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I'm Andrew Day.

And I'm Connor Eccles.

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So, Connor, today we'll be covering some of the topics that we wrote about in The Earthling, which is the weekend edition of the Non Zero Newsletter.

And the topics we'll be talking about today are some Trump staffing updates, the situation

in Syria, the political crisis in South Korea, Elon Musk's changing views on climate change,

some updates on the U.S.-China Cold War, and a possible left-right MAGA coalition.

Then after this kind of rapid-fire news round, we'll have a more in-depth analytical discussion

about the political crises in Romania and Georgia and how the Biden White House has responded

to those crises. We're also going to have an interview with foreign policy analyst

James Cardin about what kind of foreign policy we can expect from a second Trump administration.

After that, you and I will do a little reflection on the interview. But, Connor, which news

item do you want to talk about first? Yeah, so I want to lead off this week with the situation in South Korea, which has developed

a lot since President Yun Suk Yul attempted to impose martial law and arrest his opposition

last week.

So basically, the government is in a complete state of paralysis as Yun kind of holds out and insists that he must be either

impeached or not leave office. He refuses to resign. But we got some new details this week about

exactly what he attempted to do, which was quite kind of lured in some ways.

He apparently had conspired with the defense minister who has since resigned and been

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