It's like the media saying kissinger was a "controversial figure". No, he was a non convicted war criminal. Because of his actions, millions died and countries were destroyed or changed radically (and not for the better). Good riddance and burn in hell!
I have a Henry Kissinger story. Years ago, I worked in communications for Heinz Pet Products, and 9-Lives was one of our brands. Morris the Cat was representing us at a fancy shindig in New York City, and Kissinger tried to pet Morris, who bit him. I felt well represented in that moment. RIP, Morris, and good riddance, Henry.
Hmm. I have 9 cats, 3 mini donkeys, chickens and 18 horses on the farm. Animals are more knowing than we give credit! Thanks for sharing. Morris must have been a character.
My mom was a Dr with Doctors Without Borders. After my stepdad did a stint in South Sudan, my mom took her turn there, had to stay longer than originally agreed upon (her relief suffered a personal crisis), and it seems to have really messed her up. She doesn’t show it, but she stopped traveling to Uganda regularly or being active with a nonprofit she set up there. This was about 3 years ago, I think. She’s been through a lot and seen a lot (also a Dr on-duty when VA Tech massacre happened; needed therapy after that one), but Sudan was too much.
"If you gave the man an enema he could be buried in a matchbox." - Christopher Hitchens on Jerry Falwell's death but I think it applies to Kissinger as well.
Ben: Stand that ground, it is really not possible to be too hard on Kissinger. You're such an incredible thinker and writer, and you owe zero attenuation of your work.
Most people I know ( European people who studied) would agree with Ben's assessment of Kissinger's lethal hypocrisy. The " brilliance"is, however,questionable since he could not learn from his grave mistakes and therefore discredited the West and enlightenment,Kant,humanism which was further dragged through the mud by Guantanamo, waterboarding etc. Similarly,I appreciate the point of view of the senator from Vermont in the interview, makes sense not to bomb the hell out of Gaza unless you want to steal the land and the oil and gas reserves offshore that belong to Palestine ( see official estimates 2019) that nobody is talking about. Thankyou guys for your work, we appreciate it
I don't know if I shared on the other podcast, but the Daily Show's G. O. A. T. war criminal debate of Kissinger v Cheney is hilarious, and from sports focused guys ought to be appreciated.
UA-cam doesn't like my comment about Kissinger - what can I say, the guy was bad news and we're better off without him. Let's see if that gets through.
is anyone else not deeply concerned about UN secretary general triggering Article 99! why arent more people worried!?!? also deeply concerned about the comments from lyod Austin, why arent media outlets and people taking more notice of that??? 1.9 Million people displaced with no where to go, limited food, water and shelter. This is the barbaric IRL version of survivor... at least survivor was a choice.... for Palestinians there is no choice.
@@brijmsnI believe that was the point he was making. It was often joked that Betty would outlive us all, and she definitely outlived most of (if not all) her contemporaries.
"Live by the sword, die by the sword." It's the same reason why church kids turn out to be utter devils. Nobody is surprised if the child of a lawyer grows up to be evil, but if a pastor's child grows up to be evil, then that's news. Similarly, we expect evil people to have their comeuppance quick, in the vein of Gaddafi or Osama Bin Laden, and so we are surprised when they don't.
40:25 I'm skeptical that the US can make a convincing moral argument for the UAE to stop weapons sales. As to why they're doing it: they're making money. You can't possibly argue that the Emiratis "have enough money" and "will be okay" and should therefore stop selling weapons when the US, the richest, most powerful country in the world, is also the largest arms dealer. Or I guess I should say that any argument you make for the Emiratis to stop selling weapons goes double for the US, and you don't see us stopping.
lol @ you mentioning the US and moral argument in the same sentence. We’re the country that has funded terrorists, supported apartheid, funded genocide, and couped countless countries.
Bratislava is amazing! My friend lives there and owns a bar, and I just went and visited him. It's a small city comparatively to some other in Europe, but it has such a weirdly strong connection to a lot of the world's current geo-socio-political issues. Everyone should visit if they can.
The argument that he 'did some good things' somehow has to be presented in contrast to the bad things presupposes that someone not psychotically murderous would have done a worse job.
35:00 A country whose commonly abbreviated name has three letters and starts with U, has been meddling in a civil war and selling arms to participants who are committing terrible acts. The country already has a lot of money and influence yet it still quite unreasonably wants more. This is such a common story. However the difference here is the final two initials of the country's name.
