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.
Please don’t bomb Iran
Threats from Iran and the time Ben met the Queen
Venezuela, Libya and the Russian navy's beluga whale
ISIS in Sri Lanka, cruelty to Cuba, Ukrainian elections
Assange arrested, Bernie's foreign policy, Bowe Bergdahl and Afghanistan
Israeli elections, Iran under fire and the IRA's history
Democracy resurgent in Europe(?) and Israeli elections
Brexit, fighting in Gaza, ISIS defeated(?) and eliminating nukes
White supremacists radicalized online
Brexit and is Dick Cheney good now? (no)
Antisemitism, the NSA, Khashoggi, then Fmr Dep Secretary of State Bill Burns
BONUS POD: North Korea summit
Trump's North Korea summit v.2, Venezuela, international LGBT rights
How former National Security Advisor Tom Donilon views the world
Ilhan Omar’s tweets spark a debate about anti-semitism
544 days in an Iranian prison
Who is President of Venezuela?
Brexit breakdown
Owned by Russia but itching to bomb Iran
New year, same problems
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