The world is shifting in unpredictable ways. The old order dies of smoke inhalation in a dumpster fire. The new one has yet to be lifted out by C-Section.

The only thing that can save us is podcasting. More of it. Longer. Harder. More esoteric. More riffs on the Thirty Years War. Bigger tangents into the exact mechanics of USAF recruitment in Tallahassee.

As our old sense-making apparatus breaks down, as the world on which unipolarity once relied goes tits up, we’ve decided it’s time to raise our eyes from the trough of news-analysis, and think about the big picture now emerging from the Persian Gulf.

The Pod to End All Pods is a three episode collaboration between Multipolarity, and our two most requested guests – Malcolm ‘Juche Respecter’ Kyeyune - and Amerikanets, the anonymous Substacker who uncovered the implausibility of Trump’s Venezuela Raid.

The results were incendiary and interminable. They spoke for three hours — which we’ve decided to carve into three separate episodes.

Last week, in the first episode, we spoke about the Air War — the debaseification thesis, as laid out by Amerikanets. In other words, how Iranians are systematically denying the US its regional airbases by killing personnel and hitting assets on the tarmac.

How the Reaper drones that put the fear of god into America’s enemies in the 2010s are now undergoing their own holocaust in the skies over Iran.

This week, in part two, we get round to The Systemic-War Thesis. The idea that, like World War I, or the Napoleonic Wars, the Hormuz Crisis has become a conflict that pulls in every actor within a closed system — and only stops at mutual physical exhaustion.

Finally, next week, in part three, we’ll take on Europe, America and the political fallout. Is the old world about to be dragged into this, much against their will?

All this and more, as the crisis takes shape.

They said it would be over by Christmas — and this show just about will be.