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The Lawfare Podcast features discussions with experts, policymakers, and opinion leaders at the nexus of national security, law, and policy. On issues from foreign policy, homeland security, intelligence, and cybersecurity to governance and law, we have doubled down on seriousness at a time when others are running away from it. Visit us at www.lawfareblog.com.
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The Lawfare Podcast features discussions with experts, policymakers, and opinion leaders at the nexus of national security, law, and policy. On issues from foreign policy, homeland security, intelligence, and cybersecurity to governance and law, we have doubled down on seriousness at a time when others are running away from it. Visit us at www.lawfareblog.com.
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    The Wagner Group, Bakhmut, and a New Phase in the Ukraine War

    The Wagner Group, Bakhmut, and a New Phase in the Ukraine War

    The war in Ukraine is approaching a pivotal moment. Russia remains in control of the hotly contested city of Bakhmut. But the ruthlessly effective mercenary forces of the Wagner Group—the same group whose leader, Yevgeny Prighozin, has openly bickered with the regular Russian military and reportedly offered to trade Russian troop positions to Ukrainian intelligence—are withdrawing. Ukrainian forces, meanwhile, are preparing for a reported counteroffensive, even as unclaimed attacks are taking place across the border in Russia—including, most recently, on a civilian target in Moscow. 
    To discuss these developments, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with two reporters covering the conflict for the Washington Post: Intelligence and National Security Reporter Shane Harris and Ukraine Bureau Chief Isabelle Khurshudyan. They discussed the peculiar role played by the Wagner Group, recent revelations stemming from the Discord leaks, and what to expect from the conflict in the months to come. 
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    • 52 min
    Erdoğan Wins Reelection in Turkey

    Erdoğan Wins Reelection in Turkey

    On Sunday, May 28, Turkey held a bitterly contested run-off election, with incumbent presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdoğan winning reelection against opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. Lawfare Legal Fellow Saraphin Dhanani sat down with Soli Özel, Senior Lecturer at Kadir Has University in Istanbul and a columnist at Habertürk daily newspaper, to discuss what was at stake in this election and the future of Turkey as Erdoğan’s next five-year term marks his 25th year in higher office.
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    • 47 min
    Tim Mak on The Counteroffensive

    Tim Mak on The Counteroffensive

    Tim Mak was an NPR reporter in Kyiv since the beginning of the full-scale invasion last year. He recently stepped down and started his own Substack from the Ukrainian capital, called The Counteroffensive, and Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Tim to talk about the publication. What makes a reporter leave an established news organization like NPR to start a startup in a war zone? What is The Counteroffensive going to cover? How will it be different from other stuff you might be reading on the Ukraine war? And what are things like in Kyiv these days as the Ukrainians get ready for the counteroffensive for which the publication is named?
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    • 49 min
    Lawfare Archive: Shaun Walker on Russia's Long Hangover

    Lawfare Archive: Shaun Walker on Russia's Long Hangover

    From January 20, 2018: This week on the Lawfare Podcast, the Guardian's Moscow correspondent Shaun Walker joined special guest host Alina Polyakova to discuss his new book "The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past." They discussed Putin's use of Russian history as political strategy, the pulse of Russian politics as its elections approach in March, the changing landscape of Russia's lesser-known cities since the 1990s, and much more.
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    • 45 min
    Chatter: Popular Presidential Communication with Anne Pluta

    Chatter: Popular Presidential Communication with Anne Pluta

    From the birth of the republic, American presidents have communicated with the public in one form or another. The frequency and exact nature of such efforts have varied quite a bit over time due to variables ranging from the extent of partisanship in the media to each commander in chief's personal preference to travel technology. Political scientist Anne Pluta has explored this history deeply, including extensive analysis of contemporary newspaper accounts back to the late 18th century. And her insights, contained in writings like the book “Persuading the Public: The Evolution of Popular Presidential Communication from Washington to Trump,” provide plenty of surprises and even challenge some conventional wisdom about the presidency.
    David Priess chatted with her about her favorite presidents and her assessment of the best communicators among them; the precedents set by George Washington; Thomas Jefferson's State of the Union delivery method; changes in the communication environment during the Andrew Jackson era; Abraham Lincoln's exceptional presidency; the importance of train travel for presidential contact with the public; Rutherford Hayes's underappreciated importance in presidential communication; Theodore Roosevelt as a speaker; Woodrow Wilson's decision to deliver the State of the Union address in person; the importance for presidential communication of radio, television, and the availability of Air Force One; the relatively brief period of national, "objective" media; the late 20th century shift to splintered media; Donald Trump's social media use; Joe Biden's communication practices; and more.
    Among the works mentioned in this episode:
    The play HamiltonThe TV show John AdamsThe movie LincolnThe book Persuading the Public by Anne PlutaThe TV show The West WingThe TV show VeepThe movie The American PresidentThe movie Air Force OneThe movie Independence DayThe TV show ScandalThe book The Devil's TeethThe book Twelve Days of TerrorThe book The WaveChatter is a production of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo. This episode was produced and edited by Cara Shillenn of Goat Rodeo. Podcast theme by David Priess, featuring music created using Groovepad.
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    • 1 hr 11 min
    Lawfare Archive: Michelle Melton on Climate Change as a National Security Threat

    Lawfare Archive: Michelle Melton on Climate Change as a National Security Threat

    From April 16, 2019: Since November, Lawfare Contributor Michelle Melton has run a series on our website about Climate Change and National Security, examining the implication of the threat as well as U.S. and international responses to climate change. Melton is a student a Harvard Law school. Prior to that she was an associate fellow in the Energy and National Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where she focused on climate policy.
    She and Benjamin Wittes sat down last week to discuss the series. They talked about why we should think about climate change as a national security threat, the challenges of viewing climate change through this paradigm, the long-standing relationship between climate change and the U.S. national security apparatus, and how climate change may affect global migration.
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    • 45 min

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midwestBlue ,

5.12.23

Excellent show today! Per that facist italian facebook group that was removed from facebook. what they are saying & demanding isn’t even logical. they are using one side of their argument that a US company/facebook can’t impose IUS US standards on an Italian group chat because a US company has different standards than italian standards, basically they are saying you can’t judge us. then on the other hand it wants to flip their own argument for staying online/facebook to saying, oh yeah and btw, we insist you/facebbok allow our italian based chat group to be seen by US and the rest of the world, pretty much saying the US & the rest of the world standards be damned. Hey black shirts, you cannot have it both ways. blahhh

hang zuckerberg ,

A question

Why can’t texeira be court martialed

Hemet Hockey Gmom ,

Fabulous - except . . .

Informed discussion on relevant topics with enough background for those of us who aren’t paying a lot of attention when we should.
Except - growling and chewing words in the misguided practice of following Paris Hilton - whom I’ve been informed was the originator of talking with the sound of a three-pack-a-day smoker who’s over 40.
I’m hearing this confounding way of speaking in men as well as women.
It hurts the vocal cords of listeners and garbles speech so it’s difficult to even understand what’s being said.
I’m listening while pedaling my bike in traffic and even the audio playing through my 16 track hearing aids can’t make sense of words when they are garbled and the sound reduced at the end of sentences - where the important words are spoken.

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