Rational Security: The “Sociopathic Nose Wrinkle” Edition
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🗓️ 17 March 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott got together for the last time before Scott’s paternity leave to talk over the week’s big national security news, including:
- “Kitchen Table Issues.” President Biden delivered a feisty State of the Union last week, one that took aim at both those worrying about his age and his apparent 2024 rival, former President Donald Trump. But what does his handling of key national security issues, ranging from Ukraine to Gaza, tell us about where the country is headed, and what can we gather from the response from the other party?
- “Tik Tik Tik...” The end may be nigh for TikTok in the United States, at least in its current incarnation. The House has passed a bill that will ban TikTok from app stores beginning in the Fall unless its Chinese owners divest—legislation that President Biden has said he will sign, but that former President Trump recently flipped on. Where is this new major social media platform headed, at least in the United States?
- “Trying to Stay Alive.” Policymakers are desperately working to clear the domestic legal hurdles in both Kenya and the United States for an ad hoc peacekeeping mission to Haiti, aimed at stemming the surge of gang violence there. But will the 1,000 Kenyan police officers set to be deployed be enough to restore peace and security to the country?
For object lessons, Alan doubled down on WBUH’s podcast “The Big Dig,” a compelling story of sex, lies, and infrastructure (or at least one of the three). Quinta finally saw Oppenheimer and gave it a “meh.” And Scott gave tribute to the glory of his 30s, now that they have left him.
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| 1:16.5 | 2024. |
| 1:18.2 | For today's episode, the team at Lawfair decided to cross post this week's episode of Rational |
| 1:22.4 | Security, a Roundtable |
| 1:24.0 | podcast hosted by Scott R Anderson, Quinta Jurassic, and Alan Z. |
| 1:27.8 | Rosenstein, in which they discuss the week's top national security news stories. Today's episode is entitled |
| 1:34.2 | the sociopathic nose-wrinkle edition. In the episode Anderson Jurassic and |
| 1:38.8 | Rosenstein discussed President Joe Biden's State of the Union Speech, the House's Tic-Toc bill that aims to ban the |
| 1:45.1 | app in the fall unless Chinese owners divest, the worsening situation in Haiti that awaits |
| 1:50.1 | the ad hoc peacekeeping mission of 1,000 Kenyan police officers and more. |
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