Will China arm Putin?

Pod Save the World

Politics, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben discuss changes to Mexico’s electoral system, the botched presidential election in Nigeria, Jill Biden’s trip to Africa, new intelligence about the covid lab leak theory, a Brexit breakthrough, more detail on China potentially selling arms to Russia and Europe’s pitch for a potential defense pact and peace deal, the World Bank, and Biden’s immigration policy. Then Tommy is joined by Israel’s Labor Party Leader Merav Michaeli to discuss recent violence the region, Netanyahu’s proposed judicial changes, and the fate of Israeli politics with Netanyahu at the helm.

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.7	Welcome back to Pazae the World on Tommy Betor.
0:12.8	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.7	Ben you've been reading a lot of Jean-La Cauré lately.
0:17.1	Yeah.
0:17.6	Why does he have the next in his British?
0:18.8	Yeah.
0:19.3	Well, and it's a pent-name.
0:20.5	Yeah.
0:21.3	Yeah, I have a piece out in the Atlantic.
0:23.2	I've read so many La Cauré books,
0:24.8	but then they put out this collection of his letters.
0:27.2	And so I just kind of used that as a hook to write.
0:30.0	Who is he writing letters to?
0:31.8	It's actually got an interesting because he has letters
0:34.8	to other writers like Graham Green and Philip Roth
0:38.7	and people like that.
0:39.3	But then he's got letters to everybody
0:42.4	from the person that was the model for George Smiley,
0:45.6	like the iconic character.
0:46.6	Oh, they're like the real person?
0:48.0	Yeah, the person he actually modeled Smiley on.
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