Europe stands on shaky ground. With Trump floating “peace plans” for Ukraine, Putin pressing his advantage, and NATO allies second-guessing their future, uncertainty is the only constant. In this episode of The Focus Podcast, Dr. John Bruni speaks with Commander Anders Puck Nielsen of the Royal Danish Navy — one of Europe’s sharpest military analysts.

Show Notes:

Connect with Anders

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anderspucknielsen/

Bluesky: @anderspucknielsen.dkHis ‘Logic of War’ Newsletter: https://www.logicofwar.com/

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@anderspuck

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Mexico’s cartels aren’t just crime syndicates—they’re power brokers shaping politics, security, and the U.S.–Mexico border. In this episode of The Focus, Dr. John Bruni speaks with Stefano Ritondale to unpack the rise of the Sinaloa Cartel, CJNG, and Gulf Cartel—and what their influence means for North America.

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Show Notes

Connect with Stefano:

X: @All_Source_News

Artorias: https://www.artorias.com/leadership

Podcasts & Interviews:

Stefano featured on Cleared Hot podcast (Episode 373) where he discussed cartel violence, organised crime, and Latin American security as an intelligence expert.

He also appeared on The Distinguished Savage Podcast (Episode 319), exploring Mexican cartel dynamics.

Print/Online Interviews & Commentary

In an interview with Rolling Stone published in February 2025, Ritondale offered expert commentary on how cartel leaders perceive government protection and the implications of being labeled terrorists.

Recent Media Mentions

Most recently, in a Defense Feeds article (July 2025), he provided insights into how Mexican cartels are training in Ukraine to utilise FPV drones, indicating the rising sophistication of cartel tactics.

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Yale professor Samuel Moyn joins us to explore how drones, AI, and precision strikes have transformed modern conflict. Based on his book Humane, this conversation asks whether efforts to make war more “humane” have sidelined the goal of peace itself.

Show Notes:
Connect with Sam
Yale: https://law.yale.edu/samuel-moyn Website: https://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn/
Books by Sam:🆕 Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times (2023)

A critique of Cold War-era liberal thinkers who, in Moyn’s view, stripped liberalism of its utopian and transformative aspirations — leading to the more constrained version we see today.

🧠 Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (2021)

Explores how efforts to humanize war — through legal and technological means — have helped make war more acceptable and therefore unending.

📉 Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (2018)

Argues that modern human rights discourse has focused on minimum protections rather than addressing global inequality and distributive justice.

Articles by Sam:
Casus Belli, Harper’s Magazine, August 2025.
America is over Neo-Liberalism & Neo-Conservatism - Trump is not, The Guardian, July 2025.
The United States and the Human Rights Presidency, June 2025.

Previous Episode with Sam:
https://sageinternational.com.au/the-focus/humane-war-making-a-better-world/

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