Hello and welcome to Colonial Outcast, the biweekly podcast where we demonstrate that the next 50 years are fixing to be really stupid.

Hopefully it's only 20, but regardless, it is Monday, or it might be Sunday when we release this January 12th or 13th, and we are only two weeks into 2025.

We've got disturbed veteran attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas, unprecedented wildfires in Los Angeles. It's snowing in Texas. Dallas is looking like the North Pole. Trump is about to start a trade war with Canada. Greenland and the Panama Canal are now on the imperialist annexation hit list. Elon Musk is using a social media platform

X to rewrite history to assert that old Adolf and the National Socialist Party were not

fascists, but in fact, communists, which is ridiculous. But you know, if a billionaire, techno-feudal

anarchist oligarch says it's true it must be true so maybe i was just too

pessimistic a second ago with a 50 year dark age prediction but at least we can all agree that

2025 is going to be really really dumb and we're going to be focusing on trump administration foreign

policy in this episode which which is incredibly absurd,

but it's also not that different from what the U.S. has done historically.

And, you know, the absurdity of it in the modern context ain't going to stop them.

Anyways, I am your host, Greg Stoker.

Mark Wayne couldn't make it today, but we are joined by Alina Xenophantos, geopolitical analysts,

and regular contributor,

pretty much a team member at this point. Now coming to us from London, England. Thank you,

as always. Oh, it's a pleasure to be here and have this conversation. It's going to be an

interesting one. It's going to be a pretty fun one, in a Gallo's humor sort of way. Yeah, definitely. So we've been waiting to do an episode on this

for about a week, you and I, and I'm glad we're finally able to make it happen. But first,

we are colonial outcast and Alina has their own Patreon as well. But we have exclusive content

there on Patreon, live Q&As every week.

We're starting an online book club, I guess, next month.

I guess that's what the patrons I've requested.

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