Rational Security: The “Q Agone” Edition
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🗓️ 7 May 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rational Security, a Quinta-less Alan and Scott were joined by Lawfare legal fellow Saraphin Dhanani to talk through the week's big national security news, including:
- “Seoul Authority.” South Korea and the United States recommitted themselves to their close security relationship this past week, including through a state dinner and a new Washington Declaration that confirms that the United States will respond to any nuclear attack on South Korea with overwhelming force. What drove this public showing? And what impact will it have on the nuclear threat posed by North Korea?
- “The Uncanny X-Date.” The debate over raising the debt ceiling took on new urgency this week, when Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced that the United States might meet the ‘X-Date’ at which it defaults on its obligations as soon as June 1. Yet there are few signs of a compromise, as House Republicans have dug in on a proposal that demands deep spending cuts while the Biden administration continues to push for a clean raise. Where will this debate lead?
- “Washington Contentious.” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan gave remarks at our own Brookings Institution this past week, laying out a new approach to international economic policy. What should we make of this new ‘Washington Consensus’?
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| 0:32.6 | I'm John Emmins, internal law fair with an episode of rational security from a 7th, 2023. |
| 0:41.8 | For today's episode, the team at LawFair decided to cross post this week's episode of |
| 0:45.2 | rational security. |
| 0:46.2 | In this week's episode, the QAGON edition, Quinnellus hosts Skar, Anderson, and Alan Rosenstein |
| 0:51.8 | were joined by Sarah Fiendinani to discuss the week's big national security news stories, |
| 0:56.1 | including South Korea and the United States for new all of their security relationship. |
| 0:59.8 | Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's announcement of the United States might soon reach its |
| 1:03.1 | X state for debt default. |
| 1:05.3 | National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan's recent speech at Brookings and its implications |
| 1:08.7 | for the new Washington consensus and more. |
| 1:11.3 | This is rational security. |
| 1:15.5 | One thing that I love when there is a new rational security guest slash co-host for the |
| 1:22.1 | first time on the show is that they actually bother preparing properly for it, unlike |
| 1:28.6 | the rest of us who just phoned it in every time. |
| 1:31.7 | Sarah Fiendinani is very impressed by the copious notes that you have put in the planning |
| 1:36.3 | document. |
| 1:37.3 | I worry that your takes are going to be too considered, which is against the whole spirit |
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