The Narrative: Arctic Alliance, Breaking Free of Closed Systems, Controlled Oppositions and more
This week, I was invited to be the guest for Burning Bright’s The Narrative in order to carry out a deep-dive into the shifting geopolitical landscape.
The episode opens with BB’s trademark cultural commentary before steering into a sprawling conversation on U.S.–Russia dynamics, the evolving multipolar world, and why Americans may need to rethink everything they’ve been taught about global alliances.
I shared some insights from my recent trip to Russia, the cultural pulse inside the country, and the growing appetite for collaboration over conflict.
Together we explore Putin’s relationship with history, the controlled-opposition dynamics shaping East–West tensions, and how Arctic development could unlock a future of cooperation rather than catastrophe.
From the failures of past global revolutions, to the potentially transformative impact of a U.S.–Russia–China Arctic corridor, this episode pushes beyond headlines and narratives, inviting listeners into a hopeful, complex, and often hidden story about what comes next.
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Bio: I am the editor-in-chief of The Canadian Patriot Review, Senior Fellow of the American University in Moscow and Director of the Rising Tide Foundation. I’ve written the four volume Untold History of Canada series, four volume Clash of the Two Americas series, the Revenge of the Mystery Cult Trilogy and Science Unshackled: Restoring Causality to a World in Chaos. I am also co-host of the weekly Breaking History on Badlands Media and host of Pluralia Dialogos (which airs every second Sunday at 11am ET here).
The Reality of Modern Governance
It is now a well-known and easily demonstrated fact that the members of the United States Congress—and the State Legislatures— do not read, evaluate, or debate the vast majority of the legislation on which they vote.
Each year, approximately nine thousand bills are introduced— at a rate of roughly fifty-five bills every day. Many of these bills exceed five hundred pages of text. And no human being, no matter how committed, can evaluate tens of thousands of pages of legislative text per day. This is not speculation.
As a result, legislators have no choice but to vote "as recommended by staff."
Not as directed by the people.
Not after deliberation.
Not through constitutional debate.
Thus, the permanent bureaucracy—unelected, unaccountable, and unknown to the public—has effectively become the mind guiding the hands of the elected lawmakers. And we the people suffer the result as we are completely removed from making the decisions that determine our future.
If the future is the same as the past we will have more wars, more taxes, more "medical" interventions, more laws and more complications and schools that do not even teach children how to read.
We are at their mercy, and by reasonable measure they have no mercy for us.
ironic