The “Exile on Alan Street” Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, News, Government, Politics, Middleeast

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott sat down—2/3 in a new studio space! (sorry, not sorry, Alan)—to discuss the week's big national security news, including:

“A Sense of Doom in Khartoum.” An armed conflict between two rival military factions has broken out in Sudan. The United States and other major powers have evacuated their embassies, but numerous foreign nationals remain trapped on the ground, along with Sudanese civilians. How should the international community respond?
“Tuck Around and Find Out.” Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News, having been summarily dismissed this past Friday with little fanfare. Whether this is a response to the Dominion settlement or something else remains a mystery. What does his departure mean for the media landscape?
“He Was Just Biden’ His Time.” President Biden has finally confirmed what we all suspected: that he is running for re-election. How will national security fit into his candidacy, and the election to follow?

For object lessons, Quinta recommended Wesley Lowery's meditation on objectivity in journalism, "A Test of the News," out in the Columbia Journalism Review. Alan endorsed "The Diplomat," the new Netflix diplo-thriller (is that a thing?) featuring elder millennial heartthrob Keri Russell. And Scott sung the praises of an unexpectedly great live show (and new album) from the band Fruit Bats.

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0:00.8	So for those of you who are listening,
0:03.2	which is all of you, because this is a podcast,
0:05.7	I'd like to tell you that horrible injustice has occurred,
0:09.0	which is that the fragile equilibrium
0:11.9	under which RATSEC 2.0 has operated,
0:15.2	which is that we all sit in our sad home offices
0:19.0	and all zoom in or Zencaster in has been ended
0:24.3	and now Scott and Quinta, who clearly think
0:27.4	that they are better than me
0:28.4	because they live in DC,
0:30.2	are sitting literally next to each other
0:32.8	in the Brookings studio and I am still here
0:35.6	in Minnesota feeling alone and sorry for myself.
0:39.3	How dare you.
0:42.3	Alan, I don't know what to tell you,
0:43.4	you are no longer welcome IRL on equal terms.
0:49.4	You're no longer the lowest common denominator
0:52.6	for the podcast, you're just the lowest denominator.
0:54.9	Yeah, I think yeah.
0:56.5	Apologies.
0:57.4	Okay, that's pretty good actually.
0:59.5	It's not usually an arithmetic burn, but yeah.
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