It’s Aghast

Bombshell

News, Politics, Military, War, History

4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

While the ladies of Bombshell will talk with just about anyone, should the U.S. government? Bombshell dives into President Trump's proclivity for theatrical political summits with adversaries, following up on current efforts in Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iran. Radha introduces a new segment on trade: It's Aghast! And the National Defense Authorization Act is a 2500 page gold mine of wonky policy fun.

Keeping up Foreign Relations

North Korea

"North Korea continuing nuclear programme - UN report," BBC News
Ellen Nakashima and Joby Warrick, "U.S. spy agencies: North Korea is working on new missiles," Washington Post
Uri Friedman, "Two Ways to Read the Newest Intelligence on North Korea," Atlantic

Pakistan Elections

Colin Cookman, "A Tilted Playing Field: What Pakistan's Electoral Shifts Could Mean for Imran Khan's Government," War on the Rocks
Alyssa Ayres, "Election 2018: So Far, No Cause for Celebration," Council on Foreign Relations

Afghanistan Strategy

Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Helene Cooper, "Newest U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan Mirrors Past Plans for Retreat," New York Times
Spencer Ackerman, "Inside the Secret Taliban Talks to End America's Longest War," Daily Beast
Idrees Ali, "Exclusive: After discouraging year, U.S. officials expect review of Afghan Strategy," Reuters

It's Aghast

Jack Ewing, "Europe Feels the Squeeze of the Trump Trade Tariffs," New York Times
Shawn Donnan, "Trump's hopes for EU trade deal hampered by agriculture," Financial Times
Doug Palmer, "US sides with Russia in WTO national security case against Ukraine," Politico

White House Mayhem

NDAA

Mark Cancian, "What Really Matters In The Defense Authorization Act & What Didn't Get Done," Breaking Defense
Aaron Mehta and Joe Gould, "Senate moves to empower Pentagon's policy chief as enforcer," Defense News
Office of Management and Budget, "Follow-on to Statement of Administration Policy," Executive Office of the President
Leo Shane III and Tara Copp, "Pentagon braces for massive change to officer promotions," Military Times
Tom Vanden Brook, "Generals and admirals caught in sex scandals could lose clearances under defense funding bill," USA Today

Space Force

Marcus Weisgerber, "Exclusive: Pentagon To Start Creating Space Force -- Even Before Congress Approves It," Defense One
Paul Scharre, "The US Military Should Not Be Doubling Down on Space," Defense One

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren DeYoung-Shullman.
0:13.0	And I'm Roda Ayn Gar. And we are back for a deep dive into a whole bunch of different topics.
0:19.7	So we don't have a guest this week.
0:21.2	You guys are just with the three of us.
0:23.7	So you're welcome.
0:25.2	But shall we speaking of, I heard that glorious noise there, Rada.
0:28.9	What are we drinking?
0:30.5	I am drinking a delightful sparkling rosé from a can,
0:35.7	which I impulse bought while checking at it, Whole Foods
0:38.3	yesterday.
0:38.7	Man, I've walked by that display so many times and so many Whole Foods.
0:43.4	It was a tough day yesterday.
0:45.5	Our kid was sick.
0:46.5	And so I decided this morning that I would have coffee with vanilla ice cream,
0:50.5	blueberry muffins from a box, and a can of sparkling rosé.
0:53.2	So I feel like I'm set for Sunday that's a
0:55.8	pretty perfect Sunday I mean I don't even want to think about the hour of the day at which you were
0:59.9	drinking sparkling rosé right now but I admire you greatly for that don't ask follow-up question I'm not
1:05.3	going to we're drinking lecroy grapefruit lecroy in case anybody wondered just how basic we were
1:10.6	that's pretty much
1:11.7	summed it up, I feel like, right there. Exactly. Yeah. I feel good about it. Okay, we have a lot to talk
1:16.0	about this week, which we say every week, I know, but we have, we've got some. We have greatest hits,
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