Frontlines and Backrooms

Frontlines & Backrooms is a documentary-style podcast about the world’s most complex conflicts — told with context, precision, and humanity.Hosted by journalist Vladimir Bobetić, the series blends lived experience, deep research, and unfiltered conversations with historians, activists, diplomats, and eyewitnesses.From conflict zones to corridors of power around the world — this is a space for nuance in a world drowning in noise.No shouting. No spin. No propaganda.Just conversations that matter.

Frontlines and Backrooms is a news podcast hosted by Vladimir Bobetic, with 61 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Vladimir Bobetic hosts Frontlines and Backrooms, a news show with 61 episodes published.

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  Episode #25

  Dina Matar | Western Media as a Propaganda Tool for Israel

  Jul 22, 20261h 2mS2

  Recorded in December 2025, this conversation remains painfully current. Dina Matar, Professor of Political Communication and Arab Media at SOAS University of London, speaks about the role Western media has played in shaping how Gaza is understood: the erasure of Palestinian history, the reduction of victims to statistics, the use of “both sides” language in a deeply unequal conflict, and the silencing of Palestinian journalists and voices. She describes this as epistemic violence — violence against who is allowed to produce knowledge, whose testimony is trusted, and whose suffering is recognized as human. If you’re tired of noise, outrage and five-minute opinions, subscribe to Frontlines & Backrooms. Every week, we sit down with the people who have spent decades researching, negotiating and shaping the world we live in.

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  Episode #23

  Jeremy Shapiro | Europe Can No Longer Count on America

  Jul 5, 20261h 2mS2

  Just days before the 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara, Dr. Jeremy Shapiro joins Frontlines & Backrooms to discuss the future of the transatlantic alliance. As Washington shifts its strategic focus toward the Indo-Pacific and questions over burden-sharing grow louder, Europe is being forced to confront a difficult reality: can it continue to rely on the United States as its ultimate security guarantor? We discuss NATO, European rearmament, America's strategic priorities, Russia, deterrence, and whether the alliance is adapting to a new geopolitical reality—or approaching one of the most consequential moments in its history.

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  Episode #22

  Nathalie Tocci | America's Great Betrayal: Can Europe Defend Itself?

  Jul 1, 202659 minS1

  For nearly eighty years, Europe's security rested on one assumption: that the United States would always be there. Today, that assumption is being tested like never before. In this episode, Dr. Nathalie Tocci, Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali and principal author of the European Union's 2016 Global Strategy, explains why Europe may have entered a fundamentally new strategic era. We discuss NATO, European rearmament, Ukraine, strategic autonomy, and whether Europe can defend itself without American security guarantees. If you'd like to support Frontlines & Backrooms, consider becoming a subscriber and help us continue producing independent, long-form conversations on the world's most important geopolitical issues.

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  Episode #21

  Benny Morris | Israel and Palestine: 140 Years of Conflict — And Why There Will Be No Peace in Our Lifetime

  Jun 26, 20261h 1mS2

  Six months after its original release, we are publishing our complete conversation with historian Benny Morris as a standalone episode for the first time. From the Nakba and 1948 to Oslo, October 7, Gaza, and the future of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Morris explains why he believes peace is further away than ever. At several moments, the conversation became heated as we challenged each other's arguments on history, Gaza, international law, and the prospects for peace. Whether you agree with his conclusions or not, Benny Morris remains one of the most influential—and controversial—historians of modern Israel. If you enjoy long-form conversations that go beyond headlines and sound bites, follow the podcast and consider subscribing Frontlines & Backrooms through the link in the episode description.

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  Episode #20

  Mark Fitzpatrick | Iran, the Versailles Memorandum, and How the US Lost Its Leverage

  Jun 24, 202649 minS2

  The war may be over, but the debate has only begun. Drawing on 26 years in US diplomacy and decades of work on non-proliferation, Mark Fitzpatrick joins Frontlines & Backrooms to examine the strategic consequences of the Iran war and the Versailles Memorandum. Did Washington achieve its objectives? Did military pressure strengthen or weaken America's negotiating position? And what does the agreement mean for Iran's nuclear program, regional security, sanctions, NATO, and the future of US influence in the Middle East? A conversation about diplomacy, leverage, and the limits of power in a changing international order.

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