How Russia could lose the war
Pod Save the World
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben talk about reports about Russian intelligence and misinformation operations abroad, Biden on Taiwan, El Salvador and US policy towards Central America, the Queen’s funeral, Speaker Pelosi’s visit to Armenia, protests in Iran, how the EU might punish Hungary, the Saudi golf tour hires a lobbyist, and the scandal rocking the international chess world. Then Ben interviews Kyiv Independent defense reporter Illia Ponomarenko about why Russia is losing their grip and Ukraine's pathway to success.
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| 0:00.0 | The first vote by mail ballots are hitting people's mailboxes in the earliest in person early voting starts this week. |
| 0:05.0 | Do you know how you're voting? If your answer is it's September, I haven't thought about it. |
| 0:08.4 | I don't have a Halloween costume yet. |
| 0:10.2 | This is the week to get your shit together at least on the voting part. |
| 0:13.6 | Maybe the costume too. |
| 0:14.7 | Voter suppression efforts have ramped up following the 2020 election, |
| 0:17.6 | making even more critical to ensure that every American has access to the ballot box. |
| 0:21.3 | At Votes of America, you can find the most up-to-date information and what you need to make sure your vote is counted in all 50 states. |
| 0:27.2 | And you see use your ballot ready tool to request your ballot. |
| 0:30.4 | Find out how you can return it or get a reminder for when in person early voting locations become available in your state. |
| 0:35.8 | To win in November, it's going to take every single one of us making our plan to vote, |
| 0:39.0 | getting involved and reminding everyone we know to do the same. |
| 0:42.7 | Once you've made your plan to vote, visit votesafeamerica.com slash every last vote to find out what you can do next, |
| 0:48.5 | including donating to the every last vote fund to directly support the work of community organizations, |
| 0:53.2 | organizers, volunteers and states that are actively working to battle disenfranchisement in communities of color, |
| 0:58.4 | including Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan and more. |
| 1:14.4 | Welcome back to Potsayath World. |
| 1:15.4 | I'm Tommy Vittor. |
| 1:16.2 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 1:17.4 | Remember last week when I said we should not talk about the NFL season. |
| 1:21.3 | Talk about the jets, if you'd like. |
| 1:22.6 | I look at us, man, the story come back. |
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