News - U.S. Moves Toward Venezuela Attack, Double-Tap Strike in Caribbean, DRC–Rwanda Peace Deal Collapses

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Subscribe now to skip the ads and get more content. Don’t forget to download our Chinese Prestige miniseries, currently on sale for $5. Annual subscribers get the series free! Despite sitting on a large surplus of Labubus, Danny and Derek work hard to bring you the news. This week: in Russia-Ukraine, new US diplomacy goes nowhere (1:08), Ukraine is now attacking Russian commercial ships (5:55), and the EU moves to phase out Russian natural gas (8:35); in the DRC-Rwanda conflict, Trump hosts a peace deal signing as fighting resumes with M23 in the eastern DRC (11:17); new fighting erupts in southern Yemen (14:19); Lebanon and Israel hold ceasefire talks as the IDF resumes strikes (17:08); in Gaza, new clashes leave a gang leader dead (19:45), the ceasefire implementation sees minimal progress (23:48), and Israel reopens the the Rafah checkpoint (26:24); Sudan’s RSF claims a new advance in the Kordofan region (28:40); a bizarre coup unfolds in Guinea-Bissau (30:40); Trump moves closer to military action against Venezuela (36:55); Honduras heads toward a contentious election (40:17); the US pauses entry from 19 countries after the DC National Guard shooting (43:46); and a double-tap strike on a boat in the Caribbean raises new legal questions (45:43). Join the Discord (subscribers get access to all channels).

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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.
0:22.6	To your soul. And then I'm a nice. next conversation and then my friend
0:24.6	and
0:26.6	we are excited to bring you the news
0:32.6	I'm Danny Bessner,
0:36.6	here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davidson, and we are excited to bring you the news. But before we do a few things, if you haven't yet, check out our series Chinese prestige. If you are an annual subscriber, you get access to it. Everyone else has to pay five bucks for now. I believe we're going to be raising the price soon.
0:55.0	So if you haven't purchased it yet, please do.
0:57.6	It is at Chineseprestigepod.com.
1:01.0	Again, that's Chinese prestige pod.com.
1:03.1	Again, want to plug our Discord.
1:05.0	A lot of good conversations there recently.
1:06.9	It's really interesting stuff about international politics, regular politics,
1:11.8	also just fun meme stuff is want to happen on the internet.
1:15.5	So if you haven't checked that our Discord, check that out as well.
1:19.7	All right, Derek, let's jump into the news.
1:21.9	Let's start with Russia, Ukraine, and let's start with new American diplomacy going nowhere.
1:27.3	Right. Well, the Trump administration introduced a 28-point
1:31.3	plan, peace plan, as I'm sure people heard, we may have talked about this
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