On nuclear exterminism.
To commemorate our 300th episode, we discuss how the world is closer to a nuclear conflict than at any point since the Cold War. After decades of inconsequential 'permawar' (at least inside the Western bubble), the proxy war in Ukraine between NATO and Russia is suddenly very consequential indeed.
How does our situation differ from that of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis? Why might it be more unpredictable? Does today's very different ideological configuration make war more or less likely?
Before that, we reflect on five and half years of Bungacast, how the world has changed over the period, and pick out some of our favourite episode from the past half-decade.
The main discussion begins at 23mins.
Readings:
Excerpt: /105/ The Lorax & the AK-47 ft. Leigh Phillips
/104/ The Aristocracy of Finance ft. Alexander Zevin
Excerpt: /103/ Three Articles: The Future!
[UNLOCKED] /77/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 2
/101/ UK Election: A Disaster Foretold
/100/ What Was the End of History? ft. Many Guests
Excerpt: /99/ Proof in the Pudding
/98/ Painful Politics ft. Jennifer Silva
/97/ Bungacast Analytica ft. João Magalhães
Excerpt: /96/ Three Articles
/95/ The Fall of Rojava? ft. Dani Ellis / Alexander Norton
Excerpt: /94/ Reading Club 2: Anti-Politics
/93/ Hot Chile and Other Neoliberal Failures ft. Pablo Pryluka
Excerpt: /92/ Three Articles
/91/ Exhaustion Revealing ft. Leigh Phillips
Excerpt: /90/ Work, Bitch ft. Amber A'Lee Frost
/89/ On the Lam: Hong Kong Rebels ft. Toby Carroll
Excerpt: /88/ Vouchers for Toxicity ft. Anton Jäger
/83/ Now It’s Syrizous [UNLOCKED]
Excerpt: /87/ Berluscoming
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