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The DSR Network
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The DSR NetworkIf We Could Spend All the Money in the World on Defense Would We?
With great fanfare Donald Trump did the presidential equivalent of stuffing a pair of athletic socks down his pants and announced the new defense spending…
The DSR NetworkThe Highly Classified Reasons Too Many Things are Highly Classified
Nothing is more core to the life of the Deep State than marking documents classified. After all, if just anyone could read them, who'd want to? On the other…
The DSR NetworkWhich Books You Should Own & Never Read, Which You Should Read & Which to Skip Altogether
Summer Reading Edition: On this special episode of a podcast so special it doesn't need special episodes but can't help doing them anyway, we delve into the…
The DSR NetworkEd Luce Defends Cricket...and Trump Admits Treason: What a Summer!
Did you know that Ed Luce was once on a cricket team that Imran Khan occasionally would coach during breaks in his high profile high society dating life? That…
The DSR NetworkAttack of the Killer Zucchinis
In which we start with cricket get to Imram Khan, discuss how hunky he was as a young cricketer and how his populism and the nukes he now controls may make him…
The DSR NetworkWhat Would Scipio Africanus Think?
In the latest Deep State Radio our friends Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University, Kori Schake of IISS and Evelyn Farkas of the Atlantic Council offer secrets…
The DSR NetworkBut Her Emails...
If only someone had told us that Trump has distrusted alliances and the international order his whole life, that he was close to Russia and Russians, that he…
The DSR NetworkBeware the Man with a Cheeseburger in the Pocket of HIs Bathrobe
A lonely old man wandering the White House late at night in his bathrobe, perhaps with a half-eaten McDonald's cheeseburger in his pocket gets angry at the…
The DSR NetworkWhat are We Going to Tell Our Grandchildren?
As Richard Nixon might have said, "What are we going to do when we don't have Western Civilization to kick around any more?" Things happen fast in this bad old…
The DSR NetworkPutting the Hell Back in Helsinki
Donald Trump completed the most unsuccessful foreign trip of any president since Theodore Roosevelt, who took the first foreign trip, with a disastrous summit…
The DSR NetworkNATO, SCHMATO...Bring on Vlad!
If, as Sarah Huckabee Sanders alleged, it was a lousy breakfast that had White House Chief of Staff squirm while President Donald Trump kicked off the NATO…
The DSR NetworkGiant Inflatable Baby Trumps for Everybody!!
With America's foreign policy savant, our president leaving the country this week it's easy to understand the fireworks and celebrations last week. Now we get…
The DSR NetworkHave a Drink. Now Have Another. Now Let's Consider the World After More Years of Trump.
The GOP could win in November and maintain its hold on both houses of Congress. Which Donald Trump would find encouraging. And might lead him to be even more…
The DSR NetworkHappy 50th Birthday NPT, You Look Like Crap.
50 years ago the multilateral agreement that kept us all from blowing ourselves to smithereens was signed. And look, we're not smithereens, so that's good…
The DSR NetworkWhy is Big Brother Smiling?
At the end of the Cold War, the West triumphantly crowed that it was our open societies and the information revolution that ultimately defeated the USSR. They…
The DSR NetworkThe Perfect Weapon
On this special episode of Deep State Radio we get a sneak peak at the latest work of our own David Sanger (who we share with the New York Times and his…
The DSR NetworkIf It's Not Treason Then What Is It?
As Deep State Radio's resident Constitutional scholar (and Associate Dean of Georgetown Law School) Rosa Brooks explains, the legal threshold for designating…
The DSR NetworkFascist, Neo-Fascist, or Quasi-Fascist: What's the Polite Way to Refer to America's President?
Deep State Radio's own Kori Schake wrote an important piece about the current threat to the international order posed by the Trump Administration. In this…
The DSR NetworkIF YOUR HAIR IS NOT ON FIRE, YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION
The president salutes a North Korean general while praising that countries murderous leader. Babies are torn from their mother's breasts by our border police…
The DSR NetworkIs America No Longer the Good Guy?
The U.S. has done plenty wrong in its history. There are millions around the world that have been victims of flaws in U.S. foreign policy. But since the early…
The DSR NetworkAn Idiot, A Russian Spy and a Racist Walk Into a Bar...
