Can Ukraine Outlast Putin?
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben discuss the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the military defeat of Avdiivka, panic at the Munich Security Conference over Republicans blocking more aid to Ukraine, and how Ukrainians have adapted to living in a state of war. Then they talk about calls for accountability for Alexei Navalny’s death and his wife Yulia’s promise to continue Alexei’s work, the arrest of an American dual national in Russia, Tucker Carlson’s Moscow metro propaganda videos, and an update on Russia’s space nukes. They also look at Netanyahu’s insistence on invading Rafah, a pro-Israel group’s attack on a Washington Post reporter, the Indonesian elections, why Jared Kushner is still a sniveling little prick, and a very Australian mankini scandal. Then Tommy talks with Mstyslav Chernov about his incredible documentary, 20 Days in Mariupol.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to |
| 0:15.0 | to PODS, the world on Tommy Vittor. I'm Ben Rhodes. Ben is back from the Munich |
| 0:15.0 | Security Conference. He brought a piece of the blob with him. |
| 0:18.0 | Yeah, he's just sitting there kind of moving and shape-shipping. |
| 0:21.0 | I re-up to my credentials, you know. |
| 0:22.8 | How to go? |
| 0:23.6 | You know, it's an incredibly condensed environment and it's crazy to like walk into like the |
| 0:28.7 | this kind of old hotel in Munich and recognize like 90 people in the lobby immediately and like it's nice to not be in |
| 0:34.4 | government actually don't miss it at all but you see you'll remember this time |
| 0:37.6 | me like 20 people you know just like steamrolling by trailing like Kamla Harris. |
| 0:43.3 | Like, yeah, there's Derek Shalay, there's like, |
| 0:46.4 | Dan Krittenbrink, you know. |
| 0:47.9 | And everyone's harried and everyone's on their phone. |
| 0:49.5 | Every's like looking over every us to shoulder to see if there's someone more important |
| 0:52.9 | that they should be talking to. |
| 0:54.7 | You know, there's like people gawking at. |
| 0:57.4 | It's funny because it's like inverse celebrity culture. |
| 1:00.0 | You know, it's like, um... |
| 1:01.8 | Like who's the Latvian foreign minister. |
| 1:03.7 | Exactly, instead of like Duolipa, |
| 1:05.9 | it's like, oh my God, that's the ex-president of Estonia, |
| 1:10.2 | you know, like, uh, so it was good. good yeah I saw our buddy David Lymie nice yeah |
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