Considering our lobbying laws, bribery is basically legal. I'm sure a lot of politicians get on a slippery slope of providing more and more favors into classified info. Take Menendezs first legal case like 7 years ago, when scotus said bribery was OK, as long as it was implicit, not explicit
Yeah, I can't fault the Cubans for however they try to steal information from us. I kind of have that feeling about spying in general, honestly - we're doing it, they're doing it, we know they're doing it, they know we're doing it, and it's all kind of fair game until someone starts hurting civilians.
"a pretty dark set of circumstances" like, after what you both just described its insane to use those words. I'm not even a lefty anymore, I'm a 31 year old trying to understand things but the way you guys use language to describe what is happening is so bizarrely euphemistic and cold and clinical that I just can't even listen anymore. It's like if Orwell had a wet dream and his fluids wrote a podcast.
I’ll say it then: we give almost $4 billion every year to Israel while they regularly commit war crimes, carry out an ethnic cleansing, and dismantle their democracy. We never threaten to take that money away or use it to pressure them into doing things differently even though we are one of the few countries in a position to do so because American evangelical christians have successfully high jacked the conversation so that any criticism of an aspiring dictator (Bibi) and his open genocide of the Palestinian people is now considered antisemitic. Thankfully this is _starting_ to not be the case as much as it was even 5 years ago but people are dying right now and we are still talking about the “shift” in the rhetoric from “hug Bibi” to _slightly_ critical of the slaughtering of civilians. 🫠 Good luck to you in your quest for understanding just beware that it’s not the super complex ancient religious fight some people want it to be. Those people just want an excuse to not pay attention.
In response to some of the interview, is it a negotiating tactic, internally for our government stance or externally as a message to Israel, to call for a full ceasefire? I feel like I’ve not heard people in government calling for more nuanced policy changes. During the interview Peter Welch mentions he doesn’t support the bombing campaign and mentions restrictions he’d like to see on weapons supply. Why wouldn’t he be calling maybe for something more nuanced/plausible like a halt to all bombing campaigns? Or is that even less plausible from an Israeli perspective?
Please don't apologize for criticizing Kissinger. According to specialist Gabriel Defert on the basis of statistical data available from the Portuguese and Indonesian authorities, and from the Catholic Church, between December 1975 and December 1981, approximately 308,000 Timorese lost their lives; this constituted about 44% of the pre-invasion population. Thank you for calling that a genocide. Not everyone does.
BEN RHODES - please discuss the new, populist, pro-Russian in Slovakia. Any insights during your trip to Bratislava? (Bratislava is beautiful, much more than eastern Slovakia where i lived/worked for 5 months. This pro-russian shift doesn't surprise me)
All things considered, how does IDF propose to maintain their full mobilization for multi-months, or God forbid, years? The Israeli commitment of reserves in 1973 was a severe shock to their economy. This could be much worse.
"Activists in the UN" lol. What activists? People that are all tied to Israel or the gov? Come on. Let's not turn that into another Nayirah thing. Just saying. Also what about all the problems the IDF has just with their own male soldiers attacking/etc. their own female soldiers and almost every time getting away with it. Or what they do to Palestinian prisoners. 😬😬😬
... and yet, each generation continues to believe in the moral superiority of their own position. At what point do we actually learn the lesson... We are all capable of committing atrocities (given the right circumstance). This self-knowledge is how we learn to see the humanity in others. It is how we become truly compassionate. RIP Henry Kissinger.
Netanyahu- cream rises but crap floats. He’s definitely the latter . That said the president of Penn. State should have known better … context dependent situation. Crap does float .
It might be good to add more shows to Pod Save the World than just this and UK. There are more countries in the world than the UK, after all. I think that this channel could really blossom if it has more series like the UK for other places in the world, such as France, Germany, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Costa Rica, or really just anywhere you can manage to set it up.
Just looked this man up because I had no idea who he was and found out that while I was chilling in my home on my side of the state he died only 2 hours away from me LMAO
16:00 - On 26 March 2015, Saudi Arabia, leading a coalition of 9 countries from W-Asia & N-Africa, launched an intervention in Yemen following Yemeni president's request. Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, president from 2012 to 2022 asked S-A for military support after his forces were ousted from the capitol & largest city in Yemen, Sana, in September of 2014 by Iranian-backed Houthi insurgents who acted militarily after a draft constitution & power-sharing arrangement collapsed.
