Geopower, Energy Realpolitik
Geopower, Energy Realpolitik examines how energy, markets, and geopolitics converge to define global influence in the 21st century. Each episode dives beneath the headlines — from nuclear renaissance and energy security to AI-driven grid demand and rare-earth dependencies — to reveal how power is negotiated, traded, and weaponized.
Todd Royal
Hosted by energy and geopolitical expert Todd Royal, who understands both the boardroom and the war room, the show translates complex global energy dynamics into clear, compelling narratives. Listeners gain not just information, but insight — a strategic understanding of how today’s energy decisions are redrawing tomorrow’s world order.
This is not a show for slogans or ideology. It’s for those who want to understand how pipelines, ports, and policies shape empires and elections alike. With an analytical style reminiscent of Foreign Affairs and the storytelling pace of The Economist, the program dissects the hard realities behind the world’s energy transformation — the deals, rivalries, and shifting alliances that define modern power.
Each week, we connect the dots between capital markets, national strategy, and technological disruption — making sense of the global energy chessboard, one move at a time.
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America Out Loud Network © – Geopower, Energy Realpolitik examines how energy, markets, and geopolitics converge to define global influence in the 21st century. Todd Royal understands both the boardroom and the war room.
Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – Wind power is promoted as clean, reliable, and affordable, yet evidence tells a different story. Intermittency weakens electric grids, environmental damage is widespread, costs continue to rise, and offshore wind projects face mounting failures. This episode examines the technical, ecological, and economic realities behind industrial wind energy and questions its role in a sustainable future…
Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – The episode reframes the debate around Venezuela and Greenland. The point isn’t “power for power’s sake.” The argument is that the U.S. is acting like a state that believes it must secure its near abroad and its strategic interests before rivals do. That logic is not new. It runs through the Monroe Doctrine lineage and shows up explicitly in the…
Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – If Venezuela represents enforcement rather than rhetoric, what comes next? How should we interpret growing U.S. concern over cartels, transnational crime, human and sex trafficking, and state corruption in countries like Mexico and Brazil? Are these law-enforcement challenges—or national-security threats now falling under the same hemispheric doctrine?
Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – A core theme of the episode is economic impact. Jim walks through how nuclear plants deliver long-term benefits across multiple dimensions: stable tax bases for counties and school districts, thousands of high-paying skilled jobs, sustained regional economic activity, and decades of reliable baseload electricity. He references the Economic Impact…
Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – Renewables have not ushered in prosperity—they have destroyed competitiveness, destabilized grids, and accelerated geopolitical decline. Europe is the test case, and the results are catastrophic. This episode makes the argument plainly: Renewables are dead. Fossil fuels remain dominant. And the nations that accept this reality will…
Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – What you’re watching now is a long, cynical effort by Western elites to hide their own failures behind a forever-war narrative. The same political class that has run Britain, France, Germany, the EU, and Washington into stagnation and crisis is desperate to avoid accountability when the bill for Ukraine finally comes due…
Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – Todd shows how political fantasies about 100% renewables collide with materials limits, cost structures, and physical constraints. This leads into a breakdown of U.S. power-demand forecasts, referencing new research from Grid Strategies, EPRI, and DOE scenario modeling. All three converge on the same conclusion: the US is entering an era of…
Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – Todd and Doomberg examine how NATO’s leverage is eroding, not because of battlefield conditions alone, but because Europe imports almost all its essential energy, leaving its cost of capital, industrial competitiveness, and geopolitical autonomy dependent on foreign suppliers. Natural gas is the clearest example: high import prices and a lack of…
Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – Democratic capitalism depends not just on markets or politics, but on the moral-cultural foundation that enables growth, innovation, and freedom. When the moral-cultural system (climate virtue signalling, identity politics, de-industrialisation) overtakes the economic system, affordability and growth suffer…
Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – The stakes extend far beyond municipal governance—this election signals how urban energy policy, infrastructure resilience, and geopolitical considerations (from LNG supply to semiconductor-driven data-center demand) are now front-and-centre in big-city contests. With McKinney-based data centre expansions and grid load forecasts pointing to…
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