I’m Pyotr Kurzin, host of The Global Gambit. I’ve spent years working across Africa and Eastern Europe with the World Bank and the International Crisis Group, and trained in strategic studies and economic statecraft at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
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Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics
Guys much of my professional exp came working the issues of the UN, and with Trump's super informative, inspiring speech, lets have a stream youtube.com/live/N_HEvsxdiGc?si=0L6GSTYuyax89tXn to attempt to some analysis of it...but also Iran, Ukraine and other dynamics.
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Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics
Hows your election going Putin
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Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics
If you’re in the UK, I’ll be on BBC News covering Russias elections, NATO escalations and Putin’s deepening desperation. Subscribe to the clips channel to watch the recording youtube.com/@pkurzinclips?si=s_p6B6DC0p_IcVJj
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Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics
Should the CIA play a bigger role in ending the Ukraine war?
Watch what Putin was really told: https://youtu.be/ONtf-baJEk0 as you might have missed it.
Reports suggest CIA Director John Ratcliffe could become more directly involved in Washington’s negotiations with Russia and Ukraine. His secret trip to Moscow reveals the message now being delivered behind closed doors — that Putin’s war is failing and his position will only deteriorate the longer it continues.
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Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics
Arrived back from Canada to this milestone so appreciate all of you - be that newcomers or longstanding supporters.
Watch this latest video for an EPIC conversation https://youtu.be/y50uWvxGb-A
See you in the next one ♟️
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Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics
60 km.
That is the extent of Putin’s gains in the past 3 years of all out war.
And that’s without even mentioning the territory he has lost, lives cost, and destruction of the Russia as a whole…
He remains a master strategist.
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Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics
How big a deal is the AfD German election result? And should l do a video about it?
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Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics
Will / Should Canada join an extended EU or group of middle powers?
Am in Canada (aye) for a wedding, but I’ve now started a weekly summary of every interview and analysis on the show going directly to your inbox so sign up here:
open.substack.com/pub/pyotrskurzin
While in Canada, if there’s anyone you’d like me to try and get on the show drop me a comment below.
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Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics
**IS PUTIN LOSING THE COUNTRIES KEEPING RUSSIA AFLOAT?**
In this week’s video, I look at one of the clearest signs yet that Vladimir Putin is becoming increasingly isolated—even from the countries he believed he could rely upon:
https://youtu.be/CVx9EDraOgw?si=efsjG...
At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit, India’s Narendra Modi publicly told Putin that the war must end. This matters because India is not a Western adversary: it has bought more than $170 billion of Russian oil since 2022 and helped keep Russia’s economy afloat.
But Modi also needs Washington, and India is unlikely to sacrifice its relationship with the world’s largest economy for a partner whose usefulness is declining.
So, was this simply diplomatic theatre? Or does it suggest that even Putin’s most important partners now believe his position is becoming unsustainable?
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Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics
**HAVE CHEAP DRONES CHANGED THE BALANCE OF MILITARY POWER?**
In Episode 1 of my latest conversation with General David Petraeus, we explored how Iran and Ukraine are exposing a fundamental weakness in the Western way of war:
https://youtu.be/6jlMfZc2b4o?si=kxHwB...
Iran remains militarily outmatched, yet drones, missiles and control of the Strait of Hormuz have given it what Petraeus calls a “weapon of mass disruption.” Ukraine, meanwhile, is deploying thousands of unmanned systems every day and transforming the battlefield faster than NATO can adapt.
Petraeus argues that the future of warfare is now largely unmanned—and that Western militaries remain dangerously unprepared for it.
So, have cheap drones permanently eroded America and NATO’s military advantage? Or will conventional firepower remain decisive?
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