Max Fisher joins Ben to discuss the ever-weirder Prigozhin circus, the last-second drama over bringing Sweden into NATO, whether Ukraine should join, the U.S. sending controversial cluster bombs to Ukraine, a seismic shift in European politics and what it means for the future of the far-right, an American reckoning over Israel following the raid in Jenin, an attempt to deescalate China, and why Vietnam banned the new Barbie movie. Then Ben talks to Ambassador Julianne Smith, U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO, about Ukraine and Sweden’s NATO membership bid and her work in Vilnius this week.
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Rudy Giuliani's disinformation expo
North Korea debuts a massive new missile
COVID Commander-in-Chief
Trump’s foreign IOUs
Assassin-in-Chief
The Missing Peace
Trump’s military complex
From Putin to pandas with Karen Attiah
The RNC live from Jerusalem
Blockbuster Senate report on Russian election interference
Kamala Harris on the world stage
Explosions in Beirut
Ambassadors Gone Wild
Everything Mike Pompeo touches turns to sh*t
Dems in Congress push for a more progressive foreign policy
Trump’s cruel immigration policies
Russian bounties with Rep Adam Schiff
John Bolton’s sh*tty book
Assault on the press and democracy in the Philippines
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