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George Orwell’s “As I See It” Podcast Slot – June 27, 2025

Intro music fades, Orwell’s voice, gravelly and deliberate, cuts through...

'Good evening, listeners. This is George Orwell, and this is my five-minute take on the world as it stands—raw, unfiltered, and as I see it.

Let’s start with the global situation. Power, as ever, breeds conflict. The world’s great powers—America, China, Russia, and their satellites—jockey for dominance, cloaking their ambitions in moral rhetoric. The wars in Ukraine and Gaza are not isolated tragedies but symptoms of

a deeper rot: the eternal scramble for control, resources, and narrative. Both conflicts, though distinct, share a common thread—great powers using smaller nations as chessboards, while the human cost piles up like so much collateral damage.

Ukraine, now in its third year of war since Russia’s invasion, is a grim tableau of attrition. It began with Putin’s imperial delusion—restoring a lost empire, crushing a neighbor’s sovereignty under the guise of “security.” NATO, led by the U.S., fuels the resistance with arms..

Ukraine, now in its third year of war since Russia’s invasion, is a grim tableau of attrition. It began with Putin’s imperial delusion—restoring a lost empire, crushing a neighbor’s sovereignty under the guise of “security.” NATO, led by the U.S., fuels the resistance with...