Rational Security 2.0: The “BOYZ NITE” Edition

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🗓️ 28 August 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This week on Rational Security, a Quinta-less Alan and Scott were joined by host emeritus Benjamin Wittes to talk through the week's big national security stories, including:

“Sometimes the Best Defense is a New Offensive.” With apparent U.S. support, Ukraine is bringing the fight to Crimea and other Russian-held areas—and perhaps to the streets of Moscow itself, where a well-known Russian nationalist’s car and daughter were detonated this past week. What are the risks of this new strategy? And how far will (or should) the United States go in its support?
“The Enemy of my Frenemy is my…Enemenemy?” Former President Donald Trump’s endorsement appeared to hold significant (if not absolute) sway in several recent Republican primaries, where a number of election-denying candidates won—several with help from the DCCC, who supported them against more moderate opponents in hopes of having weaker competition in the general election. How might this strategy impact democratic norms and the rule of law?
“Special Masters and the Don/Sub(tweet) Relationship.” As more problematic facts regarding former President Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate come forward, his lawyers have put forward a novel argument seeking a special master to oversee what happens to the records recovered—one that hinges on Trump’s ability to assert executive privilege against the Executive Branch. What should we make of this argument and what does this case seem to mean for Trump's legacy moving forward?

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1:22.5	I'm Benjamin Pollard with an episode of Rational Security for August 28, 2022.
1:28.2	For today's episode, the team at LawFair decided to cross post this week's episode of Rational
1:32.8	Security, podcast hosted by Scott R. Anderson, Quentin Gerrassick and Alan Rosenstein in
1:38.2	which they cover the week's big national security news stories.
1:41.5	Today's Rational Security episode is entitled The Boys Night Edition.
1:45.5	In the episode, Alan and Scott sat down with Benjamin Wittis to discuss Ukraine's new
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