On this week’s Breaking History, Gordon and I dive into the geopolitics of power, finance, and space with a sprawling discussion that begins with Russia’s Kiev-born special economic envoy Kirill Dmitriev. We trace his rise from Stanford and McKinsey to Goldman Sachs to orchestrating Russian privatization schemes during the 1990s, his WEF connections, and his surprising pivot toward fostering U.S.–Russia–China cooperation.
The hosts explore Dmitriev’s ties to Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the Saudi purge of 2017 (after the mass shooting in Las Vegas that was purportedly a cover for a serious attempt on MBS’ life), and how those moves reshaped global finance, tech, and even Twitter’s role as an intelligence weapon.
The conversation blends hard geopolitics with philosophical reflections on peace, the space economy, helium-3, quantum computing, and humanity’s capacity for redemption. We also spent a surprising amount of time analyzing the origins of Flat Earth theory.
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Author 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 have 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).