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Bombshell

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4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week Erin, Loren, and Radha are joined by War on the Rock's new editor-in-chief Becky Zimmerman to talk about the talks that never were with the Taliban and catch up on the situation in Afghanistan more generally. The ladies then turn to the chaos in the UK, ongoing protests in Hong Kong, the release of classified information by the President (again!), MILCON spending for the border wall, and the Mattis book. Whew! After all that, the dive into pop culture with book and podcast rec's for all.

Links

Afghanistan

Erin Banco and Asawin Suebsaeng, "Trump and His Team Send Clashing Messages on US Troops in Afghanistan," Daily Beast, August 30, 2019
Mujib Mashal, "US Deal with Taliban Meets Afghan Resistance as Violence Intensifies," New York Times, September 5, 2019
Jennifer Jacobs, Nick Wadhams, and Eltaf Najafizada, "Trump Says He Canceled Secret Camp David Talks with the Taliban," Bloomberg, September 7, 2019
Mujib Mashal, "Taliban Talks Hit a Wall Over Deeper Disagreements, Officials Say," New Yorkt Times, September 8, 2019
"President Ghani's Visit to Washington Postponed: Sources," TOLO News, September 6, 2019

Brexit

"How Bad is Boris Johnson? We Can't Even Find the Words," Globe and Mail, September 5, 2019
Amanda Sloat, "Brexit Endgame: Boris Jonson Loses Control," Lawfare, September 6, 2019
"Brexit Extension: PM to 'Test Law to Limit' to Avoid Delay," BBC News, September 8, 2019

Yemen

"The Latest on the Situation in Yemen," NPR, September 4, 2019

Hong Kong

Mike Ives, Tiffany May, and Elaine Yu, "Hong Kong Protesters Return to Streets After Leader Announces Concessions," New York Times, September 7, 2019

Saudi/UAE

Aziz El Yaakoubi, David Evans, Ros Russell, and Tuqa Khalid, "Saudi Arabia, UAE Urge Yemen Government and Separatists to Halt Fighting," Reuters, September 8, 2019

Iran

Eric Adams, "Everything We Know About America's Secret KH-11 Recon Satellites," Popular Mechanics, September 6, 2019

MILCON

Chantal Da Silva, "Here's Every Military Construction Project in the US Being Pushed Back to Fund Trump's Border Wall," Newsweek, September 5, 2019

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bombsville. I'm Erin Simpson. I'm Lauren DeYoung-Sholman, and I'm Radda Iingar.
0:14.7	And we're all back in our respective locations, at least temporary or not. I have to ask, given what's gone on in the last 24
0:25.6	hours, ladies, what are we drinking? I'm drinking a really large glass of red blend that I put some
0:31.9	ice cubes in because I am a very basic late 30s mom. I don't live in the suburbs, but I might as well. I had this
0:40.2	vision of Angli when the adorable blonde character, Angli drinks like wine out of a sippy cup. That's my day
0:48.6	right now. Super. Rada, anything good for you? I'm on approximately my 803rd cup of coffee because I traveled across the country with two small children who now wake up at 4 o'clock saying, Mommy, wake up.
1:06.6	That's cool.
1:07.7	Yep.
1:08.1	Aaron.
1:08.5	Right.
1:09.4	I actually, I had aspirations of buying some sort of like rosé in a can or whatever that
1:15.3	white claw situation is at Whole Foods.
1:18.0	And I decided that I just couldn't.
1:20.1	So I'm drinking LeCroix, which I consider to be less basic than drinking White Claw.
1:24.8	And I don't know if that's true, but that's where we are today.
1:27.8	So, well, the question is, could you really get Wegman's brand LaCroix? Because I'm Jonzing for that. And now I've
1:33.2	traveled far from Wegman's land. So it is Sunday. We have a wonderful guest with us here today. Becky
1:43.2	Zimmerman. Hi, Becky.
1:44.9	Hi.
1:45.9	We're going to get into lots of things here in just a moment.
1:49.6	But we invited Becky on several days ago to talk about Afghanistan.
1:53.0	And boy, are we glad that we did, because this has broken wide open in the last 24 hours.
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