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Trump's Ceasefire and Its Discontents

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JL;DR SUMMARY Eli Lake joins the Commentary Magazine Podcast to discuss the recent U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Iran, and how Donald Trump's reaction to its immediate breach signifies a complex geopolitical moment. 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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U.S. Foreign PolicyIranDonald TrumpConspiracy TheoriesCeasefireGeopoliticsPolitical DiscourseNew York Mayoral Race

Places mentioned

Washington DC, United States
"I was walking on sunshine until about an hour ago when Donald Trump came out of the White House to go to, I guess, this NATO meeting and cursed out Israel and Iran."
Iran
"It's the ceasefire, and then, as the hour of the ceasefire was approaching, the Iranians launched the last, what one thought would be..."
Be'er Sheva, Southern District, Israel
"The last barrage of missiles they could get in before the deadline, blew up a building in Be'er Sheva, and then three hours, and continued firing intermittently for three hours after the ceasefire deadline."
Israel
"Israel said, we have to respond. They violated the ceasefire that we agreed to, and planes took off to do just that."
New York, United States
"when the anthrax envelopes started showing up at the New York Post, 10 feet from where I was sitting at NBC News."
Minnesota, United States
"Someone could go to the Mall of America, you know, in in in the Twin Cities and and, you know, and do a mass casualty event or something like that."
Qatar
"Yeah, I mean, like Tucker Carlson's first response is I want to thank Qatar."
South Korea
"But the North Koreans had already gone nuclear."
North Carolina, United States
"and so the early, you know, that you saw these numbers as the Republicans, like, for example, in North Carolina, like marched ahead, like slowly marched ahead after early votes were counted in various places."
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