News - Tensions Rise with Iran, Sudan-Libya Border Clashes, Trump Creating Office of Remigration

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and more content. "Top Secret" subscribers get a complimentary one-year digital subscription to The Nation! Danny and Derek are everyday people who still believe in you. This week: the AUKUS security partnership is under review at the Pentagon (1:47); the IAEA rebukes Iran, nuclear negotiations are going nowhere, and Trump is evacuating nonessential personnel from the Middle East (5:14); in Israel-Palestine, Israeli soldiers continue to gun down people at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation sites as Hamas kills several GHF workers (10:24), the IDF appears to be shielding at least one ISIS-linked gang in the Strip (13:21), the IDF intercepts the “Freedom Flotilla” (15:39), and US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee declares the “two-state solution” dead (17:43); the UK and several states sanction far-right Israeli politicians Ben-Gvir and Smotrich (19:00); South Korea ceases propaganda broadcasts across the DMZ with North Korea (21:06); Sudan’s military loses border outposts after an alleged attack by Libyan forces (22:55); the Russian military advances into another Ukrainian province (25:15); the Polish government survives a no-confidence vote (26:40); member states of NATO strive to hit Trump’s 5% defense spending demand (27:28); the Trump administration is creating an “Office of Remigration” at the State Department (29:08); and in a New Cold War update, the US and China appear to have reached a trade deal (31:30). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello,
0:03.0	Hello, Prestige Head's
0:05.0	Hello, Prestige heads, and welcome to American Prestige.
0:23.6	I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davidson,
0:27.6	and we are excited to bring you the news, but before we do some brief housekeeping,
0:32.6	in the biggest news, perhaps the biggest news of the year, the decade, the century.
0:44.4	Next week, we will be debuting our first series done in collaboration with the wonderful people over at the We're Not So Different podcast on the First Crusades.
0:49.2	The series is called Welcome to the Crusades, The First Crusades.
0:54.0	And if you guys like it, we looked forward to doing more of these.
0:58.4	There are several more Crusades, and we could also do some other geopolitical analysis of earlier events.
1:04.3	And we think the series is fun, and it's interesting.
1:06.9	And we're going to drop probably a couple of episodes for you all to check it out.
1:10.3	It's Eleanor Yaniga. You guys know her.
1:12.3	Yeah, it's Eleanor. You all know Eleanor and Luke and Luke Wallers.
1:17.3	So two great people who really know their stuff, and we really do think you'll enjoy it.
1:22.6	We'll drop a couple of episodes, and then you could purchase the rest of the series.
1:26.7	Of course, our lovely subscribers will get a discount. And beyond that, if you haven't yet subscribed to the podcast,
1:33.5	please do consider subscribing. And if you can't subscribe, we really do appreciate everyone
1:37.7	who's been rating and reviewing the show on Apple. If you haven't done that yet, please do so.
1:42.5	We're pretty close to a thousand. And once we
1:44.4	get to a thousand, I'll be able to rest easy at night. So with that all said, Derek, why don't
1:49.9	we get into it? And with terrible news of the week, this is just, you know, I haven't been able to
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