News - Syria Offensive, South Korea Martial Law, French Coalition Collapse

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Danny and Derek once again combine powers to find that they have none. This week: an update on the "ceasefire" in Lebanon (0:29); the situation in Syria progresses as rebels take Hama (4:38); in Israel-Palestine, Amnesty accuses Israel of genocide (12:34) as parties make another push for a ceasefire (14:27); South Korea's President Yoon (briefly) declares martial law (17:05); the Zamzam displacement camp is shelled in Sudan (19:59); Chad's government breaks a military agreement with France (21:46); in Ukraine, Zelenskyy broaches territorial concessions, but demands NATO membership in return (24:53); the Barnier government in France falls in a no confidence vote (27:49); NATO makes a new push to ramp up defense spending amidst concerns over sabotage (30:48); and President Biden makes his first (and last) trip to Africa (34:21). Be sure to check out our special on South Korea with Eun A Jo. 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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1:04.5	Here, as always, with my friend and comrade, Derek Davison, and we are excited to bring
1:08.9	you the news.
1:09.7	Derek, let's just get into it and let's
1:11.3	start with an update on the quote-unquote ceasefire in Lebanon. Yeah, it's probably good. You put that in
1:18.2	quotes because it hasn't been much of a ceasefire. The Israelis have bombed some part or multiple
1:24.4	parts of Lebanon pretty much every day since the ceasefire was agreed to
1:28.3	last week.
1:30.7	They are, I guess, justifying this by claiming self-defense.
1:38.4	They're claiming that Hezbollah has been violating the ceasefire.
1:41.4	It's not withdrawing its forces north of the Latani River as it's
1:46.4	supposed to. It's, you know, setting up rocket launch sites, according to the Israelis again.
1:54.0	And, you know, Hezbollah has on at least one occasion and maybe more than one, fired rockets into northern Israel over the
2:02.8	past week plus. But that's come after the Israelis have been bombing. I mean, I don't mean
2:08.9	to make light of this, but it's so absurd, the extent to which this has just been a continuation
2:13.8	of what was happening previously with the expectation that Hezbollah will just not do anything at this point, but the Israelis are allowed to keep bombarding Lebanon.
2:26.0	The fact is this is sort of written into the ceasefire agreement or baked into it with the addition of whatever letter, and as far as I know
2:37.7	we still haven't seen what the contents are, whatever letter the U.S. government gave to Israel,
2:44.0	assuring it that the U.S. would support Israel continuing to, quote-unquote, defend itself,
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