Episode Details

- US continues strikes on Iranian maritime shipping, continuing its disruption of energy exports from all of West Asia particularly to China and the rest of Asia;

- Recent US strike on an Iranian wedding has been used as an opportunity to sell long-standing US ambitions to create ethnic division within Iran to undermine the nation;

- Russia is deploying anti-drone measures around energy production/storage infrastructure indicating the rising costs of US-directed drone and missile strikes;

- The Western media is helping spin and justify cultural genocide in Ukraine's Russian-speaking city of Odessa;

References:

Guardian - ‘Unimaginable grief’: Iranian town left devastated after US strike on wedding (Sep. 4, 2026):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/iranian-town-kuhestak-devastated-strike-wedding
Brookings - Which Path to Persia? (2009):
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
RAND Corporation - Extending Russia (2019):
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR3000/RR3063/RAND_RR3063.pdf
BBC - Majority Russian-speaking city in Ukraine considers language ban in the arts (Sep. 6, 2026):
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33kzvgn8pyo
BBC - China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from families (2019):
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48825090
NYT - The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership (Dec. 2025):
https://archive.ph/8s49D

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