The recent round of primary elections in the US don't seem to show a groundswell of public indignation over the fact that the president of the United States…
The DSR NetworkEpisode 100!!!: Welcome to the Pax Trumpiana--How's That Working for You?
On this, the historic, 100th episode of Deep State Radio (once called by Bridget Jones "the world's most important podcast") our usual band of troublemakers…
The DSR NetworkHow Do You Milk a Cockroach?
Yes, this episode is about the rise of China and America's woeful unpreparedness for this epoch making event. But when guest Anna Fifield, Tokyo Bureau Chief…
The DSR NetworkOn Again, Off Again, On Again!--The Course of Nuke Love Never Did Run Smooth
Their courtship will go down in history with those of Romeo & Juliet, Tristan & Isolde, and Goldman and Sachs. Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un have had their…
The DSR NetworkWhy is a Hippo the Emotional Support Animal We All Need
The president's wife carries industrial strength disinfecting wipes wherever she goes because her man is a germaphobe. But when it comes to the growing ebola…
The DSR NetworkUnicorns, Rainbows...and Mushroom Clouds: Team Trump's Foreign Policy Wish List
One thing about the tough guys in the Trump Administration, when it comes to foreign policy they sure do have colorful fantasies. Mike Pompeo's wish list for…
The DSR NetworkWhy Does a Tour of the Horizon These Days Feel So Much Like We're Circling a Drain?
So much for the Nobel Peace Prize. So much for the celebration in Jerusalem. So much for teaching those Iranians a lesson. So much for witch hunts. So much for…
The DSR NetworkDonald Trump Doubles Down on Foreign Policy: What Could Go Wrong?
With boatloads of trouble at home and a Congress unlikely to actually do anything between now and the election, Donald Trump needs to come up with some way to…
The DSR NetworkTrue Dat: In the Post-Truth World of Trump the Best Liar Seems Like the Most Honest Man
The president lies. He lies all the time. He can't help but lie. That's why his lawyers consider any move by Robert Mueller to be a perjury trap for Trump…
The DSR NetworkIf Only We Can Guess the Name, Maybe We Can Break the Spell: Is it...Trumplestiltskin?
It's a mad whirl these days with more mad than whirl going on. This week alone offers everything from the Iran deal (the one new NRA president Ollie North did…
The DSR NetworkACRONYMGASM: DOTMLPF-P, JCPOA, NPT PREPCOMS, MILFS, LBJ, IRT, THE YOUTH OF AMERICA ON L-S-D
How are we supposed to concentrate on nuclear weapons dramas in the Middle East and the Koreas, new U.S. special forces deployments, Bibi Netanyahu doing his…
The DSR NetworkThere is a Game of 3D Chess Going On--The Question is Can Any World Leaders Actually Play?
Move are afoot--everywhere. In the Koreas, North and South are posturing pre-negotiations while back in the U.S. the president is writing his Nobel Prize…
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A EURONERD FEAST
Not since Chevy Chase's European Vacation has an American brought so much mayhem to U.S. Trans-Atlantic Relations. Perhaps new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo…
The DSR NetworkHe's a Nixer, Not a Fixer
With John Bolton loose in the West Wing, what will happen to US foreign policy? Deep State Radio's Rosa Brooks hosts in David Rothkopf's absence, joined by…
The DSR NetworkThe "Stormy" Kim Illusion
When Donald Trump thinks about Kim Jong Un he sees Stormy Daniels. At least he sees what he saw that night long ago with Ms. Daniels, which is something that…
The DSR NetworkTrump's Got 99 Problems But Too Much Respect for the Law Ain't One of Them...
The Syria strike was likely highly ineffective due to the fact that it was limited in impact, came without a long-term strategy or much likelihood of follow-up…
The DSR NetworkA Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Small Hands
Every day in Trumpassic Era seems like a million years in geological time. Sex scandals, echoes of old pee tapes, pending missile strikes in search of a…
The DSR NetworkThe Steering Wheel Doesn’t Connect to the Engine
John Bolton’s first day as National Security Advisor presents him with the kind of opportunities he has waited his entire life for—a choice between worsening…
The DSR NetworkThe World After Trump
The day after Trump leaves office some things will change immediately (like a terrible management style or diplomacy via Twitter or bad relations with Mexico)…
The DSR NetworkVladimir Putin, You Win a Brand New Car!
