Ben Rhodes

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12,021 appearances 36 recordings 12 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 5d ago

Ben Rhodes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 32 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 5.

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Pod Save the World · Can Germany’s Far Right Be Stopped? · 9 Sep 2026 podcast

w yeah, we've got this this Florida real estate developer guy who knows nothing about diplomacy, who's living fantasy camp, like all these Trump people are living fantasy. voice-verified

I'm so glad he had a nice train ride and reminded him of going to Grandma and you know, the Ukrainians gave him a good meal and he's flattered to be in the same room as Vladimir Putin. voice-verified

Meanwhile, Jared sounds like a guy who's like taping uh an aud audition tape for like a McKinsey job. voice-verified

uh like an internship or something, like uh this is how we do business. voice-verified

Like these guys are just like so voice-verified

Completely out of their depth. voice-verified

You know, they're they're talking to Vladimir Putin, who's been like on the world stage for over a quarter century, right? voice-verified

Like you you really think those guys are gonna be able to like move Putin on issues? voice-verified

And then they're going to Ukraine, a country that i is rapidly running out of interceptors in part because these guys like helped start a dumb war in Iran. voice-verified

Uh so it is just something sort of like the nausea. voice-verified

About seeing them there. voice-verified

But yes, the problem is we really desperately do need some aggressive diplomatic effort to try to bring this war to an end or at least to get it to some kind of ceasefire. voice-verified

Because otherwise, you're going to have a situation where the Russians are going to escalate in the winter. voice-verified

They're going to bombard Kyiv. voice-verified

They're going to try to break them once again. voice-verified

And this time they may have more success because of the low amount of interceptors and just the wear and tear on Ukraine. voice-verified

Ukrainian society. voice-verified

Meanwhile, the Ukrainians will probably respond with like ever more aggressive attacks into Russia, uh at ever more targets, like pushing the envelope there, which then raises the stakes of the potential escalation into Europe. voice-verified

Like this thing is not moving in the right direction. voice-verified

I think part of what needs to happen voice-verified

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