Send Rudy Giuliani to Syria

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben talk about disaster unfolding in Syria, fact check Trump’s claim that he’s ending wars, explain who the Kurds are and why they’re US allies, survey the international reaction to Turkey’s offensive in Syria and explain why nuclear weapons make everything more complicated. Then they talk through the latest on impeachment and the corruption of US foreign policy, evaluate the détente in the trade war with China, highlight some good news out of Ethiopia, and talk about the latest in the dispute between the NBA and China. They end with a discussion of soccer diplomacy and how Senator Lindsey Graham got prank called. Then Vice News’s Isobel Yeung joins to talk about her reporting on the ground in Syria, Hong Kong and Xinjiang, China.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Welcome back to PotSafe for World on Tommy Vitor.
0:12.5	I'm Bedroads.
0:13.5	Ben, I'm kind of pissed today.
0:16.5	Good, so why?
0:17.6	That's kind of a steady state for me.
0:19.6	Yeah, I mean, you and I have this mantra before we record these shows that
0:24.0	it's better to pot happy than you agree.
0:25.6	But like last week when we were talking, I just didn't think that
0:29.9	this Syria operation was going to happen and it's pretty awful.
0:34.2	Yeah, it's hard to think of a worse week for America, for
0:38.7	policy, for kind of a window into the consequences of the
0:43.2	Trump presidency, the state of the world.
0:45.0	Yeah, it's pretty dark.
0:46.0	It's pretty dark.
0:46.8	Okay, well with that wonderful intro, we're going to start with Syria.
0:49.7	So what we're going to do is we're going to update you guys on what we know about
0:51.6	the situation in the ground.
0:53.2	We're going to evaluate Trump's claim that he is ending wars and bringing
0:56.3	troops home.
0:57.1	That's true.
1:00.2	We're going to talk about who the Kurds are, what the international reaction has been
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