Minor Annoyances and Major Backlashes

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Bloomberg columnist Eli Lake joins the podcast in John Podhoretz’s absence. Today, we discuss the shift from asymmetrical warfare in Ukraine to conventional battles, the perpetual state of Covid emergency, and the many minor irritations imposed on voters by progressive activist politicians that, cumulatively, will produce a major backlash.

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0:00.0	Oh, for the best, expect the worst.
0:10.9	Some preach your pain, some diaphris, the way of knowing which way is going.
0:18.9	Oh, for the best, expect the worst.
0:24.1	Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast for today, April 15th, 2022.
0:29.8	I'm Noah Rothman.
0:30.9	John is out today, but with us, as always, is executive editor, a green walled.
0:36.4	Hi, I know.
0:37.4	I was waiting for the high.
0:38.3	We're going to the high.
0:40.1	Senior writer, Christine Rosen, high Christine.
0:42.1	Hi, it's like Pavlovian.
0:43.5	We have to wait for the high.
0:44.6	And then we say, hi, Noah, hi, Christine.
0:46.8	And with us today in John's absence, the illustrious Eli Lake,
0:52.1	hi, Mr. Lake.
0:53.9	Shalom.
0:54.9	Shalom.
0:56.7	I wanted to talk.
0:57.3	We talked a little bit about this yesterday, but I wanted to open the podcast with some news
1:00.6	from the front over, I think early last night, we got official word from TAS news agency
1:08.7	that the muskva, the missile cruiser, that is the flagship of the Black Sea fleet, is
1:18.5	now at the bottom of the Black Sea.
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