Israel, Ukraine And The Messes That Await The Next President
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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This episode: political correspondent Susan Davis, national security correspondent Greg Myre and Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman.
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| 0:27.0 | Right now I'm on my way to Rickstock where the King of Sweden will officially open the Rixtock session of 2024-25. |
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| 0:44.3 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:45.9 | I feel like the Swedish Parliament probably gets along a lot better than our Congress. I don't know why. |
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| 0:57.7 | Oh and welcome then. Hey there it's the NPR Politics Podcast, I'm Susan Davis. |
| 1:01.8 | I cover politics. I'm Tom Bowman, I cover the Pentagon. And I'm Susan Davis I cover politics I'm Tom Bowman to cover the Pentagon and I'm |
| 1:04.8 | Greg Myri I'm a national security correspondent and today the latest on the |
| 1:08.8 | conflicts in Israel and Ukraine and the challenges awaiting the next president, whether it be Donald Trump or |
| 1:14.5 | Kamla Harris. Greg, the most immediate challenge for the next president is |
| 1:18.7 | confronting the reality that the US on one hand is both deeply involved in these two |
| 1:24.4 | conflicts but on the other hand has pretty limited control of what is |
| 1:28.6 | actually happening on the ground in either Israel or Ukraine. That's right, Susan. |
| 1:33.0 | The Biden administration is supporting Israel and Ukraine with billions of dollars of advanced U.S. |
| 1:39.0 | weapons, and politically the administration supports Israel's effort against Hamas and Ukraine's battle against Russia. |
| 1:46.1 | But the US doesn't have troops on the ground taking part in the fight in either of these places. It doesn't have direct control over decisions |
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