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24 Feb

Trump Fealty, Ukraine, and Crowd Size

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JL;DR SUMMARY The episode explores the current political climate surrounding the Trump administration's stance on Ukraine, paralleling it with past instances where officials echoed Trump's controversial views. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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Elon Musk  Trump Administration  Foreign Policy  International Relations  Media Influence  Federal Budget  Tucker Carlson  Ukraine Conflict  Leadership Style  Historical Literacy 

Places mentioned

Ukraine
"Witkoff, the most interesting, because he is the least experienced in terms of foreign policy and seems to know the least, effectively endorsing a very, very radical view that... a view radical to... and very much a species of the right, the isolationist right, that Russia was goaded into... into the war because Ukraine wanted to be in NATO and that it was defensive, Russia, whatever was the case, Russia somehow was defending itself against NATO, so how could you, you know, how could you accuse it of having started the war,"
Russian Federation
"Witkoff, the most interesting, because he is the least experienced in terms of foreign policy and seems to know the least, effectively endorsing a very, very radical view that... a view radical to... and very much a species of the right, the isolationist right, that Russia was goaded into... into the war because Ukraine wanted to be in NATO and that it was defensive, Russia, whatever was the case, Russia somehow was defending itself against NATO, so how could you, you know, how could you accuse it of having started the war,"
Moscow, Russian Federation
"Well, Jon, he also, in one of the interviews, said that he had a three-hour meeting with Vladimir Putin."
Saudi Arabia
"And I think Carlson's hand shouldn't be ignored here. You know, he's seems to be spending a lot of time in the Gulf these days, but that doesn't preclude him from calling his friend Donald Trump."
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
"J.D. Vance has been on the record about Ukraine since the very beginning, saying he doesn't care what happened in Ukraine. He told the Munich conference that the enemy within Europe is much more important than the enemy than the threat."
France
"We're recording on February 24th, the French President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to visit with Donald Trump today."
London, England, United Kingdom
"Later in the week, the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will be visiting."
Kyiv, Ukraine
"And then Zelensky still hasn't signed because he still doesn't see the security guarantees he wants."
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