The coup in Myanmar, explained
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben discuss the military takeover in Myanmar and how President Biden should respond, Alexey Navalny's sentencing in Russia, Poland's near-total abortion ban, the Biden administration's pause on arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, textbook revisions in Saudi Arabia, and disparities in Israel's mass vaccination campaign. Then Ben talks to journalist and host of the Black Diplomats podcast Terrell Jermaine Starr about how domestic activism fits into American foreign policy.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:10.7 | Welcome back to Potsever World, I'm Tommy Vitor. |
| 0:12.7 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:13.6 | Then I think the theme for today's show is |
| 0:17.2 | threats to democracy and what the world can or should do about it. |
| 0:21.5 | Because we got the coup in Myanmar and what options |
| 0:25.1 | that the Biden administration has or does not have to respond to it. |
| 0:29.5 | We will talk about the sentencing of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. |
| 0:33.9 | There's a major attack on abortion rights in Poland. |
| 0:36.9 | We'll get into President Biden's decision to pause armsales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE. |
| 0:43.3 | And then some interesting and notable reforms made in Saudi Arabia. |
| 0:47.6 | And then Israel's vaccination effort. |
| 0:49.3 | But it does feel like democracy is being tested in a lot of ways right now. |
| 0:53.9 | Maybe shortly after our own was tested. |
| 0:56.4 | Yeah, there's a common theme here. Common threat. |
| 1:00.2 | Yeah, it's not ideal, but good. We'll fight through it. |
| 1:03.8 | And then our guest today is Tarel Dremain's star, |
| 1:06.9 | the host of Black Diplomats. It's a great podcast. |
| 1:09.4 | He's also a senior reporter at the root. |
| 1:11.2 | You guys just talked. Can you give us a preview of what folks will hear in the interview? |
| 1:14.5 | Yeah, I really wanted to just, you know, |
| 1:16.0 | Tarel sings some really interesting stuff at Black Diplomats. |
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