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News, News Commentary, Politics, Military, War, History

4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week the Bombshell crew preps for the eclipse from opposite corners of the world to ask why we haven't all perished in the Fire and the Fury (alternate title for our next romance novel). Along with North Korea we talk India-China donnybrooks, military 'options' in Venezuela, and are somehow not overwhelmed by all the mayhem emanating from the White House. We go once more with feeling in Afghanistan, ask what Bannon's departure will mean for foreign policy, and debate the Chiefs subtweets on Charlottesville. Loren heads off to Porto, Radha chases the totality, and Erin enjoys the second order effects of good cocktails.

Reading:

Robert Windrem and Corky Siemaszko, ”North Korea Crisis: How Events Have Unfolded Under Trump,” NBC
Robert Kelly, “Attacking North Korea Would Be a War of Choice,” National Interest
Robert A. Manning and James Przystup, “Stop the South China Sea Charade,” Foreign Policy
Nicola Smith, “India-China border brawl: Superpowers throw stones at each other as tensions heighten,” The Telegraph
Ben Westcott, “Indian video mocks Xi Jinping after Chinese state media posts 'racist' clip,” CNN
Declan Walsh, Raphael Minder, Eric Schmitt and Rukmini Callimachi, “Spain, a Leader in Foiling Attacks, Falls Victim to One Anyway,” New York Times
Dan Deluce, “Inside Trumps' Tortured Search for a Winning Afghanistan Strategy,” Foreign Policy
Andrew Exum, “Why the Military Chiefs are Condemning White Supremacy,” The Atlantic
Terrence McCoy, “The road to hate: For six young men, Charlottesville is only the beginning,” The Washington Post
Alan Sepinwall, “‘Halt And Catch Fire’ Takes Another Leap In Its Final Season Premiere,” Uproxx

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren DeYoung-Shelman. I'm Rhada Ayngar.
0:18.0	And as you might be able to hear, we are once again doing a distributed ops version of this podcast. Ladies, where are you all today? Well, I'm Brata Aangar. And as you might be able to hear, we are once again doing a distributed ops version of this podcast.
0:23.1	Ladies, where are you all today?
0:24.6	Well, I am still in Portugal.
0:26.9	Currently in...
0:27.6	Jesus, Laura.
0:28.3	I'm still in Portugal already.
0:30.3	Terrible.
0:31.9	It's terrible life here.
0:33.7	By the time this is released, I'll be headed up to Porto, near the Duro River Valley,
0:41.8	and I am currently drinking a lovely dry Duro white in honor of that trip.
0:47.4	Oh, well, that sounds delicious.
0:48.9	Roda, where are you and what are you drinking?
0:50.8	I am in lovely Norfolk, Virginia, which is sunny and bright, but this afternoon
0:57.2	we will start heading west to try to get to a place where we can see the solar eclipse.
1:03.4	Did you know there's an eclipse happening? No one has been around to tell me that there's an eclipse
1:06.7	happening. Yeah, I don't know. It's something that is, you know, in the news or something.
1:11.6	And I am drinking a giant jug of water because it turns out it's very hot here. It's going to be
1:16.1	hot for the rest of the day. And I am hydrating in preparation for our various adventures.
1:22.1	I am also drinking water because I drank my way through the great city of Philadelphia last
1:26.1	night. And I'm not really
1:27.9	a hair of the dog person. So we are in a bit of recovery mode as we work our way through some
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