1003 - Bored of Peace feat. Derek Davison (1/19/2026)
Chapo Foreign Policy correspondent Derek Davison returns to talk about the decades that have been happening these past few weeks. We stop at Iran and cover the protests and the possible involvement of Israeli weaponry; at Syria, where Rojava and the SDF have all but capitulated to Ahmed al-Sharaa; at Greenland, where the potential of an inter-NATO conflict grows, and in Israel, where Trump attempts to do freemium diplomacy. Finally, we read a piece about the Brandon administration acquiring The Device.
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Stop feeling bad for Kurds getting rug pulled by America.
What is this beautiful song at the end?
The Newsroom chapo review opening :)
Will once again doing cover for directed energy weapons.
This episode has aged like milk since TACO Trump, well TACO'd on Greenland like he has done on everything else guess. Typical yank
They make the board of peace sound kind of like an international version of the apprentice
lol none of the boys could name a residentially dense locality in Greenland
Several former CIA people claim that foreign agents; meaning Israel and the U.S. sent thugs in after the merchants protest started and they were violent and intent on mayhem. Surprised Chapo didn’t pursue this story. When Iran shut down starlink, this failed and they gave up.
Folks, as a rule of thumb I think its safe to say NEVER work with the Americans.
Do you think they made Russian components that can make you happy or is it sad only
Still waiting on the gay bomb tbh
tabahhgo
Trinidad and Trivago
The Fetterman Device
The Havana syndrome gun is real, and it ruined John Fetterman’s Birthday!
Why so much hemming and hawing about whether Israel was actively engaging in counter insurgency in Iran during protests? Of course they were lmao
Insane how fucking ignorant everyone involved in this conversation was lol Wills flippant comment about how greenlanders would be dumb for giving up free healthcare from Denmark, after centuries of colonial oppression including medical experimentation, forced sterilisation etc was particularly egregious. Imagine this conversation about indigenous Canadians or Americans and their relationships with the state. Do you guys just not do any research whatsoever anymore? Just 'What's going on here with this headline I just read guys'
What is your point? Do you think that Greenland should become part of the USA?
I actually hate Dan & Dave
theyre radlibs but I guess so is chapo lol
US mainstream media is constantly trying to gaslight us into being sociopathic. "You don't really care about what you're protesting. You were crying about these dead babies but have nothing to say about these other dead babies? Wow you're hypocrits." Than a Charlie Kirk is murdered and we're suddenly supposed to turn our empathy back on
31:18 oooof.. can’t believe he said “regime” ..like, why even listen to this hack?
I stopped listening immediately.
It’s so obvious and correct unless you hurt him and stand up to him he doesn’t respect you and will take you for everything that’s how rich Americans work
They got that device in the basement of Mara Lago turning James Bond into John Fetterman
It'd be cool if somehow the device was destroyed and all of a sudden Fetterman regains control of himself and is like "oh my God, I hate Israel, and I've been dressing like a slob for years now"
In terms of the UK nuclear deterrent, there is a great episode of We Don't Talk About The Weather (podcast sadly on hiatus atm) which goes deep into how the US controls British nukes. Episode 135: come friendly bombs #weDontTalkAboutTheWeather https://podcastaddict.com/we-don-t-talk-about-the-weather/episode/115741526 via @PodcastAddict
The idea that the left should be protesting the actions of other countries is fucking stupid. Activists on the left protest Israel because they US funds them. We are supposed to be a representative democracy, so it makes all of us look really bad when we quietly sit back and let our government send bombs that end up vaporizing a hospital. We don't bother protesting Hammas because we don't FUND them. Any war crimes they commit don't reflect on us and our leaders are already trying to kill them along with every child nearby. Let's pay Hammas and the IDF $0. These idiot libs and conservatives act like it makes just as much logical sense for us to take to the streets and protsest Puton as it would to protest our governments actions
The device is 100% real. I was exposed to the rays and now i'm fucking gay
Who would've thought that Havana Syndrome was actually Sissy Hypno?!
DTA DTI DTICE
Goddammit right Shrek (;
There’s two kinds of China fans like there’s two kinds of Bills fans. There’s the guys that follow AOR news and track the stats like a maniac and think they know things, and there’s the guys that just think it’s cool to go through tables.
The Biden admin buying a Havana Syndrome machine is like the late stage Nazi regime looking for Thor's hammer to turn the tides of war
kudos to the scam artist who sold genocide joe a Russian ham radio for 8 figures, good hustle
bad luck greenland
Yes Canada is allowing more Chinese EVs but in return China is dropping tariffs on canola. So Canada is sending seed oil to China, which MAGA thinks is poison.
