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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Did DeSantis Just Go Isolationist?

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.65.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Today’s podcast features our old friend Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, who joins us to discuss Ron DeSantis’s characterization of the war in Ukraine as a “territorial dispute” in which we should not become entangled. And then we talk about the stunning news that China has brokered a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia and what this says about American foreign... Source Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Oh, for the best!

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Extend the worst!

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Some preach a pain, some die of thirst!

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The way of knowing which way it's going!

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Oh, for the best!

0:20.0

Extend the worst!

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Oh, for the best!

0:24.0

Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast today is Tuesday March 14th, 2023.

0:29.0

I am John Puthhorz, the editor of Commentary Magazine.

0:33.0

Commending to your attention sometime today, Tuesday, we will have up on our website our April issue with a dazzling article by the Russian Literature Professor and General Sage Gary Saul Morrison on the Russian View of War and how it explains Russia's conduct in Ukraine.

0:58.0

It is one of the most illuminating articles you will ever read and that will be up later today at commentary.org along with all of the rest of our April issue, including a piece by me on Israel's election mess.

1:16.0

Christine and Matt have pieces as well and there's a lot of other stuff we'll be talking about.

1:22.0

And by mentioning Christine and Matt I have to now introduce our today's panel.

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We have of course with me as always executive editor, A Greenwald Hyab, Washington Commentary columnist, and American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Matthew Kahnetti.

1:37.0

Hi Matt!

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Hi John!

1:39.0

And the media commentary columnist and American Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Christine Rosenhyk Christine.

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Hi John!

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And joining us today from the foundation for the defense of democracies, our old friend Jonathan Schanzer, long time expert on the Middle East on the relations between Israel and Arab countries and America's role in the Middle East, Jonathan Schanzer, welcome to the podcast.

2:06.0

Thanks John!

2:07.0

Thank you for joining us today.

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I'm happy to be with you.

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