News - Gaza Aid Blocked Amid Winter Storm, Thailand–Cambodia Conflict Resumes, M23 Advances in DRC

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads and get all of our episodes. Listen to our Chinese Prestige miniseries! Danny and Derek will sadly not be doing a CBS News town hall event. This week in the news: the Thailand–Cambodia conflict resumes (1:47); the DRC–M23 conflict also resumes as M23 makes new advances (7:05); in Gaza, questions remain over the “second phase” of the ceasefire as a winter storm hits (10:38); separatists in Yemen gain control of the country’s south (17:18); the RSF takes Sudan’s largest oilfield (21:02); an attempted coup is foiled in Benin (23:31); Trump gives NATO a 2027 ultimatum on defense spending (26:05); Ukraine responds to the U.S. peace plan while Trump expresses frustration (29:46); controversy erupts in Honduras over election ballot-counting snafus (35:56); and in these great United States, Congress removes “right to repair” from the NDAA after contractors lobby against it (38:53). Don’t forget to join out our Discord.

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0:00.0	You're listening to American Prestige.
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0:13.0	That's kind of conversation to your soul.
0:18.7	That's conversation.
0:21.6	To your soul. And then I'm sorry, I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davidson.
0:42.8	And we are excited to bring you the news. But before we do, some quick reminders, if you haven't checked out our Chinese prestige series on the history of modern China, please check it out at Chinese prestige pod.com. We've also got
0:56.7	a bunch of good bonus content coming up. This Sunday, we have Rashid Khalidy back on the show,
1:02.3	and just a bunch, I think, in the next few weeks of really interesting interviewees, some people
1:07.2	you've heard before, some new people, but that really take a sort of step-back macro perspective
1:12.5	on what's been going on in the world,
1:14.4	what's been going on in the Trump administration more recently.
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