Hello and welcome to Colonial Outcast, the anti-imperialist podcast that at least one of your

uncles will hate. Specifically, the one who watches Saturday Night Live, Rachel Maddow,

is a member of a $250 a month, Jim, has a subscription to both the New Yorker and Atlantic

magazines and listens to NPR every day. And since about half of our audience is not American,

it essentially just means he's a liberal,

most likely from either the West Coast or the Northeast,

and is therefore pro-Ukraine war and now anti-ethnic cleansing in Gaza,

now that Trump has put out a weird AI video about it.

Yes, today we are doing a rare Sunday episode to leisurely walk through the new U.S.

Ukraine relationship, the media response to the whiplash change in U.S. foreign policy and

potentially the Trump administration's hypocrisy over Taiwan as we eye a $10 billion

arms deal to Taiwan to bolster the longstanding porcupine strategy.

In the recent words of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, quote, to make the cost of invading

higher than the benefit. And of course, we're talking about a potential Chinese invasion across the straight of Taiwan.

All part of this administration's peace through strength motto.

Anyways, it all begins with Ukraine.

To that end, we are joined by regular contributor, Alina Xenophantos, for our weekly geopolitical episode,

as well as Nick, founder of Revolutionary Blackout Network,

citizen journalist, and activist.

You're online at Socialist MMA on Twitter or X.

Thank you so much for taking the time on a Sunday to come on and talk about all this.

Yeah, man, there's a lot of talk about it.

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