Warmongering Diplomacy
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Amidst the Mueller saga, Trump finds himself facing a number of subpoenas from Congress. Meanwhile in foreign policy, tensions with Iran are escalating, and Trump is going all-in on the trade war with China, after raising U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods. This is happening while one million Uighur Muslims are being held in internment camps in Xinjiang. Julio is joined by Melissa Etehad, foreign affairs reporter for the Los Angeles Times, and All-Star Vann Newkirk, staff writer at The Atlantic, to discuss.
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| 0:25.0 | It's not hard to imagine that a guy who actually built a persona and business out of corporate |
| 0:31.2 | rating that did nothing else successfully would see the world |
| 0:35.6 | and diplomacy purely in the terms of corporate rating and power. |
| 0:40.4 | Hey, welcome to In the Thaca Podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:48.6 | I'm Julio Ricardo Barella. |
| 0:50.6 | I'm hosting solo today. And I'm hosting solo today and I'm incredibly excited to nerd out a little bit about foreign |
| 0:58.8 | policy with two amazing guests. |
| 1:01.6 | So joining us from Los Angeles making your ITT debut is |
| 1:05.9 | Melissa Etahad Foreign Affairs reporter for the LA Times. Hey Melissa. Hey |
| 1:10.9 | thanks for having me. We're happy to have you and also joining us from |
| 1:15.0 | Washington, D.C. is in the thick all-star. Van Newkirk, staff writer at the |
| 1:20.8 | Atlantic, welcome back man. |
| 1:23.0 | Hey, they're having me back. |
| 1:25.0 | Oh, of course. |
| 1:26.0 | All right, so I actually want to talk about foreign policy |
| 1:29.0 | because I think it's being completely ignored, |
| 1:32.0 | but it feels like it's a checklist item that you have to talk |
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