What comes next for Afghanistan
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4.8 • 25.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Tommy and Ben talk about the United States ending its war in Afghanistan as both countries navigate what comes next, what a visit from Israel’s prime minister can tell us about the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship, and where things stand with Russia’s opposition movement weeks away from parliamentary elections.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Pate the World, I'm Tony Vittor. |
| 0:12.8 | I'm Ben Rhodes. |
| 0:14.3 | Here we are in studio Ben. |
| 0:15.4 | We just watched Showbiden speak. |
| 0:17.6 | We just watched our former colleague Doug Lute, who was the warsar, I believe it was |
| 0:22.4 | his title, the Bush administration and then the Obama administration. |
| 0:26.0 | It's kind of like we're back in what 2011 or something. |
| 0:30.8 | Yeah, well it's also your birthday time. |
| 0:33.5 | It's my birthday. |
| 0:35.3 | My birthday and Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Salman's birthday. |
| 0:38.8 | I saw that in Politico Playbook, marking the occasion. |
| 0:42.9 | So for listeners, so listeners probably know what Politico is. |
| 0:46.3 | They have a thing called Playbook, which is frankly a very helpful tip sheet if you want |
| 0:49.7 | to kind of know. |
| 0:50.7 | No, it's not. |
| 0:51.7 | Well, if you want to know like big articles of the day, it's like this sort of, it's |
| 0:55.7 | Twitter's for, you know, like the DCs, like guys, right? |
| 0:58.6 | It's like Provda for DC. |
| 0:59.8 | It's like doing PR for the district, including like, you know, a rolling series of book parties |
| 1:05.9 | basically with the same people and they do birthdays and stuff. |
| 1:08.3 | And it was very nice of them to put me in there. |
| 1:10.7 | I don't, whatever. |
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