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Hosted by Luis · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 13 episodes
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The Axis is a weekly podcast that explores the shifting balance of global power. From Washington to Moscow, Beijing to New Delhi, each episode dissects the strategies, rivalries, and alliances shaping our world. Blending clear analysis with accessible language, The Axis connects breaking news with long-term geopolitical trends, helping listeners understand not just what is happening, but why it matters.
Luis hosts The Axis, a news show with 13 episodes published.
Donald Trump may be one of the most disruptive figures in modern American politics—but what if he is not the real problem? This analysis looks beyond Trump to the deeper forces that made his rise possible: declining inst
Is Elon Musk really the story, or is he simply the latest symbol of a civilization searching for certainty? Inspired by a recent New York Times opinion video, this analysis goes beyond the man to explore why modern socie
When empires begin to decline, their elites do not always try to save them. More often, they protect their wealth, negotiate with emerging powers and prepare private lifeboats for the world that comes next. From the Hell
Is Donald Trump simply an incompetent president, or does his politics follow a deeper and more destructive logic? Through Freud’s concept of the death drive, this analysis examines Trump’s compulsion to repeat: premature
In “The Iranian Mirror: Trump’s War Against His Own Reflection,” The Axis examines the war against Iran as more than a military confrontation. Iran has become a mirror reflecting Trump’s own political methods: pride, unp
The wars in Ukraine and the Persian Gulf appear to be separate conflicts, but what if they share the same underlying reality? In this episode of The Axis , we explore the emergence of an "empty centre" in international p
A tribute to the United States on its 250th anniversary: not a sentimental celebration, but a symbolic reflection on a wounded republic. This episode explores America as promise, contradiction, empire, and unfinished sen
In this episode of The Axis , we look at the deeper lesson of the Iran war: the rise of Hormuz as a political actor. The Strait of Hormuz is no longer just a route for oil tankers. It has become a symbol of the new geogr
In this episode of The Axis , we examine why the U.S.–Iran “truce” should not be understood as real peace, but as an architecture of fear. The agreement may stop direct confrontation for now, but it does not resolve the
In this episode of The Axis , we ask a different question about the conflict in the Persian Gulf: not who is winning militarily, but who is winning symbolically. The United States may hold the stronger military hand, but
In his first Cuenta Pública, José Antonio Kast does more than report on the state of the nation: he constructs a political fantasy of order. Chile appears as a wounded body, damaged by disorder, crime, migration, economi
In this episode of The Axis , we examine the U.S.–Iran oil crisis as a symptom of a deeper imperial fragility. The barrel of oil appears on market charts as a price, but behind that number lies a hidden architecture of s
This week on The Axis, we examine the symbolic meaning behind the departures of Tulsi Gabbard, Pam Bondi, and Kristi Noem from the orbit of Donald Trump. Beyond the headlines, the column explores what these resignations
A psychoanalytic reading of the Iran war’s hidden grammar: inflation, Trump’s dismissal of Americans’ economic pain, and the reported Israeli clandestine outpost in Iraq are treated not simply as political events, but as
A symbolic reading of the upcoming Trump–Xi meeting in Beijing, where diplomacy becomes theatre and power is performed as much as negotiated. The analysis argues that the summit matters not only because of possible agree
A joke, a gunshot, and a president speaking the language of war: the Kimmel–Trump episode reveals how unstable the border between satire, symbolic injury, and political violence has become. Kimmel’s “expectant widow” jok
This column draws a parallel between the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and the challenges faced by modern naval power in asymmetric warfare. By linking religious symbolism, Lacanian theory, and contemporary geopol
In the aftermath of the Islamabad talks, diplomacy appears to proceed even as escalation deepens. This episode explores how negotiations, symbolic acts, and religious language operate within the same strategic field. Dra
Description A clear and accessible analysis of the Iran conflict as a political and symbolic test for Trump. The piece argues that the issue is not immediate defeat, but a growing tension between his message of control a
Description This column explores how governments can become trapped in their own frameworks of rationality, losing sight of the realities they claim to manage. Drawing on Lacan, Bataille, and Alien, it argues that overco
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