Angry Planet

Jan 20 2025 454 ep. 39 mins 4.2k
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Conversations about conflict on an angry planet. Created, produced, and hosted by Matthew Gault and Jason Fields

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Pete Hegseth and the Surreal World of the Civ-Mil Divide With Phil Klay

Jan 20 2025 57 mins  
Listen to this episode commercial free at https://angryplanetpod.comBetween the idea and the reality falls the shadow. Marine Corps veteran J.D. Vance will soon be vice president. Pete Hegseth, a man with a Crusader Kings tattoo who doesn’t want women to serve in combat roles, is probably going to be confirmed as secretary of defense. Over New Years, two members of the U.S. milit

‘Putin’s Revenge.’ Lucian Kim on Why Russia Invaded Ukraine

Jan 13 2025 51 mins  
Listen to this episode commercial free at https://angryplanetpod.comIt’s hard to read the mind of a dictator, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth trying.When Russian President invaded Ukraine in February of 2022, there were a million columns, videos and podcasts explaining “the real reason” for such a “crazy” move.Well, anyone who tells the story from February 2022 i

Syria, Authoritarianism, and U.S. Politics

Dec 23 2024 51 mins  
Listen to this episode commercial free at https://angryplanetpod.comThis week on Angry Planet writer David Faris joins us to talk about his time in Syria and life in America.David’s travels from Lebanon to SyriaWhen people hoped Bashar al-Assad would change SyriaWhat a real totalitarian state feels likeThe nightmare that follows the collapse of a dictatorshipOnce again, the ugly

A Crash Course on Indian Assassinations and ISIS in Canada

Dec 17 2024 57 mins  
Listen to this episode commercial free at https://angryplanetpod.comThis week Angry Planet turns its attention to Canada. Global News investigative journalist Stewart Bell joins us to walk through his two latest pieces and give Matthew a crash course on Canadian history. What do outlaw motorcycle gangs, extrajudicial assassinations, an Indian separatist movement, and a resurgent Is

U.S. Defense Contractors Are Using ‘Battle Tested in Ukraine’ As a Marketing Label

Dec 04 2024 62 mins  
On today’s episode, I talked to Kollen Post about how and why Silicon Valley markets their drones as “battle tested in Ukraine.” We recorded it on Thanksgiving, Jason was busy spending time with his family, and Post and I went down some weird philosophical rabbit holes.Impromptu drone developersThe Western image of the Ukrainian drone operatorOpen source is kingThe decentrali

North Korea and Russia—A Very Special Relationship

Nov 25 2024 59 mins  
Listen to this episode commercial free at https://angryplanetpod.comNorth Korean troops are fighting alongside Russian ones in Ukraine. Bringing the two together hasn’t all gone smoothly. There are language barriers, cultural barriers, and a whole lot of Russian territory to recover. The results have been mixed, but the partnership points to a deepening of the special relationshi

Don't Fall for Donald the Dove

Nov 14 2024 60 mins  
Listen to this episode commercial free at https://angryplanetpod.comThe planet isn’t going to get any less angry.This week, Aram Shabanian comes on the show again to help us work through what the next Trump presidency may mean for America, Europe, and the rest of the world.Matthew’s hippie metaphor1931 or 1939?America’s allies know it’s all on them nowNorth Korea in Ukraine

A Calm Conversation About Israeli Settlements and Blame vs Responsibility

Nov 04 2024 60 mins  
Listen to this episode commercial free at https://angryplanetpod.comWARNING: This episode contains nuance in the discussion of subjects usually left to screaming and violence!This week we get into a bunch of stuff around Israel that we normally avoid. Settlements. Blame versus responsibility. The definition of colonialism. The social media posts of IDF soldiers. It’s a calm, nuan

Stephanie Baker on ‘Punishing Putin’

Oct 28 2024 58 mins  
Listen to this episode commercial free at https://angryplanetpod.comHow’s that sanctions regime working out for the U.S. and Russia? This week on the show, we have Stephanie Baker, a senior writer at Bloomberg, to try to answer the question. She just published Punishing Putin, a book all about it.What’s a Russian oligarch like in person?How America’s sanction regime against R

King Arthur at the End of the World

Oct 17 2024 54 mins  
Do you ever feel you’re living in a world where all the good stuff happened to the previous generation? Does it seem like America’s best days are behind it? Were you born into an empire just as it began to collapse?Listen to this episode commercial free at https://angryplanetpod.com/We’d like to tell you about King Arthur.The story of Arthur has been told hundreds of times in