300. Why Ukraine invaded Russia, the Musk-Trump love-in, and Rory’s visit to Afghanistan

The Rest Is Politics

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Why is Elon Musk lashing out against Scotland’s First Minister? What are the tactics behind Ukraine’s advance on Russia? How worried should we be by China’s relationship with Serbia? Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all this and more on today's episode of The Rest Is Politics. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. TRIP UK TOUR: To buy tickets for our October Tour, just head to www.therestispolitics.com 🌏 Get our exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/restispolitics It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✅ Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: [email protected] Video Editor: Teo Ayodeji-Ansell Assistant Producer: India Dunkley Social Producer: Jess Kidson Producer: Fiona Douglas Producer: Nicole Maslen Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:22.0	Welcome to the Restis Politics with me, Alistair Campbell. And with me Rory should.
0:23.6	Now Rory, thankfully the riots have died down a bit, but I think we still need to talk about them.
0:28.1	And not least in the context of social media, I know that you did us all a service by unlike me watching the
0:34.9	Musk Trump loving last night. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about this remarkable
0:39.8	development in the Russia-Ukraine war with Ukraine essentially I hesitate to say
0:46.8	in Vaidi Russia but certainly occupying part a small part of Russian
0:51.6	territory we'll talk about that we then go after a small part of Russian territory.
0:53.2	We'll talk about that.
0:54.1	We then go after the break,
0:55.5	we're going to talk about China and Serbia.
0:57.3	Two subjects that we're both interested in
0:59.3	and a relationship which is developing in a pretty remarkable way and there's something in particular I want to talk about in relation to that.
1:07.0	And then you, three years on from the American withdrawal, you are just back from a visit to Afghanistan so we'll talk about that as well
1:14.1	fantastic so let's start with your I saw your tweet which made me not want to
1:18.7	watch any of it what was your take on Musk Trump?
1:23.0	Well, so as you said, I just got back from Afghanistan and I'm in the state, so I'm on American
1:27.7	time, so it was easier for me to do this.
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