We’re literally living in Avatar. Greenland is a source of unobtainium, and Trump wants to start whaling in the Arctic to look for Amrita.
What was the interpol track that Felix mentioned
He said mind over time but I think he was talking about specialist
Every single “Havana Syndrome,” symptom can be explained as PTSD; which hasn’t been ruled out. They haven’t run any sort of public differential diagnosis and it is entirely sus… however one of my friends who I worked with in production had Gulf War Syndrome which ended up being super specific as we should all hopefully remember so I’m also wondering if there is in fact a cover up of some sort of pervasive chemical exposure or post-viral syndrome that is being found in employees of the state?
Honestly, we should have the British trade the crown jewels for nukes
Probably worth mentioning the massive and peaceful pro-government demonstrations in Iran, which were much larger than the mossad riots that killed innocent people and burned mosques and public buildings
felix vocal fry rapidly approaching kermit the frog
So is Greenland grab mostly pay pal gangsters doing their future cities jerk off through Trump? Like they said it's already covered by NATO
It is theater to keep the maga base dosed up on conflict so that they don’t loose interest
Being a feminist scholar doesn't mean someone isn't a mossad op. 0 respect is due. Do not entertain these games. If there is an earnest belief Trump will be good for feminist liberation in Iran, then the person is stupid as to be worthy of only disrespect. Perhaps she just wants to post support online to the people there idk.
Not only was Andrea Dworkin a huge Zionist piece of shit, she wrote a book which hilariously suggested that women need their own Israel to escape gender oppression.
Stocks down 2% -> taco on Greenland incoming
Take a hedged position on the Prediction Market 🧐
the sad thing is the ‘kurdish administration’ is actually multi ethnic. they had arabs managing their own affairs within the autonomous northeast region. the kurdish project is fundamentally pluralistic and internationalist. a kind of libertarian socialism that represents along with the zapatistas a glimmer of hope in the world for a freer future for people. also to call them a US proxy is to gloss over decades of struggle for liberation. they got some support from the US because they made themselves a powerful player in the area that the US was compelled to deal with
Show me the Greenlandic coin. Name for me a governor of Greenland. Greenland was promised to the USA 300 years ago. The greater US extends to the Russian border. For decades, European welfare queens have robbed value from the private markets through public service offerings. That's our value and we must liberate it for AMERICANS. Once European public services are privatized it will add at LEAST 5-6% growth to the US stock market for at least 5 years. Responsible Europeans will then be able to save for retirement through a 401k investment into the companies that will now profit offering healthcare and other services back to them at market rates. The enslavement of Europeans to bankrupt communist European pension programs will at last be ended. American subsidization of EU drug prices will be ended as their prices are raised to American rates so we are no longer paying the most, but rather an equal amount. Promises made, promises kept. Additionally there is tremendous untapped value in Greece and Italy. Excellent hotels and casinos can be constructed to make these poor desolate places lucrative destinations. The Colloseum, whichever country it's in is very old. It can be renovated into a hotel and casino. Perhaps a Sphere like in Vegas can be placed in the center. It would be cheaper than building a 2nd coloseum like they did in Vegas, so it would both be cheaper and more profitable and more high class. It could be like a second Atlantic City. Europe must be liberated. Israel obviously has claim to the UK, but perhaps Trump could beseech Master Netanyahu to allow us to take ownership of our young cousin to protect it from the Muslim hordes which besiege it. As always, my life for Israel. 🫡 🇮🇱 🇮🇱 🇮🇱
Interpol mentioned 🙏
I guess Trump could kidnap the king of Denmark lol
He should. Unironically. There is functionally no reason for Europe to continue to operate independently. They were happy to go along with attacking Venezuela, Iran, Palestine, Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan. So why shouldn't we take European countries? Their citizens don't seem concerned. They are certainly at less risk than Americans voicing dissent and pressuring a political shift. Who will be left destitute and humiliated as all destitute people are in the US. Since their citizenry doesn't advocate for leadership that breaks from the US, let alone seeks to sanction or at all punish the USA, what is the point of entertaining this illusion of independence beyond their own comfort? They should become vassals and an added source of value for US markets. Suddenly they don't like a unipolar world when it doesn't benefit them? Too bad. Brunch or whatever they call it in Europe is over.
