Episode 11: Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

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4.8 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Back in the innocent days of Episode 7, Andy, Michael, and Tarik thought that US economic sanctions policy had reached its apex of stupidity. But COVID-19, as it has with so many things, shows them that no, things can always get stupider. A lot stupider. Join them as they explore the "might makes right" underpinnings of international law from the American perspective.

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0:00.0	We discussed opening with some Bernie Cope given that we're recording on the evening of his exit from the
0:08.5	2020 Democratic presidential primary, so I thought it would be perhaps not unrelated to the
0:16.3	subject of the episode of sanctions right because Bernie is is one of two people who
0:21.4	voted against the most recent rounds of economic sanctions against Iran.
0:26.1	A 98-2 vote in 2017.
0:30.0	Him in Rand Paul, the only two two felt that maybe additional sanctions were not such a great idea
0:36.4	So effectively the only person because we're not gonna credit Rand Paul
0:40.7	Exactly I don't know if he counts as a person.
0:43.0	I want to find Rand Paul's neighbor for not permanently disabling him.
0:48.0	Well, he should have he should have paralyzed him.
0:55.0	He should have paralyzed him.
0:57.0	I might have to cut that.
1:00.0	Look, I'm not in a fucking good mood, okay?
1:02.0	Bernie dropped out. I'm not feeling too good about it.
1:05.0	The kind of shit that we're going to talk about this episode is so fucking dark
1:10.0	and the one guy in Congress that I can respect and who voted against it is you know just
1:16.8	got torn up.
1:17.8	Yeah, you're talking about Rand Paul right?
1:20.2	Yeah, right?
1:21.2	Right. I mean 98.2 though, if anything was an American consensus, our Iran sanctions program certainly would count as right up there on things that we all agree
1:37.0	are good.
1:38.0	Yeah, resounding bipartisan political endorsement.
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