Israel Deadlocked, Suez Unblocked

Pod Save the World

Politics, News

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben walk through the inconclusive results of the latest Israeli election, how Covid and bad political leadership is devastating Brazil, the Suez Canal, news from Biden on Afghanistan, more military violence in Myanmar, plans for a Chinese-Russian moon base, pan-European progressivism, US-Bolivia policy, and whether Prince William is actually the sexiest bald man alive. Then, Ben talks to Ricardo Herrero, head of the Cuba Study Group, about how the Biden administration should reengage with Cuba.

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0:00.0	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:07.0	Ben, I just want to note for listeners on audio only that you have a new angle, a new
0:18.7	setup in your bookcase looks incredible.
0:21.0	How many of those have you read?
0:23.5	I'm going to lie and say I've read most of them.
0:28.2	I actually think I have.
0:29.2	These are like the books that like, you know, these are the paperbacks.
0:32.6	They travel with you.
0:34.6	Yeah, these ones are travel.
0:35.6	I do have Tommy I found going through boxes an excellent black tie photo of you and
0:40.9	me and Cody Keenan that is on a shelf behind me.
0:44.8	Oh nice.
0:45.8	Yeah.
0:46.8	Wow.
0:47.8	From a correspondence dinner after party.
0:50.0	Oh wow.
0:51.0	I actually think it's the one the night before Ben Laden got whacked too.
0:55.0	I.
0:56.0	That's why I kept that photo.
0:58.3	Is there a foreign policy angle?
0:59.4	Was that the French embassy?
1:01.2	That was at the French embassy.
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