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Rational Security

The "Very Windy" Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, News, Government, Politics, Middleeast

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

This week, Alan, Quinta and Scott were joined once again by Lawfare executive editor Natalie Orpett! They sat down to discuss:

  • “A Mess in Texas”: Texas’s Republican governor has appointed one of President Trump’s former election lawyers as Secretary of State. Are Trump’s supporters planning to steal the next election, or are Democrats’ concerns overblown?
  • “In Mother Russia, Bear Poke You”: A Russian spy agency is still trying to penetrate U.S. networks, despite clear warnings of repercussions from the United States. Is the Biden administration’s strategy failing? And what should it do instead?
  • “Chain of Fools”: The worst of the global pandemic may be behind us, but the disruptions to the global supply chain are still piling up. Has the drive for an integrated global economy hit its high water mark?

For object lessons, Quinta urged listeners to get their flu shot; Alan celebrated his favorite kitchen unitasker, the spaetzle maker; Scott recommended rewatching the first season of Saturday Night Live for a phenomenal snapshot into mid-1970s culture; and Natalie put on her tourism board hat to sing the virtues of her home city of Chicago.

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0:00.0

Ellen were you from originally? I'm from the New York City area. I was born in New

0:07.3

York City, New Jersey, Long Island. Got it. No, I did not I did not experience real

0:12.3

cold until college, but you're from Chicago, so you know what it's like. Yeah, I mean

0:16.3

Chicago is not Minnesota cold though. Not of lakes. I think that's right. It's not

0:20.8

a lake. It's isn't kind of it's I thought it was kind of grayer. It's drafty. It's

0:25.6

very gray. It's gray for like eight months a year. You know, Quinter, that's not why

0:30.2

they call it the windy city, actually. We did. It's not. No, there's no. It's called

0:34.6

the windy city because of its politicians and cartoonish levels of corruption. Exactly.

0:40.4

Not because it's actually windy though it is also quite windy. What is I'm going to

0:44.8

show myself to be a total idiot here? What's the connection between corruption and levels

0:48.5

of wind? That's apparently an expression from whenever that terminology came to be that

0:54.2

of someone. If someone was corrupt, they were windy. Yeah, like what they say is full

0:57.9

of wind. Like they're full of wind. Oh, I never I never know that. I know that as a very

1:03.4

polite way of calling someone flatulent, but apparently it's also a way. Well, that

1:06.8

was why I was confused. I should also say I just had a huge gust of wind over in my apartment

1:11.6

and I mean that outside winds. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Rational Security 2.0 aka Rational

1:26.7

Security into dorkness. I am your host, got our Anderson. I am joining here with my

1:32.0

friends, Quintet Jurassic and Alan Rosenstein say hello, Quintet Alan. Hi. That was great.

1:38.8

I really like him. We're saying hello on command. Hello, Scott. I'm trying to keep this

1:44.7

thing moving. Keep it breezy. Keep it easy. We're going along because we have a very special

1:48.2

guest with us. Our first return customer as a Rational Security guest, Lothair Executive

1:53.0

Editor, Natalie, quote, norbit, unquote, orbit. How are you, Natalie? Good to have you

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