It's Fun to Stay in the JCPOA

Bombshell

War on the Rocks

News, Politics, Military, War, History

4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Radha, Erin, and Loren host Nina Jancowicz, disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center and author of How to Lose the Information War, to talk about the ongoing protests in Belarus and what we should read into the alleged poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. In keeping up foreign relations, the ladies explore the latest U.S. attempt to use the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA or “Iran nuclear deal”) — an agreement the United States ghosted on — to reinstate sanctions on Iran, and in White House mayhem they assess how the recent Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the 2016 election. Plus, process is our Valentine, but process can be used for evil ends, as we learned about the 2018 process to pursue family separation as an official U.S. policy. Unsurprisingly, we need a lot of pop culture to handle all this news.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bomchell. I'm Erin Simpson.
0:11.6	I'm Lauren DeYoung-Tollin.
0:13.2	And I'm Radha Ayn Gar.
0:14.6	And we are all back in place today, all together again.
0:20.2	We even have a guest. It's like we know what we're doing
0:22.9	i mean you guys don't get the outtakes of when we try to record and it doesn't work like which
0:27.6	happens literally every episode guys every episode and i warm my heart because kaira's doll is
0:33.2	impressed by our sound insurance. Like three years ago.
0:37.6	I think he'd be really unimpressed.
0:38.9	We've literally not improved at all.
0:40.9	Is anybody drinking anything fun?
0:43.5	Oh, I wish.
0:44.5	I'm still recovering from a week with the weekend with the Friends of the Show in Philadelphia.
0:50.6	So I'm just enjoying some peach pear lecroy here, I think.
0:56.3	I am drinking a truly hard-seltzer strawberry lemonade flavor, so it's as basic as you can
1:02.6	imagine.
1:03.8	Yes.
1:04.3	In fact, I was telling Lauren that I can't believe that I'm the kind of person who used to
1:07.8	have these sorts of opinions, but I prefer White Claw to truly, even though truly has higher alcohol.
1:13.7	What is it about yourself that you can't believe that you have an opinion?
1:16.8	Of course you have an opinion, Rada.
1:18.3	It's just, no, just about this particular hard seltzer.
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