The China Summit, & the Terrible New CT Strategy | EYES ON GEOPOLITICS
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
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00:00 Start
00:30 China Summit
07:05 Iran: The Looming Conflict
13:58 Counterterrorism Strategy: A New Approach?
27:06 The Flaws in Counterterrorism Strategy
32:08 The Role of Soft Power in Counterterrorism
38:02 Israeli National Security Post-October 7th
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Aizond Geopolitics. |
| 0:03.8 | I'm joined today with Mark Polymeropolis, two Greeks for the price of one. |
| 0:08.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:08.7 | No Marines, thank God finally. |
| 0:12.2 | No, everyone's had a pretty inventful weekend, so we weren't able to record yesterday. |
| 0:16.7 | So we grabbed one. |
| 0:17.6 | We needed to get something out because it seems like it's been a bit of a wild news week. |
| 0:22.9 | First and foremost, there's a ton of stuff we're going to talk about. |
| 0:26.5 | First thing is the China Summit. |
| 0:28.9 | As far as all the reporting goes, it seems like nothing really fucking came of it, frankly. |
| 0:34.9 | The Iran war was looming the whole time over it uh obviously china was still you know |
| 0:40.0 | digging their heels in and when it comes to taiwan president trump statements really like |
| 0:45.5 | his like interviews and stuff like that with the press were not you know he was basically i don't |
| 0:50.0 | know it sounded like he was spinning a little bit for china which is kind of crazy he has this |
| 0:53.9 | weird thing where he uh whenever he goes and meets a dictator, he, like, falls in love with him and, like, he becomes, like, their number one pal. So it was just an interesting thing. The news was covering, like, you know, minute to minute and, like, nothing happened, more or less. Like there was a lot of like yeah we'll agree to |
| 1:11.6 | talk about this we'll agree to maybe talk about soybeans and Boeing like in jets and stuff like that |
| 1:16.4 | and AI chips or whatever but nothing concrete came out of it um also we're looking at you know |
| 1:23.8 | the iran war is still going on straight at Hamoos is essentially still blocked |
| 1:27.5 | inflation's creeping up here in America slowly but surely gas is obviously a lot or |
| 1:33.4 | higher and Europe it's like crazy I've heard and so there's a word that the |
| 1:41.1 | Iranians are thinking that like it's going to start up in the next 48 hours. |
| 1:45.3 | B.B. had a phone call with Trump, I think over the weekend to discuss next steps and stuff like that. |
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