Decoding Geopolitics

Decoding Geopolitics Podcast with Dominik Presl

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Decoding Geopolitics is a podcast that tries to make sense of today's dangerous world by talking with real experts on international relations, strategy and security.

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Nov 14, 2026

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Episodes

Ukraine Frontline Analyst: Russia’s Army Is Being Torn Apart - And It Keeps Getting Worse 14.11.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Emil Kastehelmi, a military analyst and co-founder of Black Bird Group - a Finland-based independent intelligence organisation. Emil just came back from an extensive field research trip to the...

CIA North Korea Expert: Kim Jong Un Is Pulling Off Something Impossible 07.11.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Dr. Jung Pak - a former senior analyst at the CIA where she specialized on North Korea and who later served as the Special U.S. Representative for North Korea in the Biden Administration. Toda...

Michael Clarke: Russia Is Making Its Final Desperate Move - And This Winter Will Decide Everything 01.11.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Michael Clarke, a military analyst, a visiting professor of Defence Studies at King’s College London and Defence Analyst at SkyNews - and this episode is a deep dive into all the chaotic devel...

Timothy Snyder: America Has Chosen to Self-Destruct - And Russia’s Real Problem Is Just Beginning 24.10.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Timothy Snyder - a historian working on Central and Eastern Europe, politics of Russia and Ukraine and democracy and the threats it faces. We talk about the spectacular shift of the United Sta...

Iran Expert: The Next Round of War Is Coming - And It Will Be Far Worse This Time 17.10.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Dr. Vali Nasr, a Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins University, specializing in Iran’s foreign policy and grand strategy.  Seven months in we are at a...

Margaret MacMillan Warns: The World Order Is Collapsing - And What's Coming Is Far Worse 10.10.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Margaret MacMillan, a historian and emeritus professor at the University of Oxford, whose latest work is focusing on the changing of the world order - the collapse of the rules based order tha...

Ex-CIA Covert Ops Expert: What Europe Gets Wrong About Russia’s Hybrid War 04.10.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with David Gioe - a Professor of Intelligence and International Security at King’s College London and a former member of the US intelligence, serving in the CIA and specializing in clandestine oper...

Russia Expert: The Real Reason Why Putin Needs the War - And Why It Won't Stop in Ukraine 26.09.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Michael Kimmage, a Russia expert, the director of the Kennan Institute who previously served at the US Department of State, where he was responsible for the Russia/Ukraine policy planning. And...

Imperial Collapse Expert: The Real Reason Empires Fall - And Why America Is Next 19.09.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Peter Heather - a professor of history at the King’s College London and the world’s leading authority on the fall of the Roman Empire. Now this might sound a bit random since this is a podcast...

NATO's Ex-Military Chief: War With Russia Is Coming - And We're Running Out of Time 12.09.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ ➡️ Check out Adm. Bauer's book: https://www.amazon.nl/You-Want-Peace-Prepare-War/dp/9046833992 This is a conversation with Admiral Rob Bauer, a former Chief of Defence of the Dutch Armed Forces and until last year, t...

Ukraine War Expert: The War Just Entered a New Phase - And It's About to Get Really Dangerous 05.09.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with George Barros, director at the Institute for Study of War and a long time Russia analyst with a deep insight into the war in Ukraine. He and his team believe that over the past 3 years, the wa...

Dalibor Rohac: Something has changed about America. It Will Reshape the World - And There’s No Going Back 31.08.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Dalibor Rohac - former fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, now Director of Research at Globsec, and the author of a new book called Unshackled - in which he puts out a pretty serious...

The Professor Who Predicted the Iran War: This Is How America's Era Ends - And It’ll Only Get Worse | Robert Pape 22.08.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ ➡️ Check out Professor Pape's newsletter:https://escalationtrap.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Robert Pape, a political scientist at the University of Chicago who spent the bulk of his career studying exac...

Ex-CIA Analyst: America Is Choosing to Self-Destruct. And It Will Only Get Worse 15.08.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Julia Curlee, who spent 25 years in U.S. national security, including 20 years as a CIA analyst, serving at the National Security Council and briefing senior U.S. officials. She recently left...

Ukraine's Top Drone Expert: This War Is Not What You Think - And The Reality Is Far Worse 08.08.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1804519707 ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Illya Sekirin and in my view, one of the most unique conversations I’ve had on the podcast so far. Illya is U...

Military Intel Officer: Russia Is Losing Crimea - And There's No Way Out 01.08.2026

➡️ Watch the full ad-free interview on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Philip Ingram, a former high ranking officer in the British military intelligence. In his career, Philip has planned and executed countless operations around the globe and that’s why he’s the...

This Is What Happens if Russia Invades the Baltics - And America Refuses to Help 25.07.2026

➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://dub.sh/Patreon-Ruben-Stewart ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Ruben Stewart, Senior Fellow for Land Warfare at the IISS, about a a single question: what would happen if Europe had...

Thomas Eder: China Doesn't Need to Fight America. It’s Preparing for Its Collapse Instead 18.07.2026

➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Buy your own Geopolitics of the Western Pacific Map Print: https://decoding-geopolitics-shop.fourthwall.com/ ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation wit...

Most Replayed Moment: Yale Historian on Why 2026 Is Eerily Similar to 1914 15.07.2026

➡️ This is a clip from an interview with Odd Arne Westadt. You can access the entire interview ad-free on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/

Eric Heginbotham: How China Could Take Taiwan Without Firing a Shot - And Why It Could Catastrophically Backfire 11.07.2026

➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Buy your own Geopolitics of the Western Pacific Map Print: https://decoding-geopolitics-shop.fourthwall.com/ ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/This is a conversation with...

Most Replayed Moment: Ben Hodges Explains How Ukraine Turned the Tide of War 08.07.2026

➡️ This is a clip from an interview with Ben Hodges. You can access the entire interview ad-free on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/

The Reporter Embedded with Zelensky: This Is His Real Plan to End the War 04.07.2026

➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a conversation of Simon Shuster, a journalist and an author of The Showman , a biography of Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensk...

James Paterson: Why a New Islamic State Is Silently Rising in Africa - And Why Europe Will Pay the Price 01.07.2026

➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/ This is a Conversation With James Paterson, a research associate at the Lowy's Institute, focusing on terrorism and jihadist organisat...

Most Replayed Moment: Michael McFaul on Why the Iran War Is Such a Huge Blow to America’s Credibility 29.06.2026

➡️ This is a clip from an interview with Michael McFaul. You can access the entire interview ad-free on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my geopolitics newsletter: https://decodinggeopolitics.substack.com/

Mark Galeotti: Why Russia Is Finally Starting to Crack - And Kremlin Is Running Out of Options 27.06.2026

➡️ Watch the full interview ad-free, join a community of geopolitics enthusiasts and gain access to exclusive content on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/DecodingGeopolitics ➡️ Sign up to my free geopolitics newsletter: https://stationzero.substack.com/ This is a conversation with Mark Galeotti, director of Mayak intelligence and one of the greatest living experts on modern Russia - and we talk ab...

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