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American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Danny and Derek plug into the mainframe. This week: in Gaza, the ceasefire takes effect (0:37), allowing a surge of humanitarian aid (3:51), the latter being partly facilitated by Hamas’s police force back in power (5:50). Meanwhile, an agreement on the second phase of the ceasefire remains to be seen (7:56); the IDF launches a new operation in the West Bank (14:38); negotiations between the government and SDF continue in Syria (17:11); Turkey hints at a possible thaw with the Kurdish PKK (20:13); Afghan refugees who’d already been granted asylum are stranded after Trump’s executive order (24:54); China brokers a new ceasefire in Myanmar (27:49); M23 makes a new advance in the Democratic Republic of Congo (29:31); Trump threatens myriad economic penalties against Russia if it doesn’t end the war in Ukraine (31:42); NATO’s defense spending might be on the rise (34:19); Colombia breaks off peace talks with the ELN (37:48); Mexico and Honduras react to Trump’s deportation plans (40:10); Oxfam releases a new report on the rise in inequality (42:44); and Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders only a few days into taking office (44:44). Subscribe now at Supporting Cast! Be sure to listen to our post-election special with Alexander Aviña on Trump’s plans regarding immigrants and deportations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.4	in Comrade, Derek Davison, and we are excited to bring you the news in the new world order under
1:12.5	President Trump. So, Derek, let's get started. Let's talk about Gaza, and let's talk about the
1:19.3	ceasefire taking effect. How has that proceeded? It's, you know, we don't have to start with a,
1:26.5	I don't want to say it's a good thing because it's probably going to run
1:29.4	out soon, but at least it's not
1:30.8	as depressing as they've been doing.
1:33.5	Yeah, as usual, gossip will be a little nicer
1:35.5	weeks. We can at least say that the ceasefire
1:37.4	did come into effect
1:39.2	on Sunday.
1:41.3	It has held, there have been a couple
1:43.2	of instances since then of Israeli forces killing people
1:49.2	they claim to have been militants one Islamic jihad militant i think there was another incident
1:53.5	on thursday i haven't seen the details of but people who they claim were threatening the
1:59.0	Israeli forces that are now still stationed in Gaza.
2:02.6	But otherwise it's held. There are the daily airstrikes of stop.
2:06.6	People aren't dodging bombs and drones and dying by the hundreds every day, or dozens at least.
2:13.6	So yeah, it's okay. I mean, there was a delay on sunday i think because
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