HeyJaredOutside the Academy w/ Dr. Albert Thompson
Using history to dismantle the myths of modern statecraft. A Realist's guide to foreign policy and the uncomfortable truths of power.
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The Political Challenge of the World Wars (opens the original)
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History Is A Test. Everything You Need to Know Is In the World Wars (opens the original)
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Hi I’m Albert Thompson, a historian with a sense of irony who is all about World War One and World War Two, and everything in between. Subscribe to receive my weekly posts.The defining geopolitical crises of the 21st century did not start yesterday or even 2016. Go back 100 years. I write about the World Wars because I can touch on just about every issue we face today.Each week, I return to those thirty years of war—to the great, bloody fracture of 1914 to 1945— because the heat of that furnace
Who Controls the Next Oil Shock: The Seller or the Solvent Buyer? (opens the original)
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Welcome to Friday Flashpoint where I put current events in historical context.The Brief Oil prices are global. Yes, America pumps more oil these days, but the price is still set by global demand. And that demand includes China.The new leverage of China is reducing its own consumption. Without China curtailing its imports, American gas prices would be one-fourth to one-third higher. If Beijing were to return to its pre-March levels of petroleum importation—over 5 million barrels per day (b/d) abo
America “Started” the Cold War Too Late (opens the original)
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Welcome to World War Wednesday, where I expose the stories 1914-1945 and show you why they still matter today.The Brief Western capitals keep treating tech leakage to rival powers like the simple cost of doing business. It’s been a crisis since the 1990s, when they thought bringing China into the WTO would make it a democracy. We never learn. Washington, D.C., acts like the weaponization of the free market by totalitarian adversaries is a new problem invented after the fall of the Berlin Wall. I
The Tariff Trap: Why Swinging the Weapon Destroys the Deterrent (opens the original)
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The BriefWashington, D.C.’s trade policy increasingly mistakes throwing wild flurries for a fight-winning combination. From sweeping universal tariffs to retaliatory semiconductor embargoes, turning market access on and off in a series of heedless punches does not intimidate our adversaries. It acclimates them to the hits, forces them to diversify supply chains, and exhausts America’s leverage.We are rope-a-doping ourselves.An economic threat forces your opponent to negotiate, but carrying out t
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