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the serious report.com as an SIRIUS. Welcome to Geopolitics and Empire, Paul. Well, thank you

very much for having me. It's much appreciated. Yeah, I've been following your stuff for a while

and I really love what you do.

And maybe for people who haven't heard a serious report, if you want to just tell us a bit about it.

As well as, you know, what is offered there for people who might be interested.

Yeah, I mean, effectively, it kind of was, well, I won't bore people with the reason we started it was a whole bunch of reasons and it was in 2016 and really it was to highlight what we understood at the time and even quite a few years before that

there was going to be this ongoing rise of multipolarity.

At that point, it didn't seem very obvious to many people.

And also correspondingly, what I've referred to as the demise of unipolarity.

And we've just tracked, obviously, the progress of the rise of multipolarity,

and we made statements back in 2016 and said,

look, you're going to see all these developments.

I mean, one example we said was you'll see Saudi Arabia move out in the world of unipolarity,

and it will start to more or embrace Russian and China.

Here we are in 2022, and I think everyone would agree that's most certainly happening.

So what we do on a sort of weekly basis is podcast.

It's subscription-based, and the reason it was subscription-based is we originally thought,

well, we can monetize the content, and we tried, and we were demonetized in half an hour.

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