PickVidsBest Geopolitics & foreign policy Videos
The 144 Geopolitics & foreign policy videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 5 intermediate, 135 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a news piece. What they share is that what remains is the argument of that moment, not a permanent textbook. Channels you will keep seeing include CGP Grey, VICE News, VICE.
This Is What Winning Looks Like (Full Length)
Ben Anderson's VICE documentary shows embedded reporting on Afghan security forces and US Marines in Helmand during the troop drawdown, exposing incompetence, drug abuse and corruption.
Tiedustelueverstin arvio Venäjästä | 3.12.2018
A 2018 lecture, with subtitles available, by former Finnish intelligence colonel Martti J.
The EU Has Orbits, and the UK Fell Out of All of Them
CGP Grey's six-minute explainer of the relationships the UK could have with the EU, based on Barnier's slide, shown as orbits of different closeness.
Gwynne Dyer -- Geopolitics in a Hotter World
Historian and journalist Gwynne Dyer gives a long UBC talk on how climate change will reshape international politics.
Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin
Russian-American journalist Vladimir Pozner lectures at Yale on how US foreign policy toward Russia after the Soviet collapse shaped Putin, then takes audience questions on election interference, the Skripal poisoning and media independence.
Dr Shashi Tharoor MP - Britain Does Owe Reparations
Shashi Tharoor's Oxford Union speech arguing that Britain owes reparations to its former colonies, focused on the effects of British rule in India.
38C3 - From Silicon to Sovereignty: How Advanced Chips are Redefining Global Dominance
A 38C3 talk on how advanced chips are made, centered on EUV lithography and the global supply chain behind it.
Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 1: Ukrainian Questions Posed by Russian Invasion
The first class of Timothy Snyder's Yale course on the making of modern Ukraine.
I Found The Source of the Coronavirus
A 2020 video by laowhy86 arguing that the coronavirus did not originate outside China, pointing to evidence about the Wuhan institute and a possible patient zero.
Propaganda Games: Sesame Credit - The True Danger of Gamification - Extra Credits
An Extra Credits episode on China's Sesame Credit, which gamifies obedient citizenship through a social score.
KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1985 Interview. Explains KGB Manipulation of US Public Opinion
A 1985 interview by G.
FULL INTERVIEW with Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984)
The full 1984 interview with Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB operative, in which he lays out four stages of ideological subversion.
Why Russia is Invading Ukraine
RealLifeLore explains with maps why Russia invaded Ukraine, focusing on energy resources, security buffers, Black Sea access and Crimea's strategic value.
Operation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War | NYT Opinion
A New York Times Opinion documentary tracing Soviet and KGB disinformation, from the 1980s AIDS origin hoax to modern campaigns like Pizzagate.
THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments
A Gamers Nexus investigative documentary on the black market for Nvidia AI GPUs, following smugglers, middlemen, and buyers, including reporting from China.
From the DMZ Into the Hermit Kingdom - Inside North Korea (Part 1/3)
Vice founder Shane Smith travels to North Korea, speaking with refugees in South Korea before crossing the DMZ.
Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer
University of Chicago lecture in which John Mearsheimer argues the West, through NATO and EU expansion, bears primary responsibility for the Ukraine crisis.
China is erasing its border with Hong Kong
A Vox Borders episode with Johnny Harris explaining how China is gradually erasing the line between mainland China and Hong Kong since the 1997 handover.
Call Between Alexey Navalny and FSB Officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev [English Subtitles]
Bellingcat's publication of the recorded call in which Alexey Navalny, posing as a security aide, gets FSB officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev to describe the operation to poison him.
Я позвонил своему убийце. Он признался
Alexei Navalny phones an FSB chemical-weapons specialist, posing as a senior official, and gets him to describe the 2020 Novichok poisoning and its cover-up.
Why China Is so Good at Building Railways
A Wendover Productions explainer on how China built the world's largest high-speed rail network so quickly and why its rail strategy differs from America's.
China & Uighurs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on the Chinese government's treatment of the Uighur people, covering the human rights abuses in Xinjiang and why they deserve attention.
Yuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society (Complete)
A 1983 Los Angeles lecture by KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov on how the Soviets carried out ideological subversion of target societies through propaganda.
CIA Officer in Charge of Taking Down the AQ Khan Network | James Lawler | Ep. 125
A long Team House podcast interview with James Lawler, a former CIA operations officer who led counterproliferation work against the A.Q.