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4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week Dr. Tanvi Madan joins the ladies to explain the brewing crisis between India and Pakistan in Kashmir. Then Radha breaks down last week’s trade negotiations with China (what really is an MOU anyway and what happened to our leverage?). We revisit Venezuela as the Vice President prepares for a trip to the region and then discuss the humanitarian and policy implications of the “ISIS wives.” White House Mayhem lives up to its name with uncoordinated Syria policies, rogue nuclear reactor deals, and sad faces in Munich. We’re all enjoying the many escapes offered by Pop Culture.

Links

Kashmir

Emily Lalwani and Emily Tallo, "Driver, Decision, Deilemmas: Understanding the Kashmir Crisis and Its Implications," War on the Rocks
Sumit Ganguly, "Narendra Modi Should Calm Tensions in Kashmir Rather Than Inflame Them," Foreign Policy

It's Aghast

Bob Davis, "Officials Play Down Apperance of Rift Between Trump and Lighthizer on Trade," Wall Street Journal
"US and China Are Sketching the Outlines of a Deal to End the Trade War," CNBC

KUFR

Venezuela

Dennis Romero, "Venezuela's Maduro Cuts Ties with Colombia Amid Border Conflict," NBC News

ISIS women

Meghna Chakrabarti, "Return from ISIS: American Women Want Out of Extremism," WBUR
"The Difficult Diplomacy Involved in Returning Former ISIS Fighter and Their Families," Washington Post
Vira Mironova "Is the Future of ISIS Female?" New York Times
Jayne Huckerby, "When Women Become Terrorists," New York Times

White House Mayhem

Syria

"White House Will Keep About 400 Troops in Syria, Reversing Previous Decision," NPR

Saudi Nuclear tech

"Multiple Whistleblowers Raise Grave Concerns with White House Efforts to Transfer Sensitive U.S. Nuclear Technology to Saudi Arabia," Oversight
Alex Ward, "House Dems Reveal. New Info on a Shady White House Plan to Sell Nuclear Tech to Saudi Arabia," Vox
"The Hostility Toward Foreign Policy Community, Explained," Washington Post

Munich

Thomas Wright, "The Moment the Transatlantic Charade Ended," Atlantic
Daniel Estrin, "Munich Security Conference Reveals A Growing Rift Between U.S. and Its Allies," NPR

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren D. M. Shulman. And I'm Radda Iengar. And hello ladies. We have for a change, something that we're drinking. Lauren, what are we drinking?
0:21.4	We are drinking something very bubbly. It is a Perrier, Jewet, champagne brutes, grand brute. Very grand
0:28.5	brute. Very grand brute. I'm told that this maybe is from our friend Ulrika Franca. Oh my gosh. I'm so
0:34.9	excited to drink it. You liked it like literally a year and a half ago.
0:38.3	Yeah, like Ryan held it hostage at the War on the Rock's office.
0:40.8	So we definitely need like better protocols for people plying us with alcohol to make sure that it actually gets to us, that we actually drink it.
0:48.8	And, you know, Rada, maybe there'll still be some left over when you get into town later this week and we can share.
0:53.9	Yeah.
0:55.0	I'm not holding my breath on this.
0:56.6	Rika, thank you for the champagne.
0:58.0	And also congratulations on the award that you received at Munich Security Conference.
1:03.0	So, cheers.
1:04.1	Excellent.
1:04.8	Roda, what are you drinking?
1:06.2	I am drinking some not very exciting homemade coffee,
1:10.8	but in a very exciting mug that says,
1:13.0	badass boss lady, so I'm ready for the day.
1:16.8	Was that custom made for you?
1:18.7	It was given to me by my team
1:20.4	after a long and arduous research project on revenge porn.
1:25.5	So there you go.
1:26.2	Like you do. You got that from your current job.
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