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Tatsu’s Newsletter Podcast

Hosted by Tatsu Ikeda · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 143 episodes

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Tatsu Ikeda hosts Tatsu’s Newsletter Podcast, a news show with 143 episodes published.

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Day 97: Mojtaba Emerged. Trump Wants to Meet Him.

Jun 5, 202623m0

Bloomberg: $35/month. Financial Times: $42/month. The Economist: $17/month. Original analysis by Tatsu with 30+ footnotes: $8/month, 14-day free trial. This post is public. Share it with anyone still describing the Iran

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Geopolitical Risk Assessment: April 2026

Jun 1, 202612m0

CLASSIFICATION: Professional Analysis, Institutional Clients PREPARED: 2026-03-30 | COVERAGE: February 28 to March 30, 2026 | WORD COUNT: ~10,500 REPORT TYPE: Monthly Strategic Assessment Professional geopolitical intell

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Day 89: Bandar Abbas, Ali Al-Salam, and the Fifty-Minute Cycle

May 28, 202620m0

Bloomberg: $35/month. Financial Times: $42/month. The Economist: $17/month. Original analysis by Tatsu with 40+ footnotes: $8/month, 14-day free trial. This post is public. Share it with anyone still describing the Iran

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FPV Drone Interception

May 28, 20264m0

(00:00:00): An FPV suicide drone rushes straight towards you. (00:00:03): Instinctively, you raise your rifle and open fire, but the drone is too fast and too small. (00:00:09): Your bullets can’t hit it, and in the end,

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Vladislav Surkov: Part 4 Inventor of the Operating System That Runs Modern Authoritarianism

May 27, 202620m0

He didn't destroy democracy. He made a copy of it that he controlled. And then the copy went global. In Part 1 of this series, we traced the biography of the man: a half-Chechen theater student who reinvented himself int

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Day 82: 42 Aircraft, 5 Reopened Doors, and 4 Republicans

May 27, 202622m0

Bloomberg: $35/month. Financial Times: $42/month. The Economist: $17/month. Original analysis by Tatsu with 30+ footnotes: $8/month. Share this with anyone still describing the Iran war as "winding down." Three numbers f

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Day 87: Iran Won the Corridor. The US Ran Out of Tungsten.

May 26, 202617m0

Bloomberg: $35/month. Financial Times: $42/month. The Economist: $17/month. Original analysis by Tatsu with 30+ footnotes: $8/month. This post is public. Share it with anyone still describing the Iran war as a ceasefire.

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Day 75: Trump Came to Beijing as a Buyer

May 19, 202620m0

Bloomberg: $35/month. Financial Times: $42/month. The Economist: $17/month. Original analysis by Tatsu with 30+ footnotes: $8/month. Share this with anyone still describing the Beijing trip as a peace summit. Air Force O

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Day 74: The UAE Is Now an Active Combatant

May 17, 202622m0

Bloomberg: $35/month. Financial Times: $42/month. The Economist: $17/month. Original analysis by Tatsu with 30+ footnotes: $8/month. Share this preview with anyone still describing the UAE as a non-combatant. Three days

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Vladislav Surkov: Part 2 Inventor of the Operating System That Runs Modern Authoritarianism

May 13, 202622m0

In Part 1 of this series, we traced the biography of Vladislav Surkov: the half-Chechen theater student who reinvented himself as the most powerful political operative in modern Russia, built the machinery of Putin's sta

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Vladislav Surkov: Part 3 Inventor of the Operating System That Runs Modern Authoritarianism

May 13, 202622m0

In Part 1 of this series, we traced the biography of the man: the half-Chechen theater student who remade himself into Putin's most powerful political operative. In Part 2, we examined what he built inside Russia: "sover

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OpenClaw et al., AI Capability Is Solved. Security Hasn't Started.

May 12, 202619m0

This post is public. Share it with anyone who builds with AI. Full disclosure: I am a digital builder, but I am also a healthy skeptic of technology. While I don't believe yet in an AI apocalypse, there are definitely go

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Day 71: The 38th Parallel Just Caught Fire

May 10, 202620m0

Bloomberg: $35/month. Financial Times: $42/month. The Economist: $17/month. Original analysis by Tatsu with 30+ footnotes: $8/month. This post is public. Share it with anyone still watching cable news for Iran war analys

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Day 65: Hormuz Is the New 38th Parallel

May 10, 202621m0

Bloomberg: $35/month. Financial Times: $42/month. The Economist: $17/month. Original analysis by Tatsu with 30+ footnotes: $8/month. Share this preview with anyone who thinks "ceasefire" means peace. On July 10, 1951, th

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The Commentariat, Part 2: Why Media Is Dead and How to Fix It

May 1, 202622m0

April 10, 2026 "All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out." I.F. Stone "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything e

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How OpenAI's Trillion-Dollar Economy Pays Itself

Apr 29, 202621m0

April 1, 2026 I have a theory that I would like to prove to you. In the beginning, land was the original resource and the world was lit up by Sperm Whale oil harvested from New Bedford, Massachusetts. Investors poured mo

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The Commentariat, Part 1: Why Your Favorite Analyst Is Wrong

Apr 29, 202614m0

April 8, 2026 "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." Linji Yixuan, 9th century In April 2022, Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector turned Russia commentator, declared that "Russia has won this war." In Ap

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Claude Opus 4.7 & I Saved a 60 Person Company From Cyber-Annihilation

Apr 28, 202617m0

This post is free. Share it with anyone who builds, defends, or leads a security team. Substack is abuzz with "How to REALLY use AI", and they are cute primers on how to "Make Claude/ChatGPT Your Personal Assistant!". Al

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Day 38: Trump's Four Walls Are Closing In

Apr 28, 202615m0

April 7, 2026 Three days ago, an F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down over western Iran. The crew ejected. One was rescued from Iranian soil. The other was not. What began as a rescue mission has become a ground war. OSINT r

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Day 55: Why Iran War May End Like Korean War

Apr 24, 202622m0

Bloomberg: $35/month. Financial Times: $42/month. The Economist: $17/month. Original analysis by Tatsu with 35+ footnotes: $8/month. This post is public. Share it with anyone still watching cable news for Iran war analys

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