May 31, 2021
On COI #116, Kyle and Will cover a new round of US sanctions
imposed on officials in Ethiopia, where fighting with rebels has
killed thousands and displaced millions more in the country's
Tigray region. Cutting off foreign aid and slapping visa
restrictions on officials, Washington is pressuring the central
government to make efforts to end the fighting.
Legendary whistleblower and Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg
has disclosed yet another series of classified documents from a
1966 Rand Corporation study. The files reveal that, during a
round of fighting between China and Taiwan in 1958, the United
States came much closer to dropping nuclear weapons on China than
was previously known, with American military leaders pushing
aggressively for the authority to do so.
After updating the progress of talks to revive the Iran nuclear
deal, Will and Kyle also mark Memorial Day, discussing the ways our
soldiers are used up and discarded by the very leaders who
claim to champion them most.
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