Our Afghan Interpreters Need More From Us

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🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Last week this podcast talked about Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko scrambling a military jet to force down a Ryanair flight carrying a dissident journalist. Now, as more reporting reveals how involved Russian President Vladimir Putin was, Steve asks whether President Biden should be holding a summit with Putin in a few weeks. Also in the foreign policy vein, Jonah laments the fact that translators who have been helping the U.S. military in the Middle East aren’t able to get the help they need to remain safe. Plus, check out the discussion on the merits of ranked-choice voting and Ezra Klein’s interview with President Barack Obama. Show Notes: -Putin summit announcement -Biden floats sending Iran money after 9/11 -Interpreters may be left behind -How does ranked-choice voting work? -TMD on New York City mayor’s race -Ezra Klien interviews Barack Obama -Obama’s ‘guns, religion’ line -Then She Asked Me About Benghazi - Ben Rhodes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dispatch podcast.
0:02.0	I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by David French, Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg.
0:08.2	Lots to discuss today.
0:09.2	We're going to start with the Biden Putin Summit, the move about Afghan interpreters coming
0:15.1	back to the United States.
0:17.8	Their ranked choice voting is the future and Ezra Klein's interview with President Obama.
0:38.3	Let's dive in, Steve.
0:40.4	Biden and Putin are set to have their first in-person meeting.
0:45.6	They are.
0:46.6	June 16th, the White House confirmed this last week.
0:52.1	Last week on this podcast, we talked about the brazen state hijacking of a Ryan air flight
0:58.5	conducted so that the authoritarian regime in Belarus could detain a prominent political
1:02.5	opponent as he flew over Belarusian airspace.
1:06.6	At the time we had that discussion, details of Russian involvement were hard to confirm,
1:11.8	but there were many signs that Vladimir Putin and his regime at least approved this
1:16.4	unprecedented move.
1:19.2	We've learned a lot in the week since.
1:22.1	Prominent Russian politicians have publicly backed Belarus, Russian state media has also
1:27.9	done so.
1:28.9	Putin met with Belarusian strongmen, Alexander Lukashenko in his boat for a photo op, a
1:34.6	show of solidarity, downplayed the flight diversion and kidnappings sort of made a mockery
1:40.3	saying, wow, this happened with Libyan leaders and nobody cared about it then.
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