So we need a social media wrap-up for the work bake-off. Any takers?

I can design posts on Canva. I can also design posts on Canva. Uh-huh. Well, I can design posts with a jam-tart theme on Canver. That's great. I can design posts with a jam-tart theme and generate a moving image of a jam roly-poly rolling on Canva. Well, I can design posts and create a 3D headline that says bake your tarts out on Canva. I can design posts and create a 3D headline

and turn your face into a Bakewell tartle, Kanbah.

All right, calm down.

With a huge range of easy-to-use design AI tools, anyone can with Canva. I can slice a video of a crock and boosh. Hey, Mike Baker here. Now, every dictator eventually faces the same problem. How you maintain your grip on power. Well, in this week's subscriber-exclusive

episode of the PDB dictator files, we explore the secret police organizations that have protected

authoritarian regimes for centuries. And we'll also look at why convincing people that they're

being watched is often more powerful than actually

watching them. You can listen by going to PDB Premium.com. We'll have more on that later. Now,

on to the PDB. It's Wednesday, the 22nd of July.

Welcome to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

And yes, in my continuing game of where's Waldo, I am still on the road.

All right, let's get briefed.

First up, after 11 consecutive nights of U.S. airstrikes, American intelligence agencies

are warning that air power alone may not be enough to force Iran to change course.

And for that, we award America's intelligence agencies, today's PDB statement of the

obvious award. I'll have the details. Later in the show, protests continue in Ukraine, following the

dismissal of Defense Minister Mikhailov as new details reveal a deepening rift over just how the war

against Russia should be fought. Somewhere, off in the distance,

Vladimir Putin sits chuckling and stroking his hairless cat. Plus, after two years of war,

Washington and its allies are quietly considering bold new plans to disarm Khazpola. But as you

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