News - DRC-Rwanda Peace Deal, PKK Disarmament, US Airstrikes in Somalia

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads and get more content. Order our limited edition ⁠"Robo Washington Crossing the Delaware" ⁠poster now. Paid subscribers get a 50% discount! Our news roundups are sometimes big, but never beautiful. This week: the PKK to begin its disarmament in Turkey (1:17); Iran suspends its cooperation with the IAEA (4:30), but remains open to negotiations with the US (6:53); the debate continues on how far the war set back Iran’s nuclear program (9:18); in Gaza, a new ceasefire push (12:24) while journalists investigate the massacres at “humanitarian aid” sites (16:15); Russia recognizes the Talbian-led government in Afghanistan (20:20); the Constitutional Court of Thailand suspends PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra (21:57); Malaysia bans US plastic waste (23:55); Trump ramps up US airstrikes in Somalia (26:07); the DRC and Rwanda sign a peace deal (28:48); Russia makes advances in Ukraine (33:31) plus the US freezes military aid (35:46); the UN says the security situation in Haiti is worsening (37:51); and the US and China make another trade deal (39:29). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to American Prestige.
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0:42.3	That's kind of conversation to your soul.
0:47.3	That's conversation to your soul and the now. Hello, Prestige Head, and welcome to know.
1:05.2	Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome to American Prestige.
1:11.4	I'm Danny Bessner, here, as always, with my friend and comrade, Derekison, and we are excited to bring you the news.
1:16.5	But before we do, I want to remind everyone to please check out that series that we did on the Crusades at Welcome to thecrucades.com. Again, that's welcome to thecrisades.com. We really think
1:22.6	you'll enjoy it if you like history, if you like the Middle Ages, if you like learning about
1:26.7	some crazy shit that happened in the past. And beyond that, we've got a very cool special announcement,
1:33.1	something that we've been working on for a while, I think, Derek Jesus Christ, since December.
1:37.4	But we really think that you'll like it. It's a really cool thing. And Jake said that I needed to
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