Ben Rhodes
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12,021 appearances
36 recordings
12 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 2d ago
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you know, the right approach.
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involved in the war.
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Yeah, I mean, I, you know, I don't, I don't want to assign that intention to the Ukrainians.
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happened.
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Yeah, but, you know, one could draw that, like, and again, they're not, they're the ones fighting.
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They're the ones dying.
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They're the ones who got invaded.
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Like, none of this is their fault.
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Right.
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They did not bring this upon themselves and they're fighting an existential war.
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But I do think that that's why it's important for external parties, Europe and the United States, to be doing more to try to turn the temperature down.
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In part for Ukraine's sake too, right?
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Because it's not as if, you know, they're not suffering in this war too.
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And it just, it feels like there's no blueprint for that other than Jared Kushner saying,
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giving interviews in which he demands that the Ukrainians, you know, accept all Putin's terms,
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last week.
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Yeah.
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I mean, if you're looking at a pretty unstable era for the next two years where the war in Iran could drag on with acute global economic challenges, maybe some financial crisis on the horizon, AI could lead to kind of like cyber disruptions like I talked about.
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Russia could escalate into Europe.
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We're dealing with a situation in which Friedrich Merz clearly does not have the confidence of his own public, right?
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