Rational Security: The “Unboxing Day” Edition

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🗓️ 31 December 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott rang in the New Year with co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes by discussing some listener-submitted topics, including:

What does the AUKUS deal mean for the Five Eyes intelligence relationship?
How can courts enforce a gag order against former President Trump?
What would a President Nikki Haley mean for the Republican Party’s foreign policy?
Which is better, wizards or fighters?
Could anything stop former President Trump from appointing a cabinet of loyalists if elected back into the White House?
How is misinformation impacting public understandings of the Gaza conflict?
What advice would you give to folks beginning law school—and those married to them?
Could we just do away with hard printouts of classified information altogether?
How will China’s economic and demographic challenges impact its decision-making on Taiwan?
What does Prighozin’s death mean for Wagner in Africa?
What was your most (or least) favorite media of the year?

As for object lessons, they shared several sent in by listeners, including:

The video game Pentiment, a murder mystery set in Renaissance Bavaria;
The book “Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of Middle East Conflict” by Oren Kessler;
The “anti-reactionary conservative news site” The Dispatch, including its podcasts Advisory Opinions, The Remnant, and The Dispatch Podcast;
The book “Three Dangerous Men” by Seth Jones, examining military leaders in China, Iran, and Russia;
The book “Killers of the Flower Moon” by David Grann (but not the movie);
The podcast “The Prince” about the rise of Xi Jinping (along with The Economist’s other phenomenal podcast work);
The book “Listen Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People” by Thomas Frank;
The new book “For the People, For the Country” by John Ragosta, a political biography of Patrick Henry;
And LinkedIn as the hot new social networking site!

Thank you to everyone for listening to Rational Security and supporting Lawfare throughout the year. We hope you enjoy a Happy New Year, and we will be back in your feeds in 2024!

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0:30.0	I'm Kar Schillen, Law Fair Podcast Editor, with an episode of Rational Security for December 31st,
0:40.0	2023.
0:41.5	For today's episode, the team at Law Fair decided to cross post this week's episode of
0:46.1	Rational Security, a podcast hosted by Scott R. Anderson, Quinta Jurassic, and Alan
0:51.5	Rosenstein, in which they cover the week's big national security news stories.
0:56.0	Today's episode is entitled The Unboxing Day Edition.
1:00.0	In this episode, Anderson and Jurassic sat down with Benjamin Wittis to discuss topics submitted by listeners, including how courts can enforce a gag order against former President Trump, what Progosian's death means for the Wagner group in Africa, what advice
1:15.1	they'd give to folks just starting law school, and more.
1:18.6	This is rational security. And
1:28.0	guys, I think this is maybe the very first
1:34.4	transcontinental rational security episode as we've got both coasts and the middle of the country covered but not that time zone that Alan's often coming in from but other than that we got
1:38.1	most of it covered. I think we should invite Alan to pop in for a moment so we can have the Central Time Zone covered and then
1:46.1	ask somebody from Alaska and somebody from Hawaii to pop in so that we can say we've covered all US time zones.
1:55.6	See I'm mostly excited because as Molly Reynolds and I have become obsessed with the
2:01.2	fact that John Eastman's emails as produced to the January 6th
2:05.3	committee are for some reason all in Mountain Time, despite the fact that he was not on Mountain
2:10.6	Time.
2:11.8	And so now we have Scott on Mountain Time.
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