The “Specter or Mirage?” Edition

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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World leaders convene in Cornwall and Brussels as President Biden makes his first official trip abroad. Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin have a face-to-face meeting in Geneva. And leak investigations aplenty have ensnared journalists, former officials and members of Congress.

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0:00.8	So lessons in translation and apparently in like Russian outlook. President Putin was asked
0:06.8	in a press conference after the summit just now about the state of the US relationship.
0:12.4	And according to some of the translations he said in what there is no happiness in life,
0:17.0	only the mirage of happiness or the specter of happiness as some described it.
0:23.3	He sounds like an Ingmar Bergman meteorist. There's no happiness. There is only the ongoing
0:32.9	chess match with death. I think it brings up the old added that you never want to be in a nuclear
0:39.4	standoff with an existentialist. Well, then I guess Biden was smart to me with him. Indeed, indeed.
0:54.3	Hello and welcome to Rational Security, the Specter or Mirage edition. I am Shane Harris. I like
1:02.1	specter of happiness personally. I think it sounds like some sort of like wacky bond, Dylan,
1:06.7	spin off. Really, it sounds like like an emo band. Specter of happiness. Note that down for the
1:14.8	credit. Oh, I like this. I like I'm just starting noodling on this right now. And it seems to me
1:20.3	like it's a very subtle distinction, right? I mean, mirage is something. I guess they're both
1:25.1	something that you think is there that's not there, but I hear specter and I think ghost.
1:29.7	Like, maybe there was one's happiness and now it's gone, but the specter remains.
1:34.4	I'm going to look up the Russian word while we're talking. Okay, very good. I'm pleased to do.
1:39.6	I am here in the virtual jungle studio with my good friend's been with us tomorrow,
1:44.0	and our very special guest, Jeremy Shapiro. If you have been here since the beginning of Rational
1:50.5	Security, like we have, you'll remember Jeremy was the second first guest on the second ever
1:56.9	episode of the podcast. I am the OG or the original guest. I take credit for everything that
2:04.7	happens so far. Definitely. It's been frankly all downhill since then. It's been a sort of
2:17.4	world of drugs and despair. So I'm hoping that this will be the way that I crawl back out of that
2:23.7	pick. There's no commentary like Rational Security commentary. This is the pulp fiction for your
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