It would be great if, when you have an interview with guests like Sen. Welch, you’d include in the shops notes specific, clear ways listeners could support their efforts.
Hamas using sexual violence is horrible but you need to also mention IDF using sexual violence. Victims of both situations deserve justice. One sided reporting doesnt suit you guys.
Agreed, but these guys are not solely responsible for that one-sided misinformation campaign. The bigger problem is that the standard media that most people see is kissing Israel's ass at every turn.
re: Kissinger...he told people in power what they wanted to hear. He was mercurial in that way. He also had the unfortunate luck of being recorded in the Whitehouse. Oval taping stopped after Nixon. So those Kennedy and Nixon years have an especially lasting legacy. Hard to imagine that his successors didn't advise the very same kind of brutality that Kissinger advised, but no more taping in the oval. I think Tommy nails it when he says that personal power was his primary objective. He achieved it by ingratiating himself with leadership. Flattery will get you everywhere, and Henry seemed great at it. But the sober reality is this: have we learned anything from his life? When I observe the current trends in national security and international affairs, I think not.
From the beginning I have felt that Bush knew something was going to happen. Clearly there was intelligence that wasn't integrated by intlligence agencies, but I think Bush got a heads up from Iraqui friends.
Please don’t copy the giggly late night show style of pod save the Uk, their format is terrible. I like Nish as a comedian but neither presenter has anything to contribute apart from “ hihi aren’t politicians stupid”.
Peter Welch is not a serious person. He acknowledges that he has seen first-hand the atrocities that Hamas "gleefully" (his words, not mine) committed almost exclusively against Israeli civilians - most of whom were peace activists - then immediately says Israel must unilaterally cease hostilities by drawing a false equivalency to Gaza by saying that any civilians killed are unacceptable as collateral damage in war and that "15,000 civilians" have been killed in Gaza so far. To begin with his (rather stretched) analogy about the Empire State building: that implies a civilian to combatant death ratio of several thousand to one, when even by the worst estimates it's currently 2:1 (which I agree, is still too many). More to the point is his claim of "15,000 civilians" killed - 15,000 (the number provided at the time of recording) is a number which he quotes without challenging at all directly from the Hamas Ministry of Health, and is the TOTAL number of ALL people who have been killed in Gaza since October 8. I.e. it makes absolutely no distinction between armed combatants and civilians, nor does it distinguish between casualties of IDF fire and casualties of failed Palestinian rocket launches, which are estimated to comprise 10-20% of all rocket launches (like the one at al-Ahli Hospital, which the Hamas MoH still maintains at the original ~500, and still lists as an IDF "massacre"). Every civilian killed in Gaza is a tragedy of epic proportions that needs to be memorialized prevented from happening again, but they are overwhelmingly a population whom Hamas explicitly builds there infrastructure within and underneath, taunting the world that they can commit the worst crimes against humanity with impunity any time they like, again and again, increasing in brutality and horror each time, and Israel just has to let it's people be slaughtered like lambs and ripped from their homes to be used as human chattel and traded like bottle caps in exchange for more convicted Hamas murderers. Hamas thinks of Palestinian civilians as little more than human Kevlar to be squeezed of all their hope and means to make a living, completely expended and thrown at a crowded bus-stop in Tel Aviv like a Molotov cocktail - Hamas, who told the Washington Post last month that they are "a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs” on the altar of eternal jihad. Their words, not mine. Civilians on Israel are not collateral damage, they are the bullseye of the target. Hamas did not spring into existence on October 7, nor in 2007 either. They have been responsible for nearly ever suicide bombing and other civilian mass casualty incident in Israel since the First Initfada. Peter Welch calling for an unconditional (and unilateral) ceasefire legitimizes what happened, and guarantees its recurrence. Bernie understands this, and is why he has repeatedly refused to call for a ceasefire. There is a difference between acknowledging that Bibi has gone too far and needs to scale back, and figuratively throwing the confetti at Yahya Sinwar's victory parade.
The war had already been expanded into Cambodia by the North Vietnamese routinely violating Cambodian neutrality when moving troops and weapons into South Vietnam.
@@Marshall_Stacks do you know my qualifications? I'm just as qualified as these political hacks defending kissinger, which is a disqualifying offense if you ask anyone from Cambodia Laos or Vietnam.
