Biden ends one war, will Israel and Iran start another?
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Pod Save the World
4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Tommy and Ben discuss the cyberattack on an Iranian nuclear facility, Biden's plans to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11th, whether MBS spent almost half a billion on a forged painting, violence in Northern Ireland, escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine, sports nationalism and more. Then Ben talks to journalist Afua Hirsch about how Boris Johnson's government has embraced racism and the complicated legacy of Prince Philip.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Potsay the world on Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:14.4 | Ben, I was going to start this by trying to award you the second ever champion of Freedom |
| 0:19.9 | Award, which was given from Senator Rick Scott Donald Trump this weekend. |
| 0:24.4 | But I forgot my tiny little silver trophy. |
| 0:26.6 | I left it at home. |
| 0:27.6 | I apologize. |
| 0:28.6 | Yeah, it's like the participation trophy is I used to get in like little league, you |
| 0:33.6 | know? |
| 0:34.6 | I think Dan Fyfer called it a fascism participation trophy in Twitter. |
| 0:38.9 | Yeah, that's very, very, very funny. |
| 0:43.0 | We have a lot going on today is actually the hardest time I've had in well over a year |
| 0:47.2 | in terms of like with you guys trying to think through like what makes it on to the show |
| 0:50.9 | and what doesn't because there's so much going on. |
| 0:53.0 | So where we all landed on the Potsay of the World Brain Trust was we're going to talk about |
| 0:57.7 | cyber attacks on Iran and what it means for the nuclear negotiations. |
| 1:01.7 | Some big news from Biden on Afghanistan. |
| 1:04.4 | Why progressives are pushing the Biden team to do more in Yemen, some scary tensions in |
| 1:08.8 | Northern Ireland that's spilling out into media. |
| 1:11.1 | We're going to talk about Tom Brady because I felt like fake art escalating tensions with |
| 1:15.8 | Russia and China, Facebook, Mike Pompeo, the situation in Uganda and why Japan is very |
| 1:21.3 | excited about golf at the moment. |
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