Iran and a hard place

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben talk through Trump's bizarre on again, off again war with Iran. They explain how the targeting process is supposed to work, try to divine the broader strategy, and do some self reflection about the terrible government euphemisms that mask the cost of war. Then a quick update on Saudi Arabia, Jared's rehashed Middle East Peace plan, Beto O'Rourke's "war tax", Bernie Sanders' foreign affairs article, some good news out of Turkey and then wtf is wrong with Boris Johnson? Then, First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon joins talks with Tommy about Scottish Independence

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0:00.0	Welcome to what shows this pot save the world I'm Tommy Beesore.
0:14.7	I am Ben Rose. Ben where the hell are you?
0:17.6	I am in Lisbon, Portugal.
0:19.9	Excellent.
0:20.5	At a European conference of progressives.
0:23.0	The only time I was there was with you. I think it was a NATO summit in like 2011 and it was not very fun.
0:29.6	It was a lot of work.
0:30.7	Yeah, we didn't really see Lisbon. It's part of the exact nature of those jobs that you get to travel to all these places you want to go to and you don't actually see them.
0:39.9	Yeah.
0:39.9	See the inside of convention centers.
0:41.6	You see a conference room at Angry Reporters.
0:43.6	All right, Ben.
0:44.2	Yes.
0:44.4	It has been a wild week.
0:45.9	We're going to talk about Trump and Iran.
0:47.2	We're going to talk about their continued coddling of Saudi Arabia.
0:50.8	Jared's Middle East peace plan and the conference is happening right now in Manama and Bahrain.
0:55.3	Some interesting new ideas and writing on foreign policy from some of the 2020 candidates, including Beno, Roorke and Bernie Sanders.
1:01.6	Some good news at a turkey and then we're going to try to figure out what the hell is going on with Boris Johnson.
1:07.2	Then we got a big time guest, the first minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon.
1:12.8	So, Pac-Show.
1:14.0	That big.
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