Sep 102026
Putin's Advice to Trump: Stop Helping Ukraine
Alexander Mercouris tells Alex Christoforou that Ukraine's military situation is deteriorating fast in every respect.
Podcast: The Duran
32 articlesAnalysis articles from this podcast.
Sep 92026
Reading the Iran War as a Designed Trap: Fertilizer, Energy, and the Squeeze on China
Ryan Perkins, joining The Duran for the first time, opened with the origin of his hypothesis: he began writing shortly after the war started in March because the initial picture did not look right to…
Sep 82026
Hard Cop, Soft Cop, Empty Hands: Washington Runs Out of Ukraine Leverage
Recorded September 8, 2026, two days after the Kremlin confirmed Putin's three-hours-ten-minutes meeting with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and their onward leg to Kyiv, this Duran episode is a led…
Sep 72026
Three Seats Short: The AfD's Perfect Night in Saxony-Anhalt
Recorded the day after the Saxony-Anhalt state election, this Duran episode works one result into a verdict on the whole German system: the AfD outpolled even the most optimistic surveys with almost…
Sep 62026
The Strait Closes Again: Iran's Deal Camp, the FT's Russia Timeline and the Ghost of Raisi
Recorded as US-Iran military operations restart, this Duran episode is organized around one chokepoint and one question: who actually controls the Strait of Hormuz?
Sep 52026
Out of Money, Out of Missiles: Trump's Bill, Europe's Empty Purse and Zelensky's Last Train
Recorded three days after Ukraine's big drone strike toward Moscow failed to break through, this Duran episode is a war-economy broadcast built on one reading: the money and the missiles are running…
Sep 42026
A Gang-Up in Bishkek: The Ceasefire Pressure, the Bloc That Flinched, and the Alliance That Held
The Duran's two hosts return from the Bishkek SCO summit with one story told three ways: what happened in the room, who sent the pressure, and what it did to Russia's map of friends.
Sep 32026
From a Kyiv Shootout to a Seized Ship: The Escalation Meant to Pull America Back Into the War
The Duran's two hosts read the week's Ukraine news as one connected machine.
Sep 22026
From a Hundred-Year Concession to Hotel California: Ray Zucaro on the Debt Crisis Just Starting
Bond manager Ray Zucaro returns to The Duran the month the bond market finally got everyone's attention — co-host Alexander Mercouris opens with his tell: people who never think about markets are sud…
Sep 12026
Two Crises, Two Bubbles: Jeffrey Sachs on a Hegemony That Won't Admit It's Over
Jeffrey Sachs joins The Duran to read the whole Western moment through one frame: the powers that ran the world for two centuries no longer run it, and everything else — the Ukraine narrative, the Ir…
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