News - US-Ukraine Tension, RSF Attempts to Form Government in Sudan, Trump Proposes Defense Budget Cuts

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Danny and Derek are back with the news, but without much of a choice. This week: the US and Russia meet in Riyadh to discuss future bilateral discussions to end the war in Ukraine (0:38); Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump feud in public comments (3:38); The Daily Telegraph reports on a US mineral rights deal that Zelenskyy rejected (8:22); in Israel-Palestine news, Saturday’s hostage exchange was successful (12:55) and Hamas offers an expedited hostage release schedule (15:08); Israel decides to ignore the withdrawal deadline in Lebanon (19:32); the US State Department decides to change the wording on a fact sheet about Taiwan and China responds negatively (22:03); in South Korea, former president Yoon goes on trial (24:48); the RSF militia in Sudan attempts to form a government and controversy ensues (26:40); in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, M23 (supported by Rwanda) takes Bukavu while continuing to advance north and south (31:16); Argentinian president Milei is accused of a rug pull after the cryptocurrency he endorsed collapses (33:40); and in the United States, Trump and Musk fire National Nuclear Security Administration workers without understanding what their jobs meant (35:40), and Trump proposes cutting the defense budget (39:15). Subscribe now for much more content and an ad-free experience! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to American Prestige. To listen ad-free, you can subscribe at Americanprostagepod.com. Find the link in our show notes.
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0:35.4	Head to vanta.com slash Spotify to learn more. Hello, Prestige heads and welcome to American Prestige. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade, Derek Davidson, and we are excited to bring you the news. But before we do, please check out
1:11.3	our YouTube station. Please join our Discord. And to do that, you've got to subscribe. So please
1:17.5	subscribe. Derek, let's just get right into it. And let's talk about this US-Russia meeting in
1:23.6	Riyadh. As had been expected, a team of U.S. and Russian negotiators led respectively by Marco Rubio,
1:31.3	the Secretary of State, and Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, met in Saudi Arabia
1:35.3	on Tuesday, supposedly to lay the groundwork for ending the war in Ukraine.
1:41.3	Ukraine was not invited to the meeting. I'm sorry, I just find that morbidly
1:46.5	hilarious. I don't know how much progress they actually made on this. This was a headline
1:51.4	item on the agenda was to get the ball rolling on Ukrainian peace talks. All it seems that they
1:58.2	agreed to do was to appoint other teams, more technical teams, but high level, supposedly, to begin the process of actually negotiating a peace deal.
2:10.9	It's unclear when that appointment process is supposed to take place or when it's supposed to be over or when the actual peace talks
2:18.8	are supposed to happen. So this was really more an agreement in principle to begin negotiations
2:24.4	rather than any substantive negotiation. Substantatively, they did agree on normalizing
2:31.8	U.S. and Russian diplomatic relations,
2:34.2	which have not, they have afraid completely,
2:36.9	they still have, you know, still have respective ambassadors
2:38.6	in each other's countries.
2:40.3	But since the Russian invasion in 2022,
2:43.7	they've been subject to a series of restrictions
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