South Korean President Declares Martial Law

Pod Save the World

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Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Tommy and Ben discuss President Yoon Suk Yeol’s sudden declaration of martial law in South Korea, how Trump and his team will approach the Syrian civil war, and why Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, is so dangerous. They also talk about Trump’s nepotism hires, more troubling news reports about Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, Trump’s threats to levy tariffs on BRICS countries, UNRWA closing a crucial aid route into Gaza due to looting, a former Israeli defense minister’s declaration that Israeli is engaging in ethnic cleansing, protests in Georgia, and elections in Romania and Ireland. Finally, Tommy speaks with Natasha Hall, Senior Fellow in the Middle East Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, to unpack what’s happening in Syria, who all the players are, and how we got here.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Potsave the World.
0:11.8	I'm Tommy Vitor.
0:12.6	I'm Ben Rhodes.
0:13.8	Wow, man.
0:14.3	A lot going on today.
0:15.5	Quite a day.
0:16.5	Quite a day in the WorldO portfolio.
0:18.8	This is one of those weeks where we could have done two episodes probably.
0:21.1	This might be what the next four years are like.
0:24.4	Let's just acknowledge that reality.
0:27.4	Yeah, a lot of geopolitical events are shifting.
0:30.4	A lot of tectonic plates moving underneath the surface.
0:33.4	Yeah.
0:34.0	Well, we're going to start with the president of South Korea declaring martial law.
0:38.3	There's that.
0:38.9	That's something that happened today.
0:40.1	That happened today. Wild story. Then we're going to talk about the events in Syria over the past week where you've seen the opposition take back territory on, you know, battle lines that really haven't moved significantly in four years. Yeah, yeah. If not longer. The past is, you know, battle lines that really haven't moved significantly in four years, if not longer.
0:56.9	The past is, you know, back to the future here.
0:59.3	Yeah, exactly.
0:59.9	And we'll talk about what it means for the incoming Trump team and how they might handle it,
1:04.1	given their past statements about Syria.
1:06.2	Then we're going to talk about a bunch of Trump personnel news, including an excellent nominee
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