Anne Applebaum & Frank Foer on Syria, The Middle East, and Ukraine
The Al Franken Podcast
ASF Productions
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
We're joined by two of our favorite foreign policy writers to examine what the end of Bashar al-Assad’s region means to Syria and the regime. Frank Foer and Anne Applebaum from The Atlantic also look toward the incoming Trump administration and what lies ahead. Can Trump be a steady hand to stop escalating war around the world? How will Israel react? And what happens to our support of Ukraine in their efforts against the tyrant Putin?
Read Anne's book Autocracy, Inc: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302/autocracy-inc-by-anne-applebaum/
Read Frank's work in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/author/franklin-foer/
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| 0:40.4 | Hey everybody, we got a great one today. |
| 0:46.8 | You know, for a change, I'm here in Damascus, Syria, where folks are celebrating, they're still celebrating the exit of their dictator Bashar al-Assad. |
| 0:51.3 | Turns out he fled to Moscow, Russia, where he'll be living for probably quite a while. |
| 0:56.4 | Anyway, we'll be talking to my guest, Anne Appelbaum and Frank Ford of the Atlantic, |
| 1:03.8 | and he'll be doing a survey of the trouble spots in the world from here in Syria to Gaza and Israel, |
| 1:12.2 | to Ukraine and Russia. |
| 1:14.0 | We got a great one today. |
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