Much like the late Rick James, Trump is a habitual line-stepper.
the Canada thing is that Trump did the BIGGEST fuck you it could possibly do to the Ontario auto industry like real scorched earth shit so okay it's understandable that we're cracking open the door to chinese cars
Magna, the world's largest automotive tier 1 supplier is in Windsor. The us has a lot to lose on this too. But trump has been fucking over us automakers equally as hard. Look up the bright drop. GM made a good electric van and couldn't get them over the northern boarder to tarrifs. Both sides ate shit on that one. We are about to have no new cars in about 5 years from self strangulation.
The fall of the Iranian government would open a portal to hell. We all live in the real world and we all know Israel and the US would be the ones imposing their designs on the country afterwards.
Imperialism really hates that road and belt initiative to link china to Europe through West Asia.
God imagine being able to setup 401k matching into the axis of resistance defense innovation target fund 2070
The world's largest island is also essentially its largest bathtub under the glaciers. Post ice sheet the western half of the island will merge with the ocean and create a large crescent shaped island. Maybe they are hoping to catch the new Atlantic current system in this mega bay.
Leaving out Israel's role in the protests in Iran seems like willful ignorance for folks that should know better?
I saw people with Israeli and Iranian flags on one piece of cardboard, picketing in the US and pumping that Israeli techno music.
I believe the term for a queen's male mistress is "The Hand Beneath the Throne"
They call him maestro
Calling this the Sheridan century.
Denmark did not land a boat in Greenland, they took it in a war with Norway with the 1814 Treaty of Kiel.
Will, Felix, and David all haven't seen LRADs used on protestors the past 8 years? What was used in Venezuela was just a more sophisticated version of an LRAD. What got bought from the Russians could've been a component needed to scale it for military use. Them acting all smug and derisive is a huge L
No Avatar episode :(
most of Europe has populist right-wing coalitions in power who have no qualms about kissing Trump's ass. One swedish minister recently suggested we should get our own ICE.
We must liberate the Sweden.
On campus protest: In Ohio, the Advancing Higher Education Bill (SB 1) gives the university the right to deem a protest as "Disruptive Conduct." So, are hands are zip tied, friends. Perhaps, the fascist universities could announce what they would like us to protest, when, and where. Ya know, free speech.
The UK is entirely dependent on US for its nukes. The manage the tech, we essential rent the missiles. I think maybe own the warheads
The warheads are built to US designs and the US supplies critical components.
Isn't it confronting how easy it is to say "regime" when talking about the revolution in Iran and how quickly the US backed Al Qaeda forces simply become "the government" in Syria? Mainstream propaganda language is helluh infectious.
Last show for me. Good luck everyone and be excellent to each other
Terminal?
I know I shouldn’t be shocked that Trump continues to reach new heights of vanity and petulance but this is really something else. What a stupid piece of shit
when Derek said Aleppo it reminded me of the Gary Johnson bit at the beginning of the Conqueror episode
trump big boss posting
I read the US response to the protests as "you better not kill any protestors or else we will kill even more protestors!"
If people are being beheaded and burned alive in a protest… is it unreasonable to think provocateurs are at play? How pissed would you have to be to actually do that to your countryman?
Gosh...I can only imagine obviously....
I’m convinced the Greenland thing is purely legacy for Trump. He wants a big ole fat addition to the US on a map that will have to be taught as Trumps Purchase or Trumps Deal
One possible reason for all the Greenland shit now is that Danish intelligence supposedly leaked a list of every western intelligence agent in Iran to them, which is what trump is referring to when he says he stopped 800 executions. He probably had to call off the airstrikes in exchange for keeping those guys alive, and now naturally he's pissed at the Danes. This is just one story floating around, though.
Is there a good source for this? Only have seen it on social media.
When the bidet water hasn’t warmed up yet
At it's core Trump likes making deals. Standing up to him pisses him off, and groveling at his feet is just giving tribute. You need enough backbone to hold onto something he wants, but be flexible enough to "cut a deal" with him, and he gets the dopamine hit of wheeling and dealing with a peer. That's why he likes strongman like Putin
holy fuck please please stop talking over each other, it is fucking exhausting and actually difficult to listen to. This guest in particular would just keep going when will attempted to talk over him and it produces an absolute cacophony when they are both going at the same time. There has always brrn a dynamic on this podcast specifically where the amount of time you get to speak is directly related to how willing you are to start talking over someone else but it is particularly noticeable in this one
Why are you so mad
Filthy Brit here. Yes Will I have also read the same articles about how our nuclear deterrent at least for our subs are operated by US software and hardware. I believe it's the launch system?... But obviously allot of the finer details are hush hush. Love the pod, I will ask the king if he will take the states back should you guys collapse before we do.
