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Rational Security

The "It Was Always Russia" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

A weekly discussion of national security and foreign policy matters hosted by Shane Harris of the Washington Post and featuring Brookings senior fellows Susan Hennessey, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and Benjamin Wittes.

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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination.

0:12.0

Not a car in the world, as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there.

0:20.0

This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does.

0:25.0

Avanti West Coast. Feel good travel.

0:33.0

So who's getting pinched? I'm not somewhere in green.

0:36.0

Uh-oh. I'm not wearing green, but no one here is going to pinch me.

0:39.0

The only pinching I want is the pinch associated with the administration of the vaccine.

0:46.0

Always comes back to the vaccine.

0:48.0

There's a little lower with your segues.

0:50.0

Would you like a St. Patty's Day vaccine then? Sure.

0:53.0

I would take it dyed green.

0:56.0

I would really like a shamrock shake from McDonald's right now, now that we're talking about it.

1:01.0

If McDonald's wanted to sponsor this podcast and give me a shamrock shake, I would drink it.

1:08.0

I'm not wearing green actually.

1:10.0

Really?

1:11.0

Yeah, I did.

1:12.0

I dressed my kids. So I wanted to dress the kids and something like, you know, sort of say bad shape, but all our daughter had was like a short sleeve shirt with a sequined shamrock on it.

1:22.0

So it is cold here today. So I like put it over another shirt.

1:26.0

There you go.

1:27.0

She has like a very sort of like drunk leprechaun kind of vibe.

1:31.0

So that's perfect.

1:33.0

She's just perfect.

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