Tanks for Nothing

Pod Save the World

Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.8 • 25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Tommy and Ben discuss a corruption scandal in Ukraine, the debate over sending tanks to Kyiv, Mike Pence gets in on the classified hoarding game, the worst parts of Mike Pompeo’s trash new book, protests in France, Jacinda Ardern’s legacy, Kenneth Roth’s Harvard saga, and the State Department’s war on fonts. Then, Ben is joined by Olesya Vartanyan, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group to talk about the escalating Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Welcome back to PodSafe, the world on Tommy VTour.
0:12.8	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.9	I'm looking at Ben's desk.
0:15.6	He has a thoroughly dog-yered copy of Mike Pompeo's new book.
0:20.8	So, until you've been in hours in this thing?
0:22.6	A true classic.
0:24.4	A good job.
0:25.2	And to take a place among some of the great works of fiction and uh...
0:30.4	Oh, fiction?
0:30.9	That's a fiction book, right?
0:31.8	That's the brightest, right?
0:32.9	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:33.9	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:34.6	No, no, actually, like actually the...
0:36.8	That's not true.
0:37.6	We'll get to it, but part of what is so gross about the book is that it actually is all true.
0:43.7	It's, yeah, it's...
0:45.0	Well, yeah, but that's a point.
0:45.7	Other than his self-regard.
0:46.7	No, it's boundless.
0:48.4	Today, we got a lot of big news.
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