Putin’s Wildest Dreams Come True

Pod Save the World

Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben discuss the seismic shift in US foreign policy that happened this past week after Trump announced that the US and Russia would directly negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine through talks that exclude Ukraine and Europe. They also explain how JD Vance’s first foreign trip insulted nearly every leader in Europe while boosting Germany’s far-right AfD party ahead of Germany’s election this Sunday, how support for a crypto scam has become a major political liability for the president of Argentina, the continued fallout from USAID cuts, the latest on the Gaza ceasefire, and intelligence leaks about a potential Israeli military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Then, Ben speaks to Max Seddon, Moscow Bureau Chief for the Financial Times, about how the flip flop in US foreign policy towards Russia is being greeted by the Kremlin.

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1:12.9	Welcome back to Pod Save the World. I'm Tommy Vitor.
1:27.3	I'm Ben Rhodes.
1:28.2	Ben, did you catch the USA Canada Four Nations hockey tournament?
1:34.4	I didn't. I heard many good things about it, and I heard we won.
1:40.7	The only thing that matters is there were three fights in the first nine seconds. Literally.
1:45.3	Well, I mean, there's a lot of, you know, pent up tariff, frustration.
1:48.7	Yeah, there's all the conflict, all the Trump Trudeau conflict was spilling out onto the ice.
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