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Geopolitics & foreign policy Videos Recommended on Hacker News (144)
Geopolitics & foreign policy is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 144 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2011 and 2026 — 244 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
International affairs: foreign policy, China, Russia, Ukraine, Middle East, Israel and Palestine, NATO, sanctions, diplomacy, Taiwan, wars and interventions, international organizations.
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8 mo on HNThis Is What Winning Looks Like (Full Length)
VICE
7 HN recommender · 2014–2023
8 mo on HNTiedustelueverstin arvio Venäjästä | 3.12.2018
fin_topsu
14 HN recommender · 2022–2024
8 mo on HNThe EU Has Orbits, and the UK Fell Out of All of Them
CGP Grey
7 HN recommender · 2019–2023
7 mo on HNGwynne Dyer -- Geopolitics in a Hotter World
The University of British Columbia
4 HN recommender · 2018–2023
6 mo on HNVladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin
Yale University
10 HN recommender · 2020–2023
7 mo on HNDr Shashi Tharoor MP - Britain Does Owe Reparations
OxfordUnion
8 HN recommender · 2017–2023
5 mo on HN38C3 - From Silicon to Sovereignty: How Advanced Chips are Redefining Global Dominance
media.ccc.de
5 HN recommender · 2025–2026
5 mo on HNTimothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine. Class 1: Ukrainian Questions Posed by Russian Invasion
YaleCourses
6 HN recommender · 2022–2025
5 mo on HNI Found The Source of the Coronavirus
laowhy86
6 HN recommender · 2020–2023
6 mo on HNPropaganda Games: Sesame Credit - The True Danger of Gamification - Extra Credits
Extra Credits
7 HN recommender · 2015–2018
4 mo on HNKGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov 1985 Interview. Explains KGB Manipulation of US Public Opinion
20th Century Time Machine
4 HN recommender · 2021–2025
4 mo on HNFULL INTERVIEW with Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984)
Nicholas Marshall
4 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HNWhy Russia is Invading Ukraine
RealLifeLore
10 HN recommender · 2022–2022
5 mo on HNOperation InfeKtion: How Russia Perfected the Art of War | NYT Opinion
New York Times Opinion
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
4 mo on HNTHE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments
Gamers Nexus
4 HN recommender · 2025–2026
3 mo on HNFrom the DMZ Into the Hermit Kingdom - Inside North Korea (Part 1/3)
VICE
3 HN recommender · 2013–2023
4 mo on HNWhy is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer
The University of Chicago
9 HN recommender · 2022–2025
3 mo on HNChina is erasing its border with Hong Kong
Vox
4 HN recommender · 2018–2019
3 mo on HNCall Between Alexey Navalny and FSB Officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev [English Subtitles]
Bellingcat
3 HN recommender · 2020–2024
3 mo on HNЯ позвонил своему убийце. Он признался
Алексей Навальный
3 HN recommender · 2020–2021
3 mo on HNWhy China Is so Good at Building Railways
Wendover Productions
4 HN recommender · 2018–2021
3 mo on HNChina & Uighurs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
LastWeekTonight
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HNYuri Bezmenov: Psychological Warfare Subversion & Control of Western Society (Complete)
GBPPR2
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
3 mo on HNCIA Officer in Charge of Taking Down the AQ Khan Network | James Lawler | Ep. 125
The Team House
2 HN recommender · 2022–2024
3 mo on HNChai Jing's review: Under the Dome – Investigating China’s Smog 柴静雾霾调查:穹顶之下 (full translation)
Christopher He
3 HN recommender · 2015–2018
3 mo on HNThe Secret Chinese War for Your Opinion!
serpentza
3 HN recommender · 2018–2019
3 mo on HNBlack Hat USA 2013 - OPSEC failures of spies
Black Hat
3 HN recommender · 2016–2019
3 mo on HNThe KGB, The Computer and Me - The Cuckoo’s Egg Story
Australian Phoenix CyberOps
3 HN recommender · 2024–2025
3 mo on HNThe Origins of Russian Authoritarianism
Kraut
3 HN recommender · 2022–2023
3 mo on HNPandora's Box, E1: The Engineers' Plot
nagualdesign
3 HN recommender · 2014–2025
3 mo on HNIs the EU Democratic? Does Your Vote Matter?
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022
2 mo on HNUnderstanding the rise of China | Martin Jacques
TED
1 HN recommend · 2018–2019
3 mo on HNThe US-Canada Border Is 5,500 Miles of Pure Nonsense
CGP Grey
3 HN recommender · 2016–2020
3 mo on HNYanis Varoufakis with Professor Noam Chomsky at NYPL, April 16, 2016 | DiEM25
DiEM25
3 HN recommender · 2016–2024
3 mo on HNThe Five Freedoms of Aviation
Wendover Productions
3 HN recommender · 2018–2023
3 mo on HNChina’s Vanishing Muslims: Undercover In The Most Dystopian Place In The World
VICE News
3 HN recommender · 2019–2022