Abandoning our allies in Syria

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben discuss Trump’s decision to pull US troops out of Syria and let Turkey begin a military campaign against the Kurds, a key US ally in the fight against ISIS. Then they try to understand why Republicans are only willing to criticize Trump’s Syria policy, explain why the NBA and Chinese government are fighting, and try to understand why Gordon Sondland, the US Ambassador to the European Union, was part of the quid pro quo with Ukraine. Finally they cover the latest on North Korea, Russia and Boris Johnson’s Brexit. Then Washington Post Beirut bureau chief Liz Sly calls in to talk about protests in Iraq and the view from the ground in Syria.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Welcome back to Potsay of the World, I'm Tommy Vittor.
0:12.7	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.9	Ben, it's been an interesting weekend news.
0:17.5	Another great week.
0:18.3	Another great week.
0:19.4	We're going to talk about a lot of stuff today.
0:21.7	We're going to talk about President Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria
0:26.0	and the impending Turkish assault on Northern Syria.
0:29.8	Talk a little NBA news.
0:31.1	Speak of a sort of an NBA podcast because your boys at the end is Cantor.
0:34.2	But they had a little dust up with China over the issue of Hong Kong.
0:37.7	With a little impeachment news with a special focus on Trump's utterly unqualified U.S. ambassador
0:42.6	to the European Union, dip in the North Korea.
0:45.7	Talk about a special treaty that helps us monitor Russian military movements
0:49.4	and a secretive Russian military unit that does really fun stuff like assassinations and espionage.
0:56.2	So that's terrifying.
0:57.6	And then we'll check in on our friend Boris Johnson over in the UK.
1:01.3	Our guest today is Washington Post, Bayrubiro Chief Liz Sly.
1:04.8	She called in to help us understand the view from the ground in Syria.
1:08.7	And then this building protest movement in Iraq that's not gotten a lot of coverage.
1:12.6	But could be a really...
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