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