Ukraine Sea Drones and Peace Talks

Pod Save the World

Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

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🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben talk about the global response to the coup in Niger, Ukraine’s sea drone attacks and peace talks in Saudi Arabia, new polling about approval Biden’s foreign policy and support for Ukraine, a quick look at some foreign policy debates in the 2024 GOP primary, and reports that US Marines will defend ships in the Persian gulf. Then updates from Colombia, Pakistan, ISIS, Chinese information operations, crypto scams, and why Rishi Sunak is the Prime Minister of Soul Cycle. Then Crooked Contributor Max Fisher joins to talk about the health of democracy around the world.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Welcome back to Potsay the World. I'm Tommy Vittor.
0:12.5	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.5	Listeners, you might assume that Ben and my text conversations are about wonky nerdy stuff,
0:19.9	like what Chris Van Hollen is saying about, uh, aid to Israel.
0:23.9	And you'd be right.
0:24.8	Yeah.
0:25.5	But it's also about, uh, the hilarious content that Twitter users are making
0:29.6	about a brawl in Alabama on sort of a river walk.
0:33.4	That consumed most of my morning thanks to you.
0:36.5	Uh, I have to admit that I had one of those days yesterday when I could just tell
0:40.8	it early on, I was going to be very productive and I actually think I end up spending
0:45.0	about two hours consuming that content.
0:47.2	Oh, yeah, I did.
0:47.7	I told you guys 45 minutes, but that was, that was, I actually...
0:50.4	You wondered.
0:50.8	...how much I've deleted, uh, because I was embarrassed.
0:53.2	It's like when you tell the doctor you had three drinks this week on average.
0:56.6	Yeah, exactly.
0:57.3	Oh, you know, maybe I have a glass of wine tonight, you know?
1:00.1	Once every while.
1:00.7	Um, yeah, I, we should probably not comment too much on it.
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