Background Briefing: October 13, 2026

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Can the Europeans Defend Ukraine as Trump Tries to Sell Them Out With Bribes From Putin While Blaming Ukraine For the Price of Diesel?

We begin with the European reaction to Trump trying to blame Ukraine for the price of diesel as he again sides with Putin to sell out Ukraine with Putin dangling bribes before our greedy imbecile of a president to line Trump and his family’s pockets. Joining us from the Warsaw Security Forum in Warsaw, Poland is Tamar Jacoby, the Kyiv-based director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s New Ukraine Project. She was a senior writer and justice editor at Newsweek and, before that, the deputy editor of the New York Times op-ed page. She is the author of Displaced: The Ukrainian Refugee Experience and she has an article at The Washington Monthly, “Europeans Look for Options as Costs Mount in Ukraine.”

 

Could A Silicon Valley Brologarch Defense Contractor End Up With Their Own Nuke?

Then we speak with Sharon Weinberger, the Editor-in-Chief at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists who has been writing on national security issues for more than twenty-five years. She was the National Security Editor at the Wall Street Journal from 2022 to 2026 and is the author of The Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency that Changed the World, A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry, and Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon’s Scientific Underworld. We discuss her latest book, just out, Valley of Death: How Big Tech is Fueling the Future of War.

 

Can the Youth of India Curb the Religious Nationalist Powers of the Hindu Chauvinist PM Modi?

Then finally we assess whether the youth of India can curb the religious nationalist powers of the Hindu chauvinist Prime Minister Modi whose Electoral Commissioner has just struck 130 million mostly opposition voters from the roles, prompting demonstrations by the youthful Cockroach Janta Party. Joining us is Dr. Sumit Ganguly, the Director of the Huntington Program on Strengthening US – India Relations at Stanford University. His books include India Since 1980, India, Pakistan, and the Bomb: Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia and his latest book is The Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics.