News - Iran War Threat, UN Report on Israel Ethnic Cleansing, U.S. Withdraws From Syria

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads. Join our Discord. Danny and Derek have been disqualified from the Games for incessant podium crashing. In this week’s news: tensions rise between the United States and Iran with reports of likely military strikes by the U.S. (1:32 ); Trump announces Gaza “Board of Peace” funding and troop details (11:39), Hamas refuses to disarm absent Palestinian statehood (15:31), and the UN Human Rights Office says that Israel is committing ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank (17:12); the Wall Street Journal reports the United States withdraws from Syria (21:00), Cambodia’s prime minister accuses Thailand’s military of occupying Cambodian territory (23:54); a UN investigation finds evidence of genocide in Sudan by the RSF (26:51); the U.S. deploys military personnel to Nigeria (28:38); another round of Ukraine peace talks makes little progress (31:01); British police arrest Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, former prince, on suspicion of misconduct in public office tied to Jeffrey Epstein (34:00); Peru’s congress removes President José Heri amid ongoing instability (36:20); Cuba’s fuel crisis worsens as the U.S. blockade restricts oil supplies (39:09); Marco Rubio and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deliver Munich Security Conference speeches (41:26); and the EPA rescinds the 2009 endangerment finding as the administration rolls back more U.S. climate regulation (44:51). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to American Prestige. To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at Americanprostagepod.com. Find the link in our show notes.
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0:36.3	Click or tap the banner to find out more Hello, Prestige Heads, and welcome. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davison,
1:09.7	and we are excited to bring you the news.
1:11.8	But before we do, just some quick reminders, please check out AmericanPersgegepod.com.
1:16.5	We have all of our series up there. You could actually search our episodes. And one thing that
1:20.4	I think is cool about this podcast is that many of our episodes remain relevant. You know,
1:26.0	history of Iran, history of Vietnam, history of other things. We actually never did a series on the history of Iran, history of Vietnam,
1:28.0	history of other things.
1:29.2	We actually never did a series on the history of Iran,
1:31.1	but we've talked about it many times.
1:32.8	So check that out.
1:35.0	The Queer Germany series, I know,
1:36.5	is something that people really enjoy as well.
1:39.1	And I also want to remind people to please
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