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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.65.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Today's podcast asks what the big intelligence leaks actually tell us about the war in Ukraine, how Donald Trump is speaking about foreign policy, and what it means that Sen. Tim Scott might be poised to enter the presidential race. Give a listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Wednesday April 12, 2023.

0:28.4

I'm John Pudhord, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always, executive editor Abe Greenwald.

0:34.1

Hi Abe.

0:35.1

Hi John.

0:36.1

Media commentary columnist and American Enterprise Institute fellow Christine Rosen

0:40.6

high Christine.

0:41.6

Hi John.

0:42.6

And back with us Washington commentary columnist and American Enterprise and so fellow Matthew

0:47.5

Contnetti.

0:48.5

Hi Matt.

0:49.5

Hi John.

0:50.5

Okay, so I am getting a sense that the Natcons and the Ukraine war skeptics and others are

1:03.5

really enjoying the leak fest going on of the US intelligence documents and believe that

1:12.9

this is an I told you so moment for them because supposedly in their view this documents

1:18.6

reveal that the that I keep wanting to say rock war just to show you how old I am that

1:24.3

the Ukraine war isn't going well and that you see they always knew that it wasn't going

1:31.3

well and that everybody was happy talking it and they're right and everybody else is wrong.

1:37.0

And this strikes me as a very interesting workshop test.

1:41.1

I think Matt you might even have used the term workshop test or maybe Abe did about these

1:45.0

documents because of course what they reveal to people like me or maybe people like us is

1:50.5

not that it's going badly but that we are at a hinge moment in this war and that the

1:57.0

war's future depends on us resupplying and getting more heavily involved in the supply

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