As of late Oct / early Nov, according to the AWRAD polls more Palestinians (35%) believed that the Oct 7 attack was about (imagined) attacks on Al Aqsa than about any possible meaning of "freeing" Palestine (33%), even settlements or the security situation in the West Bank. Both were trailed by breaking the blockade of Gaza (21%) and distantly about various larger regional interests (6% total). 75% of respondents approved (16%) or strongly approved (59%) of the Oct 7 attacks. So, sure, encourage Israel to reign in settlers or even bombs. But so what? The Palestinians already hate Jews, they've been killing Jews over blood libel about Al Aqsa since 1920, and they approve of horrific means to do so. They don't blame Hamas for this war and they think they're going to win. Sure, you make peace with your enemies, but you have to have something to make peace about. America didn't offer terms to Japan, and should not have. You say "Israel has the right to defend itself" like some sort of charm, but never make it clear what you mean by that. What do you mean by it? Negotiate with people who violate ceasefires and, out of sincere religious belief, don't accept your right to exist?
You guys know way more about Urban Warfare than many of your listeners! You know that Urban Warfare that will be performed with surgical precision will mean way more casualties for IDF soldiers. Asking them to sacrifice hundreds or thousands of Israeli soldiers when Gaza civilians are fully supporting Hamas and October 7 massacre, is a bit awkward to say the least 😕
You wrote, "Gaza civilians are fully supporting Hamas and October 7 massacre". There is no way of knowing whether the majority currently support Hamas or not. Besides children don't understand politics but Israel is currently killing thousands of them anyway. This is mostly a slaughter of innocents.
@@dianahoward9738 that’s what you’ve been told. Israeli people live right next to them, they know who supports whom. And the way Media portrays them is deceiving. They were absolutely ecstatic about the massacre. If that is not support, what is! For a change, would like to hear anyone talking about what Hamas does to their citizens! Using them like that. But nobody does. Oh well… bombing it is 🤷🏻♀️
@@rhythmelia it’s war. Their lives are not worth any more than the lives of any other Muslims around the world. But they are the ONLY one that get the attention. Nobody else matters. 230,224 civilians, including 30,007 children were killed in Syria war. Did anyone say anything? And that kind of collective disregard for human lives doesn’t sicken you for some reason. It only matters when Israel is doing it. When it’s fellow Muslims slaughtering their own, it okay?!
@@HistoryTeacherSteve That every one and their grandma has put out content about Kissinger several days ago. Many had pre-recorded videos that they where ready to drop on day 1.
Its a weekly podcast. his death has no impact on current world events. it did not merit a special piece. Its worthy of comment because some try to lionize his crimes, but did not require a special breaking news piece.
he wasn't a "complicated" guy, he was a war criminal. RIPBOZO
It's like the media saying kissinger was a "controversial figure".
No, he was a non convicted war criminal. Because of his actions, millions died and countries were destroyed or changed radically (and not for the better).
Good riddance and burn in hell!
Imagine saying out loud that Henry kissinger is your mentor. Wow.
I was driving and just had to mouth "what the entire fuck are you trying to express with that phrasing, wow"
Polarizing ? Everyone knows that dude committed war crimes and acts of murder on a scale that cost millions of lives
No, Kissinger didn't do that. The USA did that.
@@6sfo Equivocate!
@@catherinebirch8263 That notion does not exonerate the monster.
@@Marshall_Stacks I couldn't agree more. I'm saying that blaming Kissinger doesn't exonerate the US government.
I have a Henry Kissinger story. Years ago, I worked in communications for Heinz Pet Products, and 9-Lives was one of our brands. Morris the Cat was representing us at a fancy shindig in New York City, and Kissinger tried to pet Morris, who bit him. I felt well represented in that moment. RIP, Morris, and good riddance, Henry.
Hmm. I have 9 cats, 3 mini donkeys, chickens and 18 horses on the farm. Animals are more knowing than we give credit! Thanks for sharing. Morris must have been a character.
LOL
Good cat, Morris!
Rip based morris
My mom was a Dr with Doctors Without Borders. After my stepdad did a stint in South Sudan, my mom took her turn there, had to stay longer than originally agreed upon (her relief suffered a personal crisis), and it seems to have really messed her up. She doesn’t show it, but she stopped traveling to Uganda regularly or being active with a nonprofit she set up there. This was about 3 years ago, I think. She’s been through a lot and seen a lot (also a Dr on-duty when VA Tech massacre happened; needed therapy after that one), but Sudan was too much.
That’s heartbreaking. ❤️
"Entrap people in different ways..." Did Ben just admit that Cuban intelligence tried to honeypot him? 🤣
Lo que pasa en La Habana, se queda en La Habana.
