They're Called "World Wars" for a Reason

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Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

That war in the Middle East had been predicted did little to allay the shock of all who’ve followed the news from Israel since October 7th. Today's first guest Niall Ferguson was among those who made such a prediction. He joins to discuss the Second Cold War, why it's warming up, and the difficulties the US will face if the temperature continues to rise. And Eli Lake joins to expound upon a shift in Israel's national security policy as the country concludes that existence in a world that contains Hamas is impossible.

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0:00.0	Ask not, what your country can do for you.
0:05.0	Ask what you can do for your country.
0:08.0	Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
0:13.0	It gets the ricochet bomb gas with Peter Robinson and Rob Larn.
0:16.0	James Lylex, we did the day we started with the events of the week
0:19.0	with Neil Ferguson and Eli Lake.
0:21.0	So let's ourselves a bomb gas.
0:23.0	We didn't want this war.
0:25.0	It was forced upon us in the most brutal and savage way.
0:29.0	But though Israel didn't start this war, Israel will finish it.
0:34.0	Once the Jewish people were stateless, once the Jewish people were defenseless, no longer.
0:41.0	Hamas will understand that by attacking us, they've made a mistake of historic proportion.
0:47.0	Welcome everybody. It is the ricochet bomb gas number 662.
0:51.0	I'm James Lylex in a very dank-lashing clammy Minnesota.
0:55.0	Join by Rob Long in New York, which I hope is more abdominal and beautiful in Peter Robinson in California.
1:02.0	And we're all here and spelled out as a week.
1:06.0	And what is there to say actually other than it's illustrative to find the scales clanging off some people's eyes like manhole covers.
1:15.0	It is revealing to see what some people are saying on Twitter when the other ends is put before them.
1:20.0	But none of this seems to be any surprise the way everything has got.
1:24.0	The only question is how it's going to shake out.
1:27.0	Everybody thinks it's going to shake out in a way that will change things forever.
1:30.0	We know the way this usually goes and that's usually not what happens, but maybe it might.
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