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In a call with European foreign ministers on Thursday, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said he would begin steps to restore the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that was abandoned by the Trump administration. Today’s guest, Tom Josclelyn, thinks a series of upfront concessions to Tehran before the country’s leaders even come to the negotiating table would be an unwise foreign policy move for the Biden administration. “I’ve taken to calling it ‘servile diplomacy’ because it is very much from a submissive position,”Joscelyn tells Sarah and Steve. Tune in to hear our hosts’ take on China’s ongoing genocide against the Uighurs in Xinjiang, and the latest rocket attack on a U.S. airbase in Iraq.
Show Notes:
-“Biden Administration Formally Offers to Restart Nuclear Talks With Iran” by Lara Jakes, Michael Crowley, David E. Sanger and Farnaz Fassihi in the New York Times.
-“Biden dismisses Uighur genocide as part of China’s ‘different norms’” by Emily Jacobs in the New York Post.
-“‘Genocide’ is the wrong word for the horrors of Xinjiang” by the Economist.
-Tom Joscelyn’s Vital Interests newsletter.
I don't know what you're paying Tom Josclelyn but it's not enough.
Ok so Thomas just wants a coherent strategy for the Middle East. If we are going to pull out, just pull out if you are saying so. If you are staying with minimal presence, then justify your position for being there. Got it.
China, and the communist party in particular, is grade A evil. No longer communist, it has morphed into a fascist leadership that takes all it can from the free market, spreads actual Asian supremacy in the ethnic Han culture, imposes its Eastern Imperialism not just in the Pacific, but around the world through trade in Africa, the Middle East, and the Caribbean, and is a genocidal regime.
If there was ever a time to acknowledge the second Cold War we are in, it’s now. And the current administration, needs to both in rhetoric and action, come down hard on foreign policy for this.
And we are fighting this Cold War, while being 28 trillion in debt.
Finally, omg why on earth is Sarah, Thomas, and Steve all injury buddies? It’s like they all stepped on a bomb and blew out their knees together.
Like omg Sarah your injury what on earth....
Thanks for the podcast!