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Hello and welcome to the podcast.

This is the DSR Mothership, the main podcast of our week out of the many many

podcasts we do. I'm David Rothkoff, your host as I have been for, oh I don't know about

a decade, and we're going to do something special today, kind of different from what we've done over the course of that decade,

because since our goal is to provide perspectives on important stories around the world that have to do with foreign policy and national security, we try

to cast our net a little bit wider than just the usual suspects who are foreign policy experts

or politicians or military experts and really would like to do more to give a sense of the situation on the ground in the countries that we are paying attention to.

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