Perhaps its his fear of an impending Oprah candidacy but Donald Trump seems to be embracing her tactic of great generosity to her audience. In his case, it is…
The DSR NetworkThe Acela of Evil: The Train to Denuclearization of the Koreas Runs Through Beijing, Apparently
It looks like the Trump-Kim Summit is a thing. A real thing. That’ll likely happen this Spring. At least, all indicators were pointing in that direction…
The DSR NetworkSpecial Emergency DSR: John Bolton Becomes National Security Advisor
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The DSR NetworkWhy Vladimir Putin is the Hottest Politician in the World Right Now
He doesn't love democracy. He is aging. He, frankly, doesn't run with a very nice crowd. Oh, and there are all those invasions and murders and all that spying…
The DSR NetworkWhat's Worse Than a Constitutional Crisis?
A recent article in the Atlantic echoed a discussion we had not too long on Deep State Radio about whether or not we are in a "constitutional crisis." The…
The DSR NetworkDoes Objective Truth Still Exist...and if it Does Can the G.O.P Survive?
With so much focus on scandal, corruption, nuclear war, racism, isolationism, protectionism, and nationalism in the era of Trump, we sometimes lose site of the…
The DSR NetworkSpecial Emergency Edition: Rex Was a Craptastic Secretary of State & We'll Miss Him
Every feel like you're living inside a washing machine in the middle of the spin cycle? We hope it's not because you have a Tide pod in your mouth. Instead, if…
The DSR NetworkIn Improv (and Nuclear Negotiations), the Secret is to Always Say "Yes"
It's an old rule of improv comedy that you have to play along with the premise you are presented with. It's a rule apparently that the old show biz wannabe who…
The DSR NetworkThat'll Be Spaghetti Putin-esca From Now On...
Russia scored its biggest recent victory in its on-going war against western democracies with the victories of the right wing in the recent Italian election…
The DSR NetworkAn Embarrassment of Embarrassments
What's more screwed up in the White House--personnel or policy? There's virtually no senior advisor to the President who hasn't left or been rumored to be on…
The DSR NetworkThe Road Not Taken
Max Boot's great new book "The Road Not Taken" about American intelligence officer Edward Lansdale not only offers great insights into an intriguing character…
The DSR NetworkThis Country Was Built on Laundered Money
It is impossible to prove that Trump role model Tony Montana was actually speaking about former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort when he said, "this…
The DSR NetworkA Crisis of Character
America's problems extend far beyond Russiagate. In fact, they extend far beyond porn stars and having half the cabinet under investigation, failures in Puerto…
The DSR NetworkYou Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!
The Mueller indictment charging 13 Russians for their efforts to illegally influence America's 2016 presidential election rocked Washington and sent shockwaves…
The DSR NetworkOlympic Update: What’s More Boring—Curling or Mike Pence?
America has an unrealistic Korea policy (denuclearization) that it is not really pursuing that hard (what with not having an ambassador to South Korea, gutting…
The DSR NetworkNo Kittens Were Harmed In the Making of this Episode
We’ve had nuclear weapons for more than 70 years. But we have never had a president quite as deranged as Donald Trump before and the result has made more…
The DSR NetworkOlympic Torches are Fine As Long as You Keep Them Away from Fuses
The Olympics in Korea have prompted a temporary thaw in North-South relations on the Korean peninsula and plenty of political theater including some from the…
The DSR NetworkDevin Nunes is the Head of an Intelligence Committee. Isn't That Something?
There's intelligence and then there's basic common sense. Much of the discussion about the recent memo the House released has been lacking in both…
The DSR NetworkAnd the Winner of Deep State Radio’s Dunce Cap of Ignominy is…
There were so many candidates. And Ed Luce of the Financial Times, Kori Schake of IISS and Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University are keenly aware of some of the…
The DSR NetworkThe Doomsday Clock has Been Moved to 2 Minutes Closer to Trumpocalypse
Calm down. We don’t mean “Trumpocalypse” as in the end of the world. We mean it in the sense of the end of the Trump presidency. Who knows, with some luck this…
The DSR NetworkArmageddon One of Those Silos Just As Soon As I Can
Contrary to what those outside the Deep State may think, the U.S. government has recently undergone an explosion of creativity. Recently we have seen a…