logo
episode-header-image
May 2023
1h 20m

The War Goes to Russia

Crooked Media
About this episode
Tommy and Ben talk about President Zelensky’s travel to the Arab League and G7 summits, Biden’s policy change on training Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s, mysterious attacks inside Russia and outcomes from the G-7 summit. They also discuss the foreign policy fallout from Biden cutting his foreign trip short, how the Air Force failed to stop the Discord leaker, ... Show More
Up next
Sep 23
Xi’s Just Not That Into You
Xi Jinping comes to Washington, the UN struggles for relevancy, and the Russian parliamentary elections turn out exactly as expected.Tommy and Ben break down Chinese President Xi Jinping's first state visit to Washington since 2015, including Trump’s personal airport greeting, an ... Show More
1h 30m
Sep 16
Don Jr.’s Big Fat Russian Wedding
The Houthis seize control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Trump rolls a grenade into Northern Ireland's politics, and a Russian oligarch funds Don Jr.'s wedding.Tommy and Ben break down some of the most alarming expansions of the Iran war: Houthi rebels have captured roughly 80 mile ... Show More
1h 33m
Sep 9
Can Germany’s Far Right Be Stopped?
The far right gets a huge win in Germany, Serbia celebrates a war criminal, and Nigel Farage gets caught on camera breaking the law.Tommy and Ben dig into the ultra-right-wing AfD party's historic results in a regional election, what drove it, what it would mean if they actually ... Show More
1h 36m
Recommended Episodes
Feb 2022
"Putin Chooses War in Ukraine."
<p>Ben Rhodes joins to talk about Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as well as the response from the U.S. and the world. And later, Democratic strategist and pollster Celinda Lake joins to talk about the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s midterm manifesto, ... Show More
55m 24s
Mar 2025
Trump and Zelensky's Disastrous Meeting
In this Pod Save The World Special, Tommy and Ben discuss Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous meeting at the White House that erupted in a yelling match and resulted in Zelensky being told to leave. They dig into JD Vance’s role as instigator, the ... Show More
42m 38s
Feb 2025
CBS Evening News, 02/19/25
President Trump and Zelenskyy trade barbed comments following Trump's false claims that the war was started by Ukraine—what this means for US-Ukraine relations. We sit down with US.. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and what he says about the latest crash investigation and pl ... Show More
20m 20s
Feb 2025
'We Were Hanging Like Bats'
First, we bring you the latest on a plane that crashed and flipped upside down during landing. Then, senior US and Russian officials meet in Saudi Arabia about ending the war in Ukraine ... without Ukraine. Plus, President Trump has directed Elon Musk and the DOGE team to identif ... Show More
47m 49s
Mar 2025
Trump & Zelensky Hold Heated Oval Office Meeting
First: Zelensky joins a parade of European leaders at the White House this week, wheeling and dealing over the security of Ukraine and the whole continent. Then: With the future of the US-European alliance on the line, Britain’s former defense secretary, Ben Wallace, discusses w ... Show More
31m 13s
Jun 2024
Russia threatens to strike Nato trainers in Ukraine & understanding the Kremlin’s geopolitical strategy in Africa and Central Asia
Day 825.Today, we look at recent border trouble up in the baltics, discuss the impact of Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike Russian forces inside Russia, we analyse the Kremlin’s recent geopolitical moves in Africa and central asia and we’re on the ground in Singapore whe ... Show More
58m 50s
May 2023
Fly Like The G-7
On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy landed in Japan for the G7 summit, where he met with world leaders to continue lobbying for more military support for his country. And just hours after his arrival, Russian officials said troops had captured the eastern Ukraini ... Show More
19m 1s
Mar 2022
Interviews with: Amb. to NATO Julianne Smith, Sen. Jim Risch, Sen. Cory Booker, Chef José Andrés, Ukrainian Amb. to the U.S. Oksana Markarova, Sen. Mark Warner, Rep. Michael McCaul.
President Biden made international headlines this week when he went off-script during a speech in Poland, suggesting support for a regime change in Russia. Fresh off the NATO summit in Brussels, U.S. Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith joins to clarify Biden’s comments about Putin ... Show More
1h 29m