World: "Kissinger is dead."
Dorothy Parker: "How can you tell?"
Would love more Pod Save the World and Save the UK crossover episodes!
"If you gave the man an enema he could be buried in a matchbox." - Christopher Hitchens on Jerry Falwell's death but I think it applies to Kissinger as well.
Ben: Stand that ground, it is really not possible to be too hard on Kissinger. You're such an incredible thinker and writer, and you owe zero attenuation of your work.
Most people I know ( European people who studied) would agree with Ben's assessment of Kissinger's lethal hypocrisy. The " brilliance"is, however,questionable since he could not learn from his grave mistakes and therefore discredited the West and enlightenment,Kant,humanism which was further dragged through the mud by Guantanamo, waterboarding etc.
Similarly,I appreciate the point of view of the senator from Vermont in the interview, makes sense not to bomb the hell out of Gaza unless you want to steal the land and the oil and gas reserves offshore that belong to Palestine ( see official estimates 2019) that nobody is talking about.
Thankyou guys for your work, we appreciate it
Kissinger legacy? Secretary of Death, Destruction and Indifference
I don't know if I shared on the other podcast, but the Daily Show's G. O. A. T. war criminal debate of Kissinger v Cheney is hilarious, and from sports focused guys ought to be appreciated.
The Senator was a great guest and I liked the way he explained the things.
UA-cam doesn't like my comment about Kissinger - what can I say, the guy was bad news and we're better off without him. Let's see if that gets through.
is anyone else not deeply concerned about UN secretary general triggering Article 99! why arent more people worried!?!? also deeply concerned about the comments from lyod Austin, why arent media outlets and people taking more notice of that??? 1.9 Million people displaced with no where to go, limited food, water and shelter. This is the barbaric IRL version of survivor... at least survivor was a choice.... for Palestinians there is no choice.
Why do evil people live the longest?
You're giving me bad vibes about Betty White now. I'm terrified what we're going to find out about her...
@@mygenericusername Didn't she die?
@@brijmsnI believe that was the point he was making. It was often joked that Betty would outlive us all, and she definitely outlived most of (if not all) her contemporaries.
The complete and utter lack of a conscience keeps things like regrets from eating away at you.
"Live by the sword, die by the sword."
It's the same reason why church kids turn out to be utter devils. Nobody is surprised if the child of a lawyer grows up to be evil, but if a pastor's child grows up to be evil, then that's news. Similarly, we expect evil people to have their comeuppance quick, in the vein of Gaddafi or Osama Bin Laden, and so we are surprised when they don't.
40:25 I'm skeptical that the US can make a convincing moral argument for the UAE to stop weapons sales. As to why they're doing it: they're making money. You can't possibly argue that the Emiratis "have enough money" and "will be okay" and should therefore stop selling weapons when the US, the richest, most powerful country in the world, is also the largest arms dealer. Or I guess I should say that any argument you make for the Emiratis to stop selling weapons goes double for the US, and you don't see us stopping.
lol @ you mentioning the US and moral argument in the same sentence. We’re the country that has funded terrorists, supported apartheid, funded genocide, and couped countless countries.
Bratislava is amazing! My friend lives there and owns a bar, and I just went and visited him. It's a small city comparatively to some other in Europe, but it has such a weirdly strong connection to a lot of the world's current geo-socio-political issues. Everyone should visit if they can.
It's a shit hole.
The argument that he 'did some good things' somehow has to be presented in contrast to the bad things presupposes that someone not psychotically murderous would have done a worse job.
35:00 A country whose commonly abbreviated name has three letters and starts with U, has been meddling in a civil war and selling arms to participants who are committing terrible acts. The country already has a lot of money and influence yet it still quite unreasonably wants more.
This is such a common story. However the difference here is the final two initials of the country's name.
Considering our lobbying laws, bribery is basically legal. I'm sure a lot of politicians get on a slippery slope of providing more and more favors into classified info. Take Menendezs first legal case like 7 years ago, when scotus said bribery was OK, as long as it was implicit, not explicit
We the american people stand with Palestine.
You keep calling it a war when only one side has bomb tonage and jets etc the other side is pretty primitive
It’s hard to get mad that the Cuban spy considering how absolutely evil our policy towards Cuba has been basically since the beginning.
