https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/20c940d0-83ea-4183-bd5d-64ecf52f5755 Are Russia & China imperialist like the US? Will the decline of the west lead to more fascism in the global north? What is sovereignty? Is every country entitled to it? Where do sanctions fit in? What does it mean that the Global South is refusing to get on board with them? And what are the alternatives to the current so-called rules-based international order? To discuss this and more Rania Khalek was joined by Bikrum Gill, who teaches at the department of political science at Virginia Tech. Follow Bikrum on Twitter @bikrumsinghgill: https://twitter.com/bikrumsinghgill Listen to every episode of Rania Khalek Dispatches anywhere you get podcasts. Apple: https://apple.co/3zeYpeW Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3za9DRK #breakthroughnews TIME CODES 0:30 Intro 2:06 Relevance of imperialism 6:32 China as an alternative: Is China imperialist? 11:14 Projecting European colonialism onto China 15:34 Ukraine proxy war & Western decline 19:39 Is Russia imperialist in Ukraine? 26:02 A changing Global South? 37:19 Resistance movements 40:33 Sanctions 45:20 Racial Capitalism 50:21 Sovereignty 1:00:00 Reparations for imperialists? 1:09:22 Disempowered Americans 1:19:16 Alternatives? Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:13:44 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/20c940d0-83ea-4183-bd5d-64ecf52f5755 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.