Gordon Hahn: The East-West WWIII Tinderbox & Authoritarian-ization of America
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 25 July 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Gordon Hahn discusses what he calls the New East-West Cold War or Russia-West Tinderbox, which can potentially escalate into a WWIII scenario. He examines the key drivers between the Russia-West divide which is primarily EU/NATO expansion (e.g. Belarus, Ukraine, Donbass), a situation that will continue to fester and could explode at any moment unless it is resolved. He comments on China’s rise as a global hegemon and believes Russia and China will make Afghan inroads as the U.S. withdraws and the Taliban likely come to power. Finally, he looks at the “authoritarian-ization” or “Putin-ization” of America, where neo-liberals, leftists, and big tech have melded with the military-industrial-complex and oligarchic globalists who are pushing the U.S. toward a one-party state. Beyond that, these forces are pushing for some form of transnational or world government.
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Show Notes
The New East-West Cold War https://gordonhahn.com/2021/06/21/the-new-east-west-cold-war
The Russia-West Tinderbox https://gordonhahn.com/2020/11/15/the-russia-west-tinderbox
The New American Communo-Fascism and Its Postmodernist Roots https://gordonhahn.com/2021/04/29/the-new-american-communo-fascism-and-its-postmodernist-roots
Color Revolutionism Comes Home to Roost Amidst Democracy’s Decay https://gordonhahn.com/2021/01/07/once-more-about-home-color-revolutionism-comes-home-to-roost-amidst-democracys-decay
The Authoritarianization (Putinization?) of America https://gordonhahn.com/2020/12/29/the-authoritarianization-putinization-of-america-parts-1-and-2-complete
Websites
Gordon Hahn https://gordonhahn.com
Books https://gordonhahn.com/gordon-hahns-books
About Gordon Hahn
Gordon M. Hahn, Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies (CETIS), Akribis Group, San Jose, California, www.cetisresearch.org; an expert analyst at Corr Analytics, www.canalyt.com; and an analyst at Geostrategic Forecasting Corporation (Chicago), www.geostrategicforecasting.com.
He is the author of the forthcoming book from McFarland Publishers Ukraine Over the Edge: Russia, the West, and the Making of the Ukrainian Crisis and ‘New Cold War. Previously Dr. Hahn has authored three well-received books: The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin: Global Jihadism in Russia’s North Caucasus and Beyond (McFarland Publishers, 2014), Russia’s Islamic Threat (Yale University Press, 2007), and Russia’s Revolution From Above: Reform, Transition and Revolution in the Fall of the Soviet Communist Regime, 1985-2000 (Transaction Publishers, 2002).
In addition, Dr. Hahn has published numerous think tank reports, academic articles, analyses, and commentaries in both English and Russian language media. He has taught at Boston, American, Stanford, San Jose State, and San Francisco State Universities and as a Fulbright Scholar at Saint Petersburg State University, Russia and has been a senior associate and visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Kennan Institute in Washington DC, and the Hoover Institution.
*Podcast intro music is from the song “The Queens Jig” by “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)
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| 0:00.0 | Geopolitics and Empire is joined by Dr. Gordon Hahn, who has quite a lengthy biography. |
| 0:06.0 | He's a senior researcher at the Center for Terrorism and Intelligence Studies, |
| 0:09.6 | an expert analyst at Core Analytics, and an analyst at Geostrategic Forecasting Corporation. |
| 0:15.4 | He's the author of many books, some forthcoming, as well as many publications and has taught at many universities. |
| 0:21.4 | Dr. Hahn, thanks for joining the podcast. How are you doing these days? |
| 0:25.3 | Doing well and thank you very much for the invitation. |
| 0:28.5 | All right, yeah, great to have you here. |
| 0:30.6 | So I thought we would cover essentially two themes on this podcast, which are broad, |
| 0:35.2 | that of the Russia West Tinderbox, as you put it, which is now suppl that of the Russia West Tinderbox, as you put it, |
| 0:38.3 | which is now supplanted by the East West Tinderbox or Cold War, which includes China, |
| 0:43.6 | and what you call the authoritarianization of America or the new American communal liberal fascism. |
| 0:50.2 | So starting with the geopolitical Tinderbox, over the past year, |
| 0:54.0 | we've seen hotspots in the geopolitical Tinderbox, over the past year, we've seen hot spots in the |
| 0:56.1 | Russia West Tinderbox flare up in the Dunbass, Black Sea, Ukraine, Nord C2, NATO expansion |
| 1:03.2 | and war games, Belarus, and on and on it goes. |
| 1:06.0 | And, you know, I have to reiterate, the essays that you publish on your website are i think masterful they're |
| 1:12.1 | lengthy yet they don't waste or mince words and you lay out objectively what is really happening |
| 1:16.9 | so i know there's much to cover but could you give us kind of the key drivers of the russia |
| 1:20.7 | west conflict and what you might expect for the future uh well i will i for years i've been |
| 1:27.0 | saying that the main driver is NATO expansion, and that's |
| 1:32.4 | coupled with EU expansion. So if you look at the, you know, the history of NATO expansion, |
| 1:38.4 | EU expansion, you'll see that approximately eight years after any country signs an association agreement, which is the first step to joining the EU, |
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