Yeah, I can't fault the Cubans for however they try to steal information from us. I kind of have that feeling about spying in general, honestly - we're doing it, they're doing it, we know they're doing it, they know we're doing it, and it's all kind of fair game until someone starts hurting civilians.
The most steadfast of American values, they kicked out our businessmen when Castro took over, the oligarchs will never forget.
"a pretty dark set of circumstances" like, after what you both just described its insane to use those words. I'm not even a lefty anymore, I'm a 31 year old trying to understand things but the way you guys use language to describe what is happening is so bizarrely euphemistic and cold and clinical that I just can't even listen anymore. It's like if Orwell had a wet dream and his fluids wrote a podcast.
I’ll say it then: we give almost $4 billion every year to Israel while they regularly commit war crimes, carry out an ethnic cleansing, and dismantle their democracy. We never threaten to take that money away or use it to pressure them into doing things differently even though we are one of the few countries in a position to do so because American evangelical christians have successfully high jacked the conversation so that any criticism of an aspiring dictator (Bibi) and his open genocide of the Palestinian people is now considered antisemitic. Thankfully this is _starting_ to not be the case as much as it was even 5 years ago but people are dying right now and we are still talking about the “shift” in the rhetoric from “hug Bibi” to _slightly_ critical of the slaughtering of civilians. 🫠
Good luck to you in your quest for understanding just beware that it’s not the super complex ancient religious fight some people want it to be. Those people just want an excuse to not pay attention.
A political true crime podcast sounds great! Ditto that Ben.
30:58 - A man running the committee to find the non-fossil fuel solutions has no idea how to do the work
In response to some of the interview, is it a negotiating tactic, internally for our government stance or externally as a message to Israel, to call for a full ceasefire?
I feel like I’ve not heard people in government calling for more nuanced policy changes. During the interview Peter Welch mentions he doesn’t support the bombing campaign and mentions restrictions he’d like to see on weapons supply. Why wouldn’t he be calling maybe for something more nuanced/plausible like a halt to all bombing campaigns?
Or is that even less plausible from an Israeli perspective?
Thanks for the Peter Welch interview. We need more of this kind of thinking.
Please don't apologize for criticizing Kissinger. According to specialist Gabriel Defert on the basis of statistical data available from the Portuguese and Indonesian authorities, and from the Catholic Church, between December 1975 and December 1981, approximately 308,000 Timorese lost their lives; this constituted about 44% of the pre-invasion population. Thank you for calling that a genocide. Not everyone does.
BEN RHODES - please discuss the new, populist, pro-Russian in Slovakia. Any insights during your trip to Bratislava? (Bratislava is beautiful, much more than eastern Slovakia where i lived/worked for 5 months. This pro-russian shift doesn't surprise me)
Now Henry knows what napalm feels like.
All things considered, how does IDF propose to maintain their full mobilization for multi-months, or God forbid, years? The Israeli commitment of reserves in 1973 was a severe shock to their economy. This could be much worse.
"Activists in the UN" lol. What activists? People that are all tied to Israel or the gov? Come on. Let's not turn that into another Nayirah thing. Just saying.
Also what about all the problems the IDF has just with their own male soldiers attacking/etc. their own female soldiers and almost every time getting away with it. Or what they do to Palestinian prisoners. 😬😬😬
... and yet, each generation continues to believe in the moral superiority of their own position.
At what point do we actually learn the lesson...
We are all capable of committing atrocities (given the right circumstance).
This self-knowledge is how we learn to see the humanity in others.
It is how we become truly compassionate.
RIP Henry Kissinger.
Netanyahu- cream rises but crap floats. He’s definitely the latter . That said the president of Penn. State should have known better … context dependent situation. Crap does float .
It might be good to add more shows to Pod Save the World than just this and UK. There are more countries in the world than the UK, after all. I think that this channel could really blossom if it has more series like the UK for other places in the world, such as France, Germany, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Costa Rica, or really just anywhere you can manage to set it up.
I would love a weekly show devoted to Europe.
I’d love a pod save the eu, if we can’t get a pod save Germany
Just looked this man up because I had no idea who he was and found out that while I was chilling in my home on my side of the state he died only 2 hours away from me LMAO
I just wish Christopher Hitchens had lived this long.
Show the man who lives in a desert how oil production can hurt the environment.
I'm excited to see Ben on Pod Save the UK!
