One last war for the road?
Pod Save the World
Pod Save the World
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🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Tommy and Ben talk about reports that Trump asked his national security team for options to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities and has accelerated the drawdown of troops from Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. They also discuss the spiraling civil war in Ethiopia, reports that al Qaeda’s number two in command was assassinated in Iran, why Peru had three Presidents in a week, China pulling together a big trade deal, another blow for pro-democracy advocates in Hong Kong, and Biden transition news. Then HuffPost’s Rowaida Abdelaziz joins to talk about reports that data from a Muslim prayer app was being sold to the US military and Islamophobia in the US and France post 9/11.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome back to Potsay for World on Tommy Vittor. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:14.5 | Ben, as far as I can tell, Joe Biden is still president. |
| 0:17.6 | The day-to-day coverage doesn't always reflect that, |
| 0:20.4 | but I think that's still the case. |
| 0:21.8 | Yeah, there's only, like, what, like, 62 days left in the Trump show. |
| 0:25.2 | So, I guess the coverage is getting the very last drops |
| 0:28.7 | of the Trump reality show before we all move on. |
| 0:31.9 | Yeah, you got to milk that. |
| 0:33.4 | Unfortunately, we are also doing the same thing today |
| 0:36.7 | because there's a lot of weird news out of the Trump White House |
| 0:39.3 | to cover when it comes to foreign policy. |
| 0:41.4 | Still the president. |
| 0:42.2 | He's still the president, unfortunately. |
| 0:43.7 | Yeah, he's still got a lot of power for a couple of days. |
| 0:46.0 | So, the first thing we're going to talk about is reports |
| 0:48.3 | that Trump is looking for options to bomb Iran. |
| 0:50.6 | Don't love that. |
| 0:51.7 | The other thing we'll get into is reports |
| 0:54.0 | that he is looking to accelerate the drawdown of troops |
| 0:56.5 | from various places across the globe. |
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