1003 - Bored of Peace feat. Derek Davison (1/19/2026)

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🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Chapo Foreign Policy correspondent Derek Davison returns to talk about the decades that have been happening these past few weeks. We stop at Iran and cover the protests and the possible involvement of Israeli weaponry; at Syria, where Rojava and the SDF have all but capitulated to Ahmed al-Sharaa; at Greenland, where the potential of an inter-NATO conflict grows, and in Israel, where Trump attempts to do freemium diplomacy. Finally, we read a piece about the Brandon administration acquiring The Device. Find all of Derek’s foreign policy coverage at: www.foreignexchanges.news www.americanprestigepod.com

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0:00.0	All right
0:02.0	All I want to be is a joke Hello, everybody. It's a job for.
0:33.6	It's Monday, January 19th, and this is your Chopo. On today's episode,
0:40.4	Felix and I are once again joined by our good friend and senior Chopo, Foreign Policy
0:45.5	Correspondent, from American Prestige and Foreign Exchanges. It's Derek Davison back again,
0:50.1	the double D. Welcome back, Derek. Thanks for having me, i'm uh i'm excited to be on i have a new
0:55.5	project i need to raise a billion dollars so that i can become a permanent member of the board
1:00.4	of peace uh so you know if anybody's listening out there and and you want to put together like a
1:06.8	little yeah we're getting to go fund me together on the board of peace um you know i just need to buy my way in and then I think it'll be smooth sailing from there.
1:14.7	The board of peace reminds me of those, I mean, speaking of podcasts, those podcasts, those
1:19.8	podcasts were 2017 that had like 18 rotating co-hosts.
1:26.7	It's like, it's a cast of thousands.
1:29.5	We're kicking Djibouti out because some unsavory DMs have served.
1:36.5	For $1 billion, you can be in a discord with President Donald Trump.
1:41.5	Here are all his personal uncensored thoughts and opinions.
1:45.0	Notably, he's very reticent about sharing those things just publicly.
1:50.2	The forbidden refs.
1:52.3	Right, right.
1:53.1	Edition.
1:54.9	Obviously, having you went there like, obviously to take a break from focusing on the
2:00.0	ongoing occupation of America to talk about
2:02.1	some of the other things that are happening in the world today.
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