In the bunker with Darth Putin

Apr 08 2025 31 ep. 56 mins 61

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The Darth Putin Master Strategist podcast recorded from the bunker using a 56k dial-up modem. Features Darth and a co-host, plus frequent guests. You may hear Medvedev snoring drunkenly on the sofa.

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"Do not expect too much from Germany". With Minna Ålander

Apr 08 2025 60 mins

The Prez went 1-1 with Minna Ålander who came back to the bunker to discuss the consequences of the new German Chanceller, Ukraine and the great orange elephant in the room. Minna works at Chatham House and CEPA and focuses on NATO, Northern European security and arctic security and also German-Finnish relations and security. SUPPORT THE CHANNEL - BUY MASTER STRATEGIST MERCH and

"Europe Has Not Woken Up to Russia": Gabrielius Landsbergis - former Lithuanian Foreign Minister

Apr 08 2025 52 mins

We welcomed former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis down to the bunker. He's already been offered tea by the Kremlin and has watch Lavrov slam vodka at a meeting of diplomats. He believes that Europe has not properly woken up to Russia and has not yet made the decisions that are obvious. Gabrielius' stuff: Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/glandsbergis... Twitter:

Former CIA Analyst Holly Berkley Fletcher: White Evangelism, Ukraine & Trump

Apr 07 2025 67 mins

We were joined in the Bunker by former CIA analyst Holly Berkley Fletcher, who spent 19 years working in the CIA’s Africa division. She’s also the author of a book about her experiences growing up as the child of evangelical missionaries in Kenya. We discuss why so many religious people support a man who has broken nearly all of the Ten Commandments—and more. Holly Substack

Jade McGlynn on Russia’s Ideology and Ukraine’s Reality

Mar 05 2025 58 mins

In this special bunker edition, Dr. Jade Selena McGlynn returns to the pod! A British researcher, lecturer, linguist, historian, and author specializing in modern Eastern Europe—particularly Russia—Dr. McGlynn is joining us once again, this time from inside Ukraine. With air raid alarms and power outages as the backdrop, she generously takes a break from her on-the-ground work

Rick Wilson: Trump is serious about Greenland

Feb 07 2025 32 mins

Rick Wilson is in the bunker for a second visit. We talk Trump, MAGA, what it might mean for Ukraine, and what Trump really wants. Rick's twitter https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson The Lincoln Project https://lincolnproject.us/bios/rick-wilson/ Support the channel here: EU Book store: https://darths-eu-webshop-shop.fourthwall.com/en-eur/ All other products & countries: https://darth

Navigating NATO Security Without the U.S.: A Semi-Optimistic Perspective with Anders Puck Nielsen

Nov 13 2024 74 mins

This time, we’ve lured military analyst Anders Puck Nielsen, from the Royal Danish Defense College, into the bunker. Anders is also the host of the hugely popular YouTube channel ‪https://www.youtube.com/@anderspuck We started off feeling a bit gloomy, discussing the future of European security and Ukraine, but managed to cheer each other up along the way. Oh, and Darth is not

Melissa Chan: Could Xi really stop Putin's war?

Nov 03 2024 72 mins

Melissa Chan is an Emmy-nominated journalist based between Los Angeles and Berlin. She has reported everywhere from Cuba to Canada, Mongolia to Moscow, North and South Korea. These days she focuses on transnational issues, often involving China’s influence beyond its borders, as well as the rise of global authoritarianism and ebb of democracies. She is currently writing a graphic

David Gioe, Huw Dylan & Elena Grossfeld: How Russian Intel Serves—and Fails—the Tsar

Nov 01 2024 79 mins

In our largest-ever gathering in "the bunker," scholars David Gioe, Huw Dylan, and Elena Grossfeld discuss their latest article, "The Autocrat’s Indispensable Service: How Russian Intelligence Secured Vladimir Putin’s Regime After Failing Him in Ukraine." With the Prez presiding over the conversation from the end of the long table, we dive into a pressing research puzzle: Why d

Philip Ingram: Ukraine’s Military Outperforms U.S. and China

Oct 17 2024 69 mins

Today's guest in the bunker refers to himself as an “Ex spymaster, specializing in taking over countries." Philip Ingram MBE BSc MA GCLI is a widely published journalist, specializing in the security and intelligence arenas, who has built on a long and senior career in British Military Intelligence, with years of experience in all aspects of intelligence and security as well as s

Keir Giles: Europe should get back from a defense holiday

Oct 13 2024 64 mins

Keir Giles is a senior consulting fellow of the Russia and Eurasia Programme. Previously, he worked with the BBC Monitoring Service and the UK Defence Academy, where he wrote and advised on Russian military, defence and security issues including human factors influencing Russian security policy, Russian strategy and doctrine, the Russian view of cyber and information security, and