paper Fire “All you had to do was pay us enough to fucking live."

“Wonks do not come from circumstances that would have exposed them to what it’s like to eat shit in the real economy. Public policy—especially foreign policy—is sterile and its makers are aloof of the active harm it’s doing to growing numbers of Americans.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/organic-in...

Organic Intellectuals and Toilet-Paper Fire “All you had to do was pay us enough to fucking live."

“Wonks do not come from circumstances that would have exposed them to what it’s like to eat shit in the real economy. Public policy—especially foreign policy—is sterile and its makers are aloof of the active harm it’s doing to growing numbers of Americans.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/organic-in...

Organic Intellectuals and Toilet-Paper Fire “All you had to do was pay us enough to fucking live."

“The toilet-paper arson is a byproduct of the oligarchy reflected in the data. And yet the policy wonks who make and interpret data charts are not trained to grasp the pain of living on the losing end of abstractions and logic puzzles” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/organic-in...

Organic Intellectuals and Toilet-Paper Fire “All you had to do was pay us enough to fucking live."

"Joker-core is merely the wounded mutation of what could’ve been a righteous rebellion of the people against the ruling class, and still might be.” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/organic-in...

The Pope and The Pentagon This story hits weirdly close to home.

In the 1980s, the success of the nuclear freeze movement and Reagan’s pivot to arms control had a lot to do with the Vatican campaigning for a nuclear freeze. The Pentagon fears the Pope’s moral authority, and that’s why it threatened the Church www.un-diplomatic.com/p/the-pope-a...

Bridge Colby knows the history here, he’s just on the wrong side of it. In the 1980s, the success of the nuclear freeze movement and Reagans’ pivot to arms control had a lot to do with the Vatican campaigning for a nuclear freeze. He fears the Pope’s moral authority

Bridge knows the history here, he’s just on the wrong side of it. In the 1980s, the success of the nuclear freeze movement and Reagans’ pivot to arms control had a lot to do with the Vatican campaigning for a nuclear freeze. He fears the Pope’s moral authority

Fascist Nuke Fears, Moneyballing Nuclear War, and Risk Factors of Armageddon We should be worried about either the US or Israel using nukes against Iran.

"The same ideological blind spot in Western analysis that accommodates a genocide in Gaza would accommodate either the US or Israel busting the nuclear taboo." @vanjackson.bsky.social is surely right about this, and also reminds us that luck saved us from nuclear war with North Korea in 2017-8.

Fascist Nuke Fears, Moneyballing Nuclear War, and Risk Factors of Armageddon We should be worried about either the US or Israel using nukes against Iran.

We should be worried about either the US or Israel using nukes against Iran. www.un-diplomatic.com/p/fascist-nu...

By invading Iran, the US has committed a strategic blunder that costs lives and steals money from workers everywhere. But also, crucially, the US is in denial about having forced Iran into controlling the Strait of Hormuz—one of the capitalist world’s most important choke points

Are You Numb to the Propaganda Yet? Notes on American exceptionalism, militarism, and the much-needed force of antiwar politics.

“MAGA as an ideology has no aspiration to being hegemonic and is not even a majoritarian project. But American exceptionalism and militarism are hegemonic in American life, and MAGA exploits the hell out of that.” open.substack.com/pub/undiplom...

Are You Numb to the Propaganda Yet? Notes on American exceptionalism, militarism, and the much-needed force of antiwar politics.

“The good guys are, in Gramsci’s language, fighting ‘wars of maneuver’ while losing ‘wars of position.’ In Fanon’s language, we’re dealing with the ‘events’ but not the ‘situation’...The world needs America to revive the antiwar movement” www.un-diplomatic.com/p/are-you-nu...