Bombshell: Only Mostly Dead
This week on Bombshell, Radha, Erin, and Loren play natsec madlibs with Amanda Sloat, discussing every possible complexity of US-Syria policy during John Bolton’s first week. The neverending potential for a trade war, protests in the run up to the US embassy in Israel’s moving day, and Russian expulsions get a lightning round in Keeping Up Foreign Relations. And for White House mayhem they stick to the other side of the river, checking in on the disturbing trend of aviation mishaps, the anniversary of combat integration of women, and sending troops to the border. And you should all be watching Killing Eve.
- Amanda Sloat, “Trump’s Syria whiplash,” Brookings
- Amanda Sloat, “The West’s Turkey conundrum,” Brookings
- BBC, “Syria: The story of the conflict,” BBC
- Morning Edition, “Analysis Of U.S.-Led Airstrikes On Syria After Suspected Chemical Attack,” NPR
- Nancy Marshall-Genzer, Jed Kim, Renata Sago, Marielle Segarra, Danielle Chiriguayo, Jana Kasperkevic, Aaron Schrank, “Your trade war questions, answered,” Marketplace
- Alex Capri, “Trump’s ‘Trade War’ Irony: America Loses By Not Rejoining The TPP,” Forbes
- Zeeshan Aleem, “Trump wasted his chance to make the TPP stronger,” Vox
- Keith Bradsher, “Trump Weighs Return to Trans-Pacific Partnership. Not So Fast, Say Members.” New York Times
- Rushdi Abu Alouf and Noga Tarnopolsky, “Nearly 1,000 Palestinians injured in Gaza-Israel border protests,” Los Angeles Times
- Ilan Goldenberg, “How Trump can move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem,” Politico
- Greg Jaffe, John Hudson, and Philip Rucker, “Trump, a reluctant hawk, has battled his top aides on Russia and lost,” Washington Post
- Katie Rogers and Eileen Sullivan, “Trump and Western Allies Expel Scores of Russians in Sweeping Rebuke Over U.K. Poisoning,” New York Times
- Tara Copp, “Military Times Crash Database,” Military Times
- Tara Copp, “Navy’s spike in aviation mishaps is the military’s worst, up 82 percent,” Military Times
- Doug Mataconis, “Federal Judge Blocks New Version Of Trump’s Transgender Military Ban,” Outside the Beltway
- Elliot Spagat and Luis Alonso Lugo, “US says California rejects proposed border duties for troops,” AP
- Lindsay P. Cohn, on Twitter
- “Update on the Status of Women in Combat,” CNAS
- Jen Chaney, “BBC America’s Killing Eve Is Instantly Addictive Television,” Vulture