16:00 - On 26 March 2015, Saudi Arabia, leading a coalition of 9 countries from W-Asia & N-Africa, launched an intervention in Yemen following Yemeni president's request. Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, president from 2012 to 2022 asked S-A for military support after his forces were ousted from the capitol & largest city in Yemen, Sana, in September of 2014 by Iranian-backed Houthi insurgents who acted militarily after a draft constitution & power-sharing arrangement collapsed.
he is reincarnated as nikki haley
Kissinger's Ghost 'flew' into Nikki Haley's Body?
If you're serious about being a travel writer, Ben, please come to Edinburgh--it's in the top 3 of 'Best places to live' in the world.
It would be great if, when you have an interview with guests like Sen. Welch, you’d include in the shops notes specific, clear ways listeners could support their efforts.
34:33 -
Excellent interview. When did I become such a world'o? 🤔 Snuck up on me.
What it means - the Biden administration is hearing it from voters and doners .
Biden did give Bibi a warning.
Ben, I have to disagree. You're memoire was in no way too long and thank you for writing it.
Doing his own Eurotrip. Hope Bratislave finally got a train station!
So were the gold bars stolen - or was he lying to the police?
Hamas using sexual violence is horrible but you need to also mention IDF using sexual violence. Victims of both situations deserve justice. One sided reporting doesnt suit you guys.
Agreed, but these guys are not solely responsible for that one-sided misinformation campaign. The bigger problem is that the standard media that most people see is kissing Israel's ass at every turn.
15:29 - Since OCT 7 , 2023
re: Kissinger...he told people in power what they wanted to hear. He was mercurial in that way. He also had the unfortunate luck of being recorded in the Whitehouse. Oval taping stopped after Nixon. So those Kennedy and Nixon years have an especially lasting legacy. Hard to imagine that his successors didn't advise the very same kind of brutality that Kissinger advised, but no more taping in the oval.
I think Tommy nails it when he says that personal power was his primary objective. He achieved it by ingratiating himself with leadership. Flattery will get you everywhere, and Henry seemed great at it.
But the sober reality is this: have we learned anything from his life? When I observe the current trends in national security and international affairs, I think not.
Apologist!
Thank you Senator
But if they
Why gold bars?
Balls so sweaty 😅
From the beginning I have felt that Bush knew something was going to happen. Clearly there was intelligence that wasn't integrated by intlligence agencies, but I think Bush got a heads up from Iraqui friends.
Saudi friends, more likely.
Please don’t copy the giggly late night show style of pod save the Uk, their format is terrible. I like Nish as a comedian but neither presenter has anything to contribute apart from “ hihi aren’t politicians stupid”.
Cool story, but that show is actually very good. Sorry, Bro.
Peter Welch is not a serious person. He acknowledges that he has seen first-hand the atrocities that Hamas "gleefully" (his words, not mine) committed almost exclusively against Israeli civilians - most of whom were peace activists - then immediately says Israel must unilaterally cease hostilities by drawing a false equivalency to Gaza by saying that any civilians killed are unacceptable as collateral damage in war and that "15,000 civilians" have been killed in Gaza so far.
To begin with his (rather stretched) analogy about the Empire State building: that implies a civilian to combatant death ratio of several thousand to one, when even by the worst estimates it's currently 2:1 (which I agree, is still too many).
More to the point is his claim of "15,000 civilians" killed - 15,000 (the number provided at the time of recording) is a number which he quotes without challenging at all directly from the Hamas Ministry of Health, and is the TOTAL number of ALL people who have been killed in Gaza since October 8. I.e. it makes absolutely no distinction between armed combatants and civilians, nor does it distinguish between casualties of IDF fire and casualties of failed Palestinian rocket launches, which are estimated to comprise 10-20% of all rocket launches (like the one at al-Ahli Hospital, which the Hamas MoH still maintains at the original ~500, and still lists as an IDF "massacre").
Every civilian killed in Gaza is a tragedy of epic proportions that needs to be memorialized prevented from happening again, but they are overwhelmingly a population whom Hamas explicitly builds there infrastructure within and underneath, taunting the world that they can commit the worst crimes against humanity with impunity any time they like, again and again, increasing in brutality and horror each time, and Israel just has to let it's people be slaughtered like lambs and ripped from their homes to be used as human chattel and traded like bottle caps in exchange for more convicted Hamas murderers.
Hamas thinks of Palestinian civilians as little more than human Kevlar to be squeezed of all their hope and means to make a living, completely expended and thrown at a crowded bus-stop in Tel Aviv like a Molotov cocktail - Hamas, who told the Washington Post last month that they are "a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs” on the altar of eternal jihad. Their words, not mine.
