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Bombshell

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News, Politics, Military, War, History

4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, Loren, Radha, and Erin explore the world's many recent elections - in Israel, India, Indonesia, and Ukraine. They then return to Northern Ireland, not to talk about Brexit, but to unpack resurgent sectarian violence. The recent coup in Sudan rounds out a very sporty Keeping up Foreign Relations. Radha notes we're still waiting on a big trade summit with China before we dive headfirst into the Mueller report and speculate wildly on the ongoing counter-intelligence investigation(s). DoD remains opaque as ever, while DHS gets purged. Finally, a lively Pop Culture round-up to take our minds off all this mayhem.

Links

Trade

Enda Curran "How the US-China Trade War Reached A Turning Point," Washington Post, April 18, 2019
Jeff Cox, "US Trade Deficit Falls in February As Shortfall with China Decreases 28%," CNBC, April 17, 2019

DHS:

Ronald Brownstein, "Trump's Immigration Policies Unify White Republicans," Atlantic, April 11, 2019

Sudan

Nandita Balakrishnan, "Sudan's Upheaval is the Latest Examples of a Gray Zone Coup," Washington Post, April 17, 2019
Mai Hassan and Ahmed Kodouda, "Sudan Ousted Two Autocrats in Three Days. Here's What's Next," Washington Post, April 15, 2019

Protests

"Protests in Sudan Are Escalating. Here's What You Need to Know," Washington Post, April 10, 2019
"Generals Overthrew Sudan's President Bashir, But They Can't Agree On What Comes Next," Washington Post, April 16, 2019

Election

"FP's Guide to the Indian Elections," Foreign Policy, April 18, 2019
Arys Aditya, "After Record One-Day Indonesia Election, Result Still Weeks Away," Bloomberg, April 20, 2019
Ilan Goldenberg, "The Future of the Two-State Solution is at Stake," April 08, 2019

Northern Ireland

"Lyra McKee Murder: Journalist Shot Dead During Derry Rioting," BBC, April 19, 2019
"Petrol Bombs Thrown at Police in Derry As Journalist Kill," Guardian, April 19, 2019
Ed O'Loughlin and Richard Perez-Pena, "Lyra McKee, Northern Ireland Journalist, Is Killed in 'Terrorist Incident,' Police Say," New York Times, April 19, 2019
Bonnie Weir, "Brexit and a Border Town: Troubles Ahead in Northern Ireland?" New York Review of Books, April 11, 2019

Mueller

Benjamin Wittes, "Notes on the Mueller Report: A Reading Diary," Lawfare, April 19, 2019
Joshua Geltzer and Ryan Goodman "Mueller Hints at a National-Security Nightmare," New York Times, April 19, 2019

Pop Culture

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Teaser
Spencer Kornhaber, "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Might Spark and Old Fight," April 12, 2019
Andrew Dyce, "Star Wars Already Made Rey a True Skywalker (You Just Missed It)," Screen Rant, April 20, 2019

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren D. Young-Schelman. And I'm Roda Aingar.
0:15.4	And I am back in D.C. for a couple of days. Hi, Lauren. I'm so happy you're here.
0:20.7	Thank you for providing me the
0:21.7	motivation to clean my apartment, which I left in an unfortunate state that my mother would be
0:25.6	very disappointed in. As we discussed, my living room and dining room are currently turned into a
0:30.8	car wash for mini cars. So, you know, there's options that we could have had, but like, we would
0:36.3	have been in the middle of a car wash.
0:41.9	You've also conveniently fed me and provided wine. What are we drinking?
0:47.8	We have, I chose this purely because of the name, some sea glass rosé from Monterey County,
0:55.1	which is where my in-laws live. Hello, in-laws. I don't think you're listening, but just in case. Rada, what are you drinking slash eating?
0:58.0	I was eating Pop-Tarts.
1:02.1	I tried to save it for the episode, but guys, cinnamon,
1:03.9	frosted Pop-Tarts are delicious.
1:07.9	They still are. I mean, this is going to become like the official food of Bombshell,
1:10.4	which is Frosted Pop-Tarts and Rose.
1:10.8	Right. As in, as I told Rada, a moment ago, which is frosted pop tarts and rosé. Right.
1:11.1	As I told Rada, a moment ago, there are frosted brown sugar, cinnamon, and pop tarts cereal.
1:17.5	So a combination of all of your great loves.
1:20.3	Just sounds amazing.
1:21.4	And I can't believe I didn't know it before right now.
1:23.3	Yeah, I think you're going to have to send John out to get you some here immediately.
1:27.1	We do not have a guest on today, but we do have an extended pop culture discussion at the end.
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