The Donroe Mocktrin

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Arts, Music

4.2 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Our thoughts on the wars, foreign and domestic, covering Greenland, Canada, China, Venezuela, EU, NATO, Israel, Minneapolis, the consolidation of neo-fascist lumpen imperialism

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Show notes:

EU’s “anti coercion tool”, the Trade bazooka, turns against Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/world/europe/greenland-us-trade-war.html

Estonia's suppression of Russian minority: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/russia/article/2025/03/26/estonia-s-parliament-bans-local-voting-for-non-europeans-targeting-russians_6739540_140.html

Israeli War Keynesianism:

https://jacobin.com/2025/09/israel-war-economy-reservist-compensation

https://www.972mag.com/israel-genocide-economy-gaza-war/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-rolls-out-tax-benefits-to-lure-back-tech-talent-and-investments-after-gaza-war/

https://www.boi.org.il/en/communication-and-publications/regular-publications/monetary-policy-reports/monetary-policy-report-first-half-of-2025/

Rise of Nazis and a capitalist ‘Dual State’, not dual power: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/renee-good-ice-immunity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/trump-executive-order-lawlessness-constitutional-crisis/682112/

https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/politics/the-fork-in-the-road-2/

Song: Andrew Bird - Dear Old Greenland

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, how's it going, Sean?
0:05.8	Very good.
0:06.4	I'm excited to be back in my old stomping grounds.
0:09.9	Back in Manhattan, I used to work down here for many years.
0:13.7	And it's good to be back.
0:14.8	Yep, our new studios in Manhattan.
0:16.3	No more of that outer borough bullshit.
0:18.2	Bullshit.
0:19.2	We went from...
0:20.0	Back in Tammany territory. We went from being racist troglodytes of the outer borough bullshit. Bullshit. We went from... We went from being racist troglodytes of the outer boroughs to enlighten
0:26.4	cosmopolitans of the Bright Lights big city.
0:29.2	Back to where my ancestors were and probably a lot of your ancestors too.
0:33.3	Everyone was kind of here at some point or another.
0:35.5	I think so, yeah. Lower Manhattan, definitely.
0:38.9	Yeah, it's nice down here.
0:40.9	I think someday we should, maybe someday soon, we should do a bonus about North Brooklyn losing the mandate of heaven and the mandate of heaven moving back.
0:52.3	The hipster mandate.
0:53.3	Yes, the hipster mandate moving back to.
0:55.5	Probably somewhere around when Vice bought those DIY venues and ran them into the ground.
1:01.8	Well, that was what, like 2017?
1:04.4	No, it was earlier than that.
1:06.1	Yeah.
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