Biden Launches Airstrikes Against Houthis in Yemen

Pod Save the World

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Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Tommy discuss US airstrikes on the Houthi rebels in Yemen and why they are unlikely to deter them, and provide background and context on the Houthi’s origins and motivations. They also cover the latest in Gaza and frustration with the administration’s refusal to change course after 100 days. Then they discuss the recent spike in gang violence in Ecuador, efforts to prevent Guatemala’s new President from being sworn in, Taiwan’s election results and North Korea announcing the end of efforts to reunify the Korean peninsula. Then Tommy speaks with Oona Hathaway, Director of the Center for Global Legal Challenges at Yale Law School, about South Africa’s charges of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pod Save the World, I'm Tommy Vittor. I'm Ben Rhodes. Were you up really late last night,
0:15.0	the real nail biter in Iowa?
0:17.2	Do they call the thing before people were voting?
0:21.2	You know, the funniest thing is that, like I I thankfully did not have to do a
0:24.6	podcast like you guys so I wasn't following it that closely and I got a news alert on my
0:29.7	phone that just
0:33.3	wins second place in Iowa and I thought it was like the dumbest alert I've gotten in a while
0:38.7	and that's saying something because the news media the political news media has nothing to talk about right and so they have to create
0:45.2	drama around something exactly well we know we have a lot to talk about because we talk
0:49.0	about the wars in the world right political side and and the the idea that this complete non-entity
0:56.5	of a presidential candidate who has no path won a contest for second place
1:02.0	20% to like 19%
1:04.9	merits like a news alert pushed out on everybody's phone
1:07.4	is a sign that because all these people had no takes
1:09.9	to write for weeks other than I was really
1:12.2	about second place and momentum momentum it was just so
1:14.8	sad to see that and the turnout was like a hundred ten a hundred thousand people
1:19.3	because it was so cold that people didn't want to leave their houses and freeze to death.
1:22.8	I mean, yeah, it was like the worst possible outcome for news purposes for the country for
1:28.0	Nicky Haley because Trump won immediately and was able to dance on all their graves and then it was like too close to call for
1:34.8	a while for Haley and DeSantis and she narrowly lost to him in those so she has an actual path
1:41.1	to do well in New Hampshire and then maybe make something happen in South Carolina
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