1313: Biden and the imperial past / Andrew Bacevich
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🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oh well that's life. |
| 0:03.8 | For it was. |
| 0:06.7 | It's nothing to me. Jekwaiqitur! |
| 0:17.0 | Jekwai! making back! This is hell. |
| 0:37.0 | pretending to know what I'm talking about. Hell. |
| 0:47.0 | Pretending to know what I'm talking about since 1996. This is hell. |
| 0:50.0 | The way presidential candidate Joe Biden told it, |
| 0:52.0 | his administration was going to do what the previous Trump presidency refused to do. |
| 0:58.0 | And that is to stand up to Saudi Arabia and the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. |
| 1:04.0 | Candidate Biden even went so far as calling Saudi Arabia a long time ally and loyal customer |
| 1:09.2 | of the US military weapons industry, a pariah state with no redeeming value. So you knew if |
| 1:16.3 | candidate Biden became a president Biden. Unlike president Trump, he was going |
| 1:20.9 | to come down on the side of democratic values and the |
| 1:24.0 | Saudis would be shaking in their boots. Apparently there was no need for |
| 1:28.0 | Saudi boot shaking or any concern whatsoever for any change in US policy toward the kingdom because all President |
| 1:35.1 | Biden would do is what is known as recalibrating, which means maybe a subtle tweak |
| 1:40.6 | to a relationship, but no threat to its foundations and the essence of |
| 1:44.4 | that US-S Saudi relationship was not challenged by now President Biden's |
| 1:49.1 | condemnation of the assassination while giving Mohammed bin Solomon, who is believed to be the person who ordered the killing, |
| 1:57.0 | giving him a pass. |
| 1:58.0 | MBS's sanctioned henchmen, unless they fall out of favor with the crown prince himself the assassins will |
| 2:04.6 | literally get away with murder our guest today says the |
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