You can always tell what Felix is reading about by the historical figures he starts name-dropping. Fiorello LaGuardia is a great pull.
"See this baby? (Slaps hood) You can make 100 CIA agents cry in 5 minutes with this thing."
*evidence of their own actions*
EU leaders just want to chill, care only about their own country, you should know better since that is your understandable defense of Mamdani
Country is different from a city. Unless we are talking about ancient Greece or some shit. Being mayor is not the same being a feudal lord.
Just classic color revolution shit in Iran. Any person who prays for American intervention in their country for regime change is a demon who has sold their soul to the Great Satan (knowingly or unknowingly).
Now we are talking
Huge Interpol pull by Felix here. Our Shah to Admire
re: which country did trump invade next? odds must be weighted towards Syria. there are no political repercussions whatsoever for attacking Syria. we already have troops there, anyway.
need war nerd
SLOP0L!
Nuuk has four hours of daylight in the winter and in the summer Greenland has mosquitoes an inch long. No American is going to emigrate there.
I'm from northern Michigan that sounds like my childhood.
I wonder if the Havana Syndrome device used components from the World's Oldest Vault.
One may well hate to hand it to the French, but their explicit policy on use of atomics is when one must. And it gladdens my heart.
I have located the Havana Syndrome device. It has been proven to cause deep despair, feelings of hopelessness, general unease, and potentially thoughts of self harm: https://files.libcom.org/files/Georg%20Wilhelm%20Friedrich%20Hegel%20-%20The%20Phenomenology%20of%20Spirit%20(Terry%20Pinkard%20Translation).pdf
I think the funniest, most unexplored aspect of this conversation in Iran is Rudy Giuliani praising the MEK while shittalking the Shah and SAVAK as illegitimate thugs who will never have the support of the people. Not sure what that means, was really hoping the show would tell me how to exactly feel about it because I'm stumped.
Havana syndrome my ass! They released a recording of the so called ‘sonic attack’ and it was proven to be crickets 🦗 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/510834v1
I would gladly trade a cricket for 8 figures though!
I love how when the Shah is mentioned in discussion of the Iran protests on social media, all these gifs of Frank Vincent are posted in response.
I've drank too many beera, I'm eating soup, and I've got work tomorrow. All I want t o be is El' Chapo.
If I was Iran I'd find some way to leverage regional influence to convert or back my currency with the Yuan/Ruble or some basket thereof. Either through some resource access and arms purchases, free trade zone, w/e they want. Then arm Hezbullah to the teeth like the US did ISIS/AQ. Because when the Iran proxies were strong no one messed with Iran. I'd sell this as an analog for the other world powers to let Iran be the Israel equivalent for Russia or China in the ME. Because I bet it's worth a lot to Russia to not have a 90M population, near-nuclear Syria buffered by only Georgia on their border
Armenia and Azerbaijan erasure
Where’s the avatar 3 episode Id raise a billion dollars for that!
Derek laughs at every fucking thing and it’s so grating
Nah, fuck that, it's what makes the stuff he talks about less depressing.
Pisses me off that its the right that gets to wreck nato
Mind Over Time so damn good hell ya
I wanna open the first jet ski dealership in Greenland!
Felix begins speaking at 1 minute and 14 seconds
Felix begins speaking at 9:54
excuse me who the fuck are you
35:37 ah yes! A triumvirate, a famously stable political governing model. Works out every time, 10/10, no notes
Only thing better is a tetrarchy.
Trump, fundamentally, is a serial rapist at heart. Everything about him is about taking whatever he wants, when he wants, and then is disgusted he raped at the person for being a victim. And is even more disgusted at them if they attack back because he can’t fathom that someone wouldn’t give him whatever he wants. View everything with trump from the lense of a rapist and it all makes sense. Don’t think any further than that. Do t try to parse it using IR theory or strategy. It’s just about rape.
As American as apple pie
Sixth
DD!
I'm gay
CumTown never dies!
*Matt Christman voice* mmhmm
I was just listening to E1 RFK on my way home from work and while I waited for this.
E1 Biden Ep with Felix is GOATd. I felt like I was having some new research chemical tested on me. But I can no longer find it on YouTube and I'm in withdrawal.
Wow
I scrolled to the bottom for this