Hello and welcome to Colonial Outcast, the anti-imperials podcast that has had way too much crap to talk about and not enough time to do it in.

It is February 18th, and we are seeing Titanic policy shifts in Europe and West Asia, well, East Asia as well, but we won't have too much time for that as the Trump administration takes a more aggressive diplomatic stance towards Taiwan independence as the island nation, territory, whatever you personally consider it to be, explores a $10 billion U.S. arms deal to secure Trump's

support. Trump being obsessed with countries paying their own defense budgets to his satisfaction,

which will bring in Europe and the bombshell that he, that the bombshells that have been

dropping about US-EU policy over the past couple weeks.

Anyways, today will be Lebanon. Some developments in Syria. Palestine is always a brief post-mortem

on the Munich Security Council last week that signals a landmark shift in European security

architecture and a breaking of the transatlantic world.

Some might argue I would as well.

And the current peace talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, between the U.S. and Russia regarding the

termination of the war in Ukraine.

Oh my God, it's a lot. It's going to be quite the discussion. And we are

joined for our weekly geopolitical roundup by regular contributor, Alina Xenophantos, no longer coming to us

from Cyprus instead of the more inhospitable realm of Albion, specifically London.

Thanks so much for coming on this evening.

Oh, yeah, it's great to be here.

It's gonna be a very interesting episode today's fun times.

Yeah, so much fun talking about the inflection point

where the entire global order is shifting way faster

than we can keep on.

So, for the plug, we are trying to expand and hire a producer for better production quality

and to actually pay contributors and build this out into a more professional platform.

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