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Alina Polyakova of Brookings joins the Bombshell crew to dive into the fallout from the Helsinki Summit.  Radha furthers our education on tariffs, er trade taxes, as the great trade war of 2018 slouches toward chaos. Meanwhile, Teresa May’s Brexit woes continue as she mucks around with Northern Ireland. And despite Secretary Pompeo’s personal attention, President Trump is catching on to the fact that Singapore did not set up the greatest of deals with North Korea. In White House mayhem Trump’s NSC is trying desperately to stay out of his line of sight as they manage crises he won’t like – like the reemergence of ISIS in Iraq. Plus, Supergirl and puppies, airplane movies, Bombshell books, early gray fudge, and rose all day.

• Helsinki Fallout
• Alina Polyakova and Benjamin Haddad, “Europe in the New Era of Great Power Competition,” Foreign Affairs
• Alina Polyakova, “Trump Has Trapped Himself Into Cracking Down on Russia,” Atlantic
• Alina Polyakova, “Putin didn’t have to push the Kremlin’s narrative. Trump did it for him.” Washington Post
• Julia Ioffe, “The surreal world,” Washington Post
• All the Tariffs
• Louis Nelson, Victoria Guida, Adam Behsudi, “Trump threatens tariffs on all $500 billion worth of Chinese imports,” Politico
• “The world trading system is under attack,” Economist
• Hersh Shefrin, “Playing Trade War Chicken,” Forbes
• Ana Swanson, “Republicans Bow to White House on Chinese Telecom Firm ZTE,” New York Times
• Merrit Kennedy, “In Face Of Protectionism, EU And Japan Sign Huge Open-Trade Deal,” NPR
• Raymond Colitt, Patrick Gillespie, Carolynn Look, “World Economic Leaders Condemn President Trump’s Twitter Trade Rants at G-20 Summit,” Time/Bloomberg
• Megan Cassella, “Trump’s new midterm threat: A trade war smacking voters,” Politico
• John Bowden, “Mnuchin: US open to removing Russian aluminum producer from sanctions list,” Hill
• Brexit
• “The Great British Venn Diagram,” QNTM
• Henry Farrell, “Theresa May’s Brexit speech may break the Northern Ireland peace process,” Washington Post
• “Brexit: May calls for EU to ‘evolve’ position on ‘unworkable’ backstop,” Irish Times
• North Korea
• John Hudson, Josh Dawsey, Carol D. Leonnig, “In private, Trump vents frustration over lack of progress on North Korea,” Washington Post
• Christopher Dickey, “Kim’s Still Got His Nukes, and Hasn’t Returned Our Heroes,” Daily Beast
• ISIS
• Liz Sly and Mustafa Salim, “ISIS is making a comeback in Iraq just months after Baghdad declared victory,” Washington Post
• Weekend Edition Saturday, “The Current State of ISIS,” NPR
• Louisa Loveluck, “Syrian army raises flag above city considered as birthplace of uprising against Assad,” Washington Post