East Meets West with Olga and Tara
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A podcast with Olga Bataman and Tara Reade Together with our guests from both East and West, we explore news, geopolitics and forces driving today’s world
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Jimmy Dore, host of The Jimmy Dore Show, joins East Meets West for the launch of Season 2! 🎯Why is the US military now a ‘paper tiger’? 🎯Why do the US midterms ‘matter 0%’ — and what does the ‘Uniparty’ want? 🎯Why has Trump changed so much between his two terms? This, the war in Ukraine, Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and what Julian Assange taught us about wars — all in our new episode WATCH NOW 👇
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EXCLUSIVE: Tucker Carlson joins East Meets West ◾️ How did Tucker Carlson try to stop Trump from going to war with Iran — and who does Trump blame now? ◾️ Does the new NDAA’s move to merge US and Israeli military intel amount to ‘TREASON’? ◾️ Why does Europe LACK the military capacity to fight Russia? ◾️ Is the US already AT WAR with Russia? WATCH NOW: FULL SHOW
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‘What I believe is ultimately going to happen is that US proxies in the Persian Gulf region will collapse’ ‘They are not strong entities’ ‘The US is growing weaker — and the US has completely ignored their interests in the past month and a half’ Prof. Mohammad Marandi Seyed Mohammad Marandi for the East Meets West podcast This is a throwback to an episode of our show that first aired in April 2026 WATCH FULL HERE
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Jimmy Dore on the connections between ‘Russiagate’ and the US withdrawal from Afghanistan ‘Let’s remember what Russiagate really was’ ‘Russiagate was a way to prime the pump and get Americans ready for the war in Ukraine — which they had in the chamber’ Follow Jimmy Dore and East Meets West for more insightful conversations! WATCH FULL ⬇️⬇️
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Tucker Carlson on Charlie Kirk: ‘I live in a country where the president of the US was assassinated in public next to his wife’ ‘And we can’t even get the files declassified 63 years later’ ‘So I don’t think we are EVER going to get a straight answer’ Tucker Carlson TCN Tara Reade 🐎 Olga Bataman WATCH FULL ⬇️
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‘NATO needs to have an ENEMY. During the 90s, it almost COLLAPSED because we were friends’ Sen. Konstantin Kosachev joins Olga and Tara to discuss: ◾️ Europe’s FIVE STRATEGIC MISTAKES in Ukraine ◾️ The issue with ‘rules-based’ world order ◾️ Whether Russia actually wants any more LAND WATCH OUR NEW EPISODE
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‘A huge COALITION worked together to bring Iran down. They FAILED’ After forty days, it was NOT Iran that saw the ceasefire. It was the US’ — Prof. Mohammad Marandi Watch Episode 10, where Olga, Tara Reade 🐎, and Seyed Mohammad Marandi unpack the failed US–Iran talks in Islamabad
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‘Really this war is a turning point, even though it is not over’ ‘This is probably the most dramatic shift for the US downwards since the WWII, even more so than Vietnam — for different circumstances’ ‘Iran not only was able to protect its territory and prevent the US from even occupying it — but throughout this period, it has been hitting back on all fronts’ Prof. Mohammad Marandi Seyed Mohammad Marandi for the East Meets West podcast This is a throwback to an episode of our show that first aired in April 2026 WATCH FULL HERE
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‘Lindsey Graham NEVER saw a WAR he did not like’ ‘He GLORIED in death, destruction and the exercise of UNRESTRAINED US military power’ Following the sudden death of US Senator Lindsey Graham, Tara and Olga are joined by RICHARD SAKWA, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Kent Can the US war machine be tamed now? Is NATO 3.0 any different from NATO 1.0? How realistic is the promised Patriot production line in Ukraine? And could Britain’s new PM be any worse than his predecessors? WATCH NOW
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‘Lebanon’s resistance has a problem’ ‘The number of people who want to enlist is way higher than required for the battlefield’ ‘The resistance is not eliminated. How are you going to eliminate 2.5mn Shias?’ Marwa Osman on Israel’s invasion WATCH FULL
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‘You know how a rescue operation’s done?’ ‘You fly in a Blackhawk...drop him a ladder’ ‘You don’t bring in at least four C-130s, little bird helicopters, 100+ special forces and rangers’ ‘You could do that to try to grab URANIUM’ — former US Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik
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As Olga attends SPIEF in St. Petersburg, her adventure began already in Moscow Attention, train spotters: take a look at this Starlight Express — but real-life, comfy and with Wi-Fi. And Russian Come to Russia for experiences like this! And follow Olga Olga Bataman for more
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A Russia-Europe war ‘could happen by SEPTEMBER of this year’ ‘Europe is funding a war against MAINLAND Russia, against CIVILIAN infrastructure, against ENERGY infrastructure’ TUCKER CARLSON for the East Meets West podcast Tucker Carlson TCN Tara Reade 🐎 Olga Bataman WATCH FULL ⬇️⬇️
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Olga, Tara and journalist Marwa Osman on Isrаel’s invasion of Lebanon: ‘They just come with bulldozers, DEMOLISH houses and order people to EVACUATE But while people are evacuating — they SHOOT them! Every day, I guess, we’re having these videos’
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‘I went to Minab. I saw the school. I met with family members’ ‘You could sense the loss, the pain’ ‘You could sense the rage — that they sent their daughter to SCHOOL and she should have been SAFE’ Chris Helali for East Meets West WATCH FULL
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‘Israel killed my best friend on April 8’ ‘He had nothing to do with the battlefield’ ‘But they killed him along with 400 other people — kids, women and men in their jobs on that day’ Journalist Marwa Osman on the Israeli op in Lebanon WATCH FULL
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‘This war is going to be won in the MINDS of the Russian civilians and the Ukrainian civilians’ Russia needs ‘to get INSIDE Ukraine’s decision-making cycle and OWN it’ Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, explains the OODA LOOP for East Meets West
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‘Straits of Hormuz are NOT neutral waters’ ‘The US has demanded that Iran just CEDES their territory to the US — which will then be taking TOLLS off of every ship going through and making money on its own’ — former US Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik to East Meets West
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Olga and Tara on the Kiev regime attacking the Zaporozhye NPP: ‘Each time they attack the nuclear power plant, they get one step CLOSER to hitting the REACTOR’ ‘They know that if there is an explosion, the nuclear CLOUD would cover HALF OF EUROPE — going as far as Berlin’
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‘I guess the ENTIRE Ukrainian conflict was started because PALANTIR was needed at this ground’ ‘Palantir not only put AI to work there — but now Alex Karp openly says that Ukrainians HIJACKED their technology’ Viktor Bout Victor Bout for the East Meets West podcast
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