STRAT | 07 SEPT 2026 | The Other 1989
Could the geopolitical upheavals of 1989 offer a roadmap for understanding what is happening today? In this episode of STRAT, retired Marine intelligence officer LtCol. Hal Kempfer revisits two defining events of that extraordinary year: the Tiananmen Square protests in China and the collapse of the Berlin Wall. He examines how governments that once appeared firmly entrenched confronted economic pressure, popular unrest, and rapidly changing political realities. Kempfer then turns to today’s strategic landscape, exploring mounting pressures facing Iran, Cuba, and Russia and asking whether…
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