Lawfare Daily: Bioweapons, North Koreans, and Musk, Oh My!
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
An old Soviet bioweapons lab shows new sign of life—and growth. Thousands of North Korean soldiers are in Russia to fight against Ukraine. And Russian President Vladimir Putin seems to have Elon Musk's direct line. What's going on in Russia?
Lawfare's Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman and Tim Mak of The Counteroffensive to talk through the news of the weird from Russia.
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| 1:05.9 | The possibility that Russia is going to be backing North Korea, that Russia and China might be backing Iran |
| 1:11.6 | in different contingencies, that their militaries will get better, that they'll have |
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