Trump's Failures in Israel and Ukraine | NonZero World feat. Robert Wright
Robert Wright's Nonzero
Nonzero
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🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:30 Connor’s farewell 3:28 What’s next at NonZero 8:20 The looming invasion of Gaza City 11:28 Israel's one-state solution 16:25 Why did Trump give up on Gaza? 21:04 The "blame-it-on-Bibi" farce 31:32 A disappointing week for Ukraine 33:31 How to make security guarantees work 40:21 Ukraine's ticking time bomb
Recorded August 22, 2025.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Non-Zero World. |
| 0:04.1 | I'm your host, Connor Eccles. |
| 0:08.6 | Each week, I break down the latest developments in U.S. foreign policy and other global news, |
| 0:14.3 | and I interview a leading expert or activist. |
| 0:17.0 | To gain access to full-length episodes and other exclusive content, |
| 0:27.1 | become an NZN member today at Robert Wright's Non-Zero Newsletter at NONZero.org. |
| 0:31.2 | Hey, Bob, how you doing? |
| 0:34.0 | I'm good, Connor. How are you? |
| 0:39.8 | I'm pretty good. Why don't I introduce us? I am Connor Eccles, the managing editor of NonZero. |
| 0:45.6 | This is NonZero World, the weekend edition of the NonZero podcast, so much we talk about all of the big foreign policy news of the week. |
| 0:48.5 | You are, of course, Robert Wright, the editor-in-chief of Non-Zero, the Non-Zero newsletter, |
| 0:53.8 | the Non-Zero Media Empire. |
| 0:56.1 | And we are here to talk today about a bunch of different things. |
| 0:59.7 | We're going to talk about lots and lots of news in Israel. |
| 1:04.0 | I think that we're going to be describing as sort of maybe a – it's past a nail in the coffin of the two-state solution. |
| 1:10.6 | We're in the sort of leaning hard into an Israel one-state solution type thing. |
| 1:16.1 | And then also about some complexity with the talks. |
| 1:18.5 | But first, we have a little bit of housekeeping. |
| 1:23.7 | Yeah. So I'm sorry to say that this will be your last week hosting non-zero world because |
| 1:33.9 | you are leaving non-zero, unless the reports I've heard of that affect your erroneous. |
| 1:38.0 | You can correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm probably not, right? |
| 1:41.1 | No, no, no, that's correct. |
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