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🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Erin, Radha, and Loren head back to school from summer break, with smiling and shining faces. This week they catch up on some extensive Kabul mayhem, covering recent Taliban forays into Afghan-government controlled cities, the state of possible negotiations among both parties, and how this fits into new changes on command at ISAF and CENTCOM. Revisiting a topic that's come up since the first episode of Bombshell, the ladies check in on U.S. support to the coalition campaign in Yemen and recent USG and Congressional frustrations with civilian casualties in the region - are we any closer to the end of our rope in enabling Saudi operations there or business as usual? And the enormous growth Chinese harassment of Uighurs in Xinjiang combined with the technological prowess of the Chinese surveillance state has a terrible alchemy that other autocratic states may find attractive. Radha continues her trade segment "It's Aghast" and talks through the current shenanigans with Mexico and Canada as well as a rapid rundown of our many trade tax tools! After some White House mayhem where it's clear that process is still our valentine we delight and quibble over the new Jack Ryan series. Keeping up Foreign Relations Afghanistan https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/08/analysis-gen-nicholson-says-us-strategy-in-afghanistan-is-working-despite-the-facts.php http://time.com/longform/ghazni-fight-taliban/ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-politics-security/rows-resignations-underscore-afghanistans-security-crisis-idUSKCN1LI0CN Yemen https://twitter.com/Brian_Castner/status/1031961797249646592 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45257631 https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/20/politics/yemeni-bombmaker-dead/index.html https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/yemen-saudi-airstrike-school-bus/567799/ China https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/31/asia/china-xinjiang-uyghur-intl/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/former-inmates-of-chinas-muslim-re-education-camps-tell-of-brainwashing-torture/2018/05/16/32b330e8-5850-11e8-8b92-45fdd7aaef3c_story.html?utm_term=.0b9c4d3c852f https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/08/china-surveillance-technology-muslims/567443/ https://www.npr.org/2018/08/31/643736351/u-n-urges-china-to-stop-detaining-uighurs-political-reeducation-centers-reported It's Aghast China tariffs https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2018/08/23/china-trade-war-update-preparing-for-trump-vs-xi/#6bdc310814a0 https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-china-tariff-second-list-of-goods-products-worth-16-billion-2018-8 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/08/24/china-trade/?utm_term=.256b6f1a0647 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-tariffs/trump-ready-to-ratchet-up-china-trade-war-with-more-tariffs-report-idUSKCN1LF2BP NAFTA https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nafta-canada-trump-trudeau-twitter-1.4807836 https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/naftas-economic-impact https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/i-was-all-set-to-terminate-inside-trumps-sudden-shift-on-nafta/2017/04/27/0452a3fa-2b65-11e7-b605-33413c691853_story.html?utm_term=.8873dabcb477 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trade-nafta-trump/trump-says-mexico-trade-deal-near-nafta-hurdles-seen-easing-idUSKCN1LA0H0 https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-mexico-close-to-resolving-issues-holding-up-nafta-talks-1535214739 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/09/01/trumps-playing-tough-with-canadians-he-needs-them/?utm_term=.724c9007d666 White House Mayhem https://www.vox.com/2018/8/28/17790546/north-korea-trump-pompeo-letter-trip https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mccains-funeral-was-a-melancholy-last-hurrah-for-whats-been-lost-in-trump-era/2018/09/01/156784c6-ad46-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html?utm_term=.2369d4ecda58 Pop Culture http://www.vulture.com/2018/08/jack-ryan-amazon-review.html

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombshell. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren DeYoung-Schelman. And I'm Rada Anggar. And we are back from a bit of summer break. I hope everyone is enjoying the punishing heat and oppressive humidity that is, at least the
0:22.1	east coast at the moment. I guess out west there are fires and assorted other fun things. So that's
0:27.6	better? You know, it's actually not better because we can breathe on the east coast. So barely. But it is
0:34.9	Labor Day weekend and we have lots and lots of things to discuss and also an
0:40.6	announcement Lauren do you want to tell us what's happening later this week so on thursday of this
0:45.5	week rata and i will be hosted by the army navy club in downtown dc to do a live show uh 530 p m army navy club i'll have a reception 6 p. a live show. 5.30 p.m. Army Navy Club, I'll have a reception, 6 p.m. live show with some very special guests.
1:00.1	If you are a member, please come and please bring guests who cannot otherwise get themselves into this very exclusive venue.
1:07.1	And we will be delighted to see any and all of you.
1:10.1	I have so much fO. I can't even
1:11.7	describe it. Aaron's going to be in like Utah. It's going to be an amazing trip to Utah.
1:17.0	Right. But it's definitely not going to be a live show at the Army Navy Club with you two
1:20.6	lovelies. So have all the fun. Yes, indeed. We're going to start with keeping up foreign relations.
1:26.3	We have just the three of us again this week, and we have quite a bit to plow through
1:31.4	as we kind of work through a couple of things that have been on some previous weeks to-do lists,
1:36.7	starting with Afghanistan, which has been, which has had quite a month.
1:41.1	It's actually been a very interesting few weeks in Afghanistan, and we're doing that in keeping up foreign relations and not White House mayhem, because it's actually the Afghan
1:48.0	side of this that's driving events at this point, not so much our policy discussions. I know. We can't
1:53.6	really have a Kabul mayhem. I mean, we could, but we need somebody else to really keep track of all of that.
2:02.1	So, you know, I think first what caught most people's attention in the last few weeks was a series of not just spectacular attacks, but although there was one in Kabul that was quite deadly, but also a number of Taliban offensives against key cities kind of across the country, many of which
2:19.2	were done simultaneously. And the one that caught most people's attention was the attack in Ghazni
2:23.3	City. There was a write-up in Time or Newsweek that sort of detailed, it was an almost an
2:29.8	accidental embed that detailed some of what the American Special Forces troops there were doing.
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