The Good Fight Club: Gaza Ceasefire, U.S. Government Shutdown, and America’s Slouch Towards Autocracy

First of all, so anything Trump does, you know, has only two criteria. So it's money and glory, personally, nothing else. Glorification, monetization. Every decision, whether it's tariffs, whether it's Middle East peace, whether it's shutdown. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

Well, it has been uh really eventful news in the world. with some glimmers of hope in the Middle East and also a lot of warring developments in the United States and elsewhere. This week we talk about the peace deal and have some contrasting opinions about how to interpret the last two years of war and conflict in the Middle East. We talk about a topic that somehow is not as central to our conversations in the last few weeks as similar events have been in the past, the government shutdown, and how it is going to play out politically and whether it might eventually end.

And finally, we turn to our international guests to ask, have they already seen the movie that's playing out in the United States in Spanish in Venezuela or in Russian in the Soviet Union? Because we have some great great guests today, Ras Murhat, Kiko Toro and Gary Kasparov. I am leaving this episode of The Good Fight Club fully available to people like you who have not yet become paying subscribers. But if you want to support what we do, if you want to make sure that you don't miss any parts of these really fun weekly panels about the news,

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