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Eric and Eliot react to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s second-ever “State of the Force” address at Marine Corps Base Quantico today


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Plus updates on the Iran war, Denmark’s dire warning, and more!
1:15: Jackassery of the Week
10:06: The Decline of the U.N.
7:13: Iran War Updates
40:57: Powder Keg: Horn of Africa
47:39: The Russian Threat to Europe
Danish Defense Intelligence Service Assessment of the threat from Russia:https://www.fe-ddis.dk/globalassets/fe/dokumenter/2026/trusselsvurderinger/-assessment-of-the-threat-from-russia-.pdf
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Plus the Houthis dig in, German elections disappoint again, and more!
1:53: Jackassery of the Week
12:56: Trump at the U.N.
22:06: Houthi Offensive Update
30:00: More Troubling German Elections
37:49: Trump-Zelensky Meeting
42:25: A Greenland Resolution
45:52: Xi Comes to Town
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Plus updates from the Middle East & Ukraine, and special guest Will Hitchcock!
2:27: Jackassery of the Week
16:30: Houthi Offensive
36:30: Iranian Leadership Divisions
42:38: UK Sanctions on Israel
56:59: Ukraine War Update
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1:03:49: Will Hitchcock joins the show
1:12:48: The Interwar Period
1:16:39: Flirting with Fascism
1:27:45: Roosevelt’s Process
1:40:40: The Specter of WWI
Available today! A Shadow Over the World: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Rise of Fascism, and the Making of America’s World War II https://a.co/d/04rQQOF6
Eliot’s Hot Take on the Saudi pipeline strikes
Eric’s Hot Take on Saudi Arabia’s next moves
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Plus trips to Moscow, elections in Germany, and more.
1:10 Jackassery of the Week
19:48 Remembering 9/11
45:11 To Russia With Love
54:18 AfD Election Implications
1:01:15 AI Alarm Bells
1:04:25 Iran War Update
Former Senior Officials Ask Secretary Wright to Release Saudi Nuclear Deal Documents
Eric’s Hot Take on our dangerously incompetent Secretary of Defense


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