"These countries like Vietnam, North Korea, China ... former Stalinist, or former Maoist, they're one party, authoritarian, *states-capitalist* systems."

#PaulBuchanan, political scientist, former Pentagon Analyst, 2026

https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/20/avfa-podcast-the-end-of-the-liberal-internationalist-order-and-the-rise-of-illiberalism/

It's so vindicating to hear someone from Buchanan's background say this. Like most anarchists in Aotearoa, I've been saying this since the 1990s, if not longer.

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"The liberal international order was built for and by white men. Post-colonial, because it really kicked off after WW2 ... but it was made for them. The rules are made for the colonial powers. So the deck was stacked against the Global South."

#PaulBuchanan, 2026

https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/23/podcast-a-view-from-afar-defining-a-way-forward-when-the-world-is-in-chaos/

I think AVFA is going to be one of my regular podcast listens this year. Far more insight per edition than the Bradbury Bunch, and they're shorter and less frequent.

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"It was never envisioned that a democracy would stage a foreign diversion from mounting domestic troubles ..."

#PaulBuchanan, former Pentagon Analyst, 2026

https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/30/avfa-podcast-a-deep-dive-into-the-us-israel-war-in-the-middle-east/

So EITHER;

* this claim is wrong; governments of any style, with domestic troubles and a military hardware to depreciate, will do it

OR

* the analysis is correct; military adventurism is a red flag that a government's accountability to its citizens has collapsed

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Just listening to Manning and Buchanan talking about Syria;
https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/02/podcast-conflict-expansion-and-opportunism-within-a-lame-duck-window/

After listening to Campbell and Stewart comments on what's happening in Syria, and then this, I'm calling it;

We are now living through #WW3.

Why do I say this? Because a few months ago there were 3 separate proxy wars in 2 separate regions; the Syrian civil war, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and IDF genocide in Gaza. Now they're all joining up at the edges.

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