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The Zebra Problem and Russiagate as the Original Sin of the Trump Administration

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

As one of our guests on this week's episode, Max Bergmann of the Center for American Progress pointed out, the Trump Administration presents the so-called "Zebra Problem." Zebra's stripes might not appear great camouflage against green or ground plains, but they are a very effective aid in helping individual zebras blend in against the backdrop of the herd, providing good protection against lions. The Trump equivalent is being responsible for so many crimes that they all tend to blur together--which may have the effect of lulling the public to inaction and keeping Trump & Co. from ending up wearing stripes. That said, as Max and our other guest, Joe Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund point out, another consequence of Trump's serial abuses is that while the Russia case may get the headlines, it may have been the least of the blows they have struck against America and American worldwide leadership. But look more closely and you will see that Trump-Russia touches almost all of Trump's dangerous international policies and our great discussion with these two explains why. Tune in for important perspectives that are seldom offered! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Washington DC. Also joining us in Washington DC although we're in different

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locations in order to foil our enemies.

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We have Joe Serincioni of the Plowshares Project,

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which he runs.

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I believe his title there is Lord High Commission.

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And. I can miss you. And we have Max Bergman who is joining us for the first time and I'm very glad of that

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who is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and is directing the Moscow Project there, which we will talk about in a second.

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Hi Max, welcome.

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Thanks for having me.

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And Max and Joe both have their own podcast, which is making me nervous.

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But Joe, what's the name of your podcast?

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