Joe Biden’s Eurotrip

Worldly

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Zack, Jenn, and Alex discuss President Joe Biden’s big trip to Europe, where he met with the other leaders of the G7 and NATO countries as well as with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The gang examine what Biden actually accomplished on his trip, discuss the furor that erupted on Political Science Twitter over a comment Biden made during a press conference, and debate whether the Putin meeting was as important as the media hype made it out to be. Also, Worldly makes an important announcement. References: If you want to look at all the fact sheets from Biden’s Europe trip, it’s worth perusing the White House’s Briefing Room website. Alex wrote about the perils of the Biden-Putin summit and the big bet Biden made. And here’s the tweet Alex sent, where you can then see the reactions from political scientists. It’s worth looking back at this past Vox piece on the 2018 G7. Back in 2018, Zack wrote a good Vox piece on America’s alliances. Hosts: Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp), senior correspondent, Vox Jennifer Williams (@jenn_ruth), senior foreign editor, Vox Alex Ward (@AlexWardVox), senior reporter, White House, Vox Consider contributing to Vox: If you value Worldly’s work, please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts More to explore: Subscribe for free to Today, Explained, Vox’s daily podcast to help you understand the news, hosted by Sean Rameswaram. About Vox: Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow us: Vox.com Newsletter: Vox Sentences Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A lot of us during the pandemic have been really excited about the prospect of traveling,
0:13.6	of going somewhere new, maybe a foreign country, doing a bunch of things, meeting interesting
0:18.0	people.
0:19.0	Well, Joe Biden got to live the dream this week, doing a little Euro trip, where he met
0:23.7	all sorts of prominent leaders in the G7 and one Vladimir Putin.
0:30.4	So that was a very interesting spectacle.
0:32.8	Today on Worldly, part of the Vox Media podcast network, we're going to talk about what
0:38.0	Joe Biden's trip to Europe tells us about American foreign policy, specifically towards Europe
0:44.8	and Russia in the Biden administration, and more broadly, how Europe and Eurasia is handling
0:49.6	the after effects of the Trump presidency and all of its various different forms.
0:54.1	I'm Zach Beacham here, as always, with Gene Williams and Alex Ward.
0:56.9	Hey.
0:57.9	Oh, yeah.
0:58.9	Biden was enjoying a Euro trip.
1:02.4	I really, honestly, when we were talking about this episode, I wanted to make it all about
1:07.7	the Teen Sex Comedy Euro trip that I really enjoyed when I was like 18 years old.
1:12.2	And it's very good.
1:13.2	That's like a decade and a half ago, almost literally, oh my god, I'm so old.
1:18.6	So first of all, you need to know from this movie, really, it's just a song, Scotty doesn't
1:22.2	know.
1:23.2	Scotty doesn't know the fiona and me.
1:27.4	Okay, I'm not going to keep going, but it's actually great song.
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