News - Thai-Cambodian Border Clash, Gaza Starvation, ICJ Climate Ruling

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads. Don’t forget to buy our “Welcome to the Crusades” miniseries! Danny and Derek also rail against the war pigs, but lack the heavy riffs. This week: the International Court of Justice rules that wealthy nations must take action on climate change or bear responsibility (1:20); clashes escalate on the Thai-Cambodian border (4:08); a ceasefire holds in Syria’s Suwayda province after clashes between Druze and Bedouin groups (9:06); in Israel-Palestine, Gaza’s starvation reaches catastrophic levels (13:19) as ceasefire talks barely limp along (16:23); Iran is reengaging with the International Atomic Energy Agency (20:49); the Democratic Republic of the Congo and M23 militant group sign a declaration of intent (23:05); in Ukraine, a new round of peace talks achieves little (25:24) while Zelensky responds to protests over corruption (28:27); Venezuela, the US, and El Salvador carry out a prisoner exchange amid accusations of torture (31:38); the Japan House of Councillors holds an election while PM Ishiba looks likely to resign (33:32); and Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia make trade deals (36:10). 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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0:11.2	I've ruled out uni because I want to live at home.
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0:46.3	That's conversation to your soul. Hello, Prestige Heads and welcome to I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davison, and we
1:09.0	are excited to bring you the news. But before we do, I wanted to remind everyone about our series on the Crusades. Welcome to the Crusades, which you can find at welcome to thecrucades.com. If you're into history, if you're into weird, strange medieval stuff, if you're into culture, if you're into war, we really do think you'd like the show. So please check it out. Tell all of your friends.
1:29.3	Again, that's Welcome to thecrisades.com. And as always, if you can, please subscribe to the show.
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1:58.1	And if you can't do that, please review us on Apple.
2:01.9	All right, Derek, let's get into it, and let's start with this International Court of Justice ruling on the climate.
2:07.9	What's happened there?
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