Civilians on Israel are not collateral damage, they are the bullseye of the target. Hamas did not spring into existence on October 7, nor in 2007 either. They have been responsible for nearly ever suicide bombing and other civilian mass casualty incident in Israel since the First Initfada.
Peter Welch calling for an unconditional (and unilateral) ceasefire legitimizes what happened, and guarantees its recurrence.
Bernie understands this, and is why he has repeatedly refused to call for a ceasefire. There is a difference between acknowledging that Bibi has gone too far and needs to scale back, and figuratively throwing the confetti at Yahya Sinwar's victory parade.
The war had already been expanded into Cambodia by the North Vietnamese routinely violating Cambodian neutrality when moving troops and weapons into South Vietnam.
What's Kissingers legacy? Ask a Cambodian/Laotian/Vietnamese individual, not an Obama employee.
Calm down, hater. You are not qualified to comment.
@@Marshall_Stacks do you know my qualifications? I'm just as qualified as these political hacks defending kissinger, which is a disqualifying offense if you ask anyone from Cambodia Laos or Vietnam.
Please do a crime podcast on politics in general 🤘🏽💥
totally agree with your thesis on Kissinger!
Well, with our shameful veto ag the UN I am now firmly in the "Biden must go" csmp.
Hang on. Keep a cool head, unless you're a troll. I am also disgusted by this, but trump is a worse outcome. Get real.
As of late Oct / early Nov, according to the AWRAD polls more Palestinians (35%) believed that the Oct 7 attack was about (imagined) attacks on Al Aqsa than about any possible meaning of "freeing" Palestine (33%), even settlements or the security situation in the West Bank. Both were trailed by breaking the blockade of Gaza (21%) and distantly about various larger regional interests (6% total).
75% of respondents approved (16%) or strongly approved (59%) of the Oct 7 attacks.
So, sure, encourage Israel to reign in settlers or even bombs. But so what? The Palestinians already hate Jews, they've been killing Jews over blood libel about Al Aqsa since 1920, and they approve of horrific means to do so. They don't blame Hamas for this war and they think they're going to win.
Sure, you make peace with your enemies, but you have to have something to make peace about. America didn't offer terms to Japan, and should not have. You say "Israel has the right to defend itself" like some sort of charm, but never make it clear what you mean by that. What do you mean by it? Negotiate with people who violate ceasefires and, out of sincere religious belief, don't accept your right to exist?
You guys know way more about Urban Warfare than many of your listeners! You know that Urban Warfare that will be performed with surgical precision will mean way more casualties for IDF soldiers. Asking them to sacrifice hundreds or thousands of Israeli soldiers when Gaza civilians are fully supporting Hamas and October 7 massacre, is a bit awkward to say the least 😕
You wrote, "Gaza civilians are fully supporting Hamas and October 7 massacre". There is no way of knowing whether the majority currently support Hamas or not. Besides children don't understand politics but Israel is currently killing thousands of them anyway. This is mostly a slaughter of innocents.
the Palestinian civilians aren't supporting hamas- they have no say in anything. they're being used
@@dianahoward9738 that’s what you’ve been told. Israeli people live right next to them, they know who supports whom. And the way Media portrays them is deceiving. They were absolutely ecstatic about the massacre. If that is not support, what is! For a change, would like to hear anyone talking about what Hamas does to their citizens! Using them like that. But nobody does. Oh well… bombing it is 🤷🏻♀️
Your callous disregard of these people's lives is frankly sickening
@@rhythmelia it’s war. Their lives are not worth any more than the lives of any other Muslims around the world. But they are the ONLY one that get the attention. Nobody else matters. 230,224 civilians, including 30,007 children were killed in Syria war. Did anyone say anything? And that kind of collective disregard for human lives doesn’t sicken you for some reason. It only matters when Israel is doing it. When it’s fellow Muslims slaughtering their own, it okay?!
He died a week ago. A bit late to the party mmkaay?
I’ve been waiting most of my adult life for this Monster to croak. I’m still dancing on his grave
What even is your point
@@HistoryTeacherSteve That every one and their grandma has put out content about Kissinger several days ago. Many had pre-recorded videos that they where ready to drop on day 1.
@@dribrom uh huh, and?
Its a weekly podcast. his death has no impact on current world events. it did not merit a special piece.
Its worthy of comment because some try to lionize his crimes, but did not require a special breaking news piece.