Ben Wittes
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379 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Ben Wittes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, whatever it takes.
Like, I think there are a lot of people who thought
Putin was going to win because they believe evil is cool, but evil when it's losing like nobody's pro Viktor Orban now.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Which is exactly what you would have predicted six weeks ago.
And I think on this show, repeatedly, you did predict.
I'm about three weeks behind in my podcast listening chronically.
But did you ever doubt?
Oh, I love being two.
I'm always about two, three weeks behind.
The thing is, these calls have been so easy, like listening to JVL Crowe about how he got the the memorandum of understanding exactly right.
Who didn't get that right?
You know, like but I do like think that the fact that this was not going to be a stable climb down was interesting.
deeply knowable and known by like nobody was fooled and thought, ah, peace in our time.
There's no there was no Neville Chamberlain here.
Well, he tried to be a Neville Chamberlain, but he didn't declare Neville Chamberlain got six months out of it before Hitler took the rest of Czechoslovakia.
Trump got six weeks.
Right.
There was never any doubt that
in any reasonable person's mind, that this wasn't going to lead to a stable de-escalation.
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