Western Fracturing as Post-War Alliances Strain? with Dr Jan Oberg

Interview recorded - 18th of July, 2025On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Dr Jan Oberg. Jan is a sociologist, peace researcher & the director of Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research.During our conversation we spoke about his views on geopolitics, the Western decline, 5% NATO defence spending, Russian invasion of Europe, splitting of alliances and more. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction0:54 - Views on geopolitics8:20 - Western decline16:05 - 5% NATO defence spending21:35 - Russia invading Europe?26:55 - US, Europe & BRICS blocks?31:05 - One message to takeaway?Dr Jan Oberg is an internationally experienced and genuinely independent peace and future researcher and an art photographer – a columnist, commentator and mediator doing diagnosis, prognosis and proposing solutions.Dr Jan Oberg - Transnational: https://transnational.live/Website: https://janoberg.me/X: https://x.com/janoberg?s=21&t=vCJTBKSb-nIJ8eFKe0YAxgWTFinance -Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas