What Really Matters

Podcast w/ @wrmead & @JeremySternLA |

News, history, takes you can steal |

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[What Really Matters @WRMpod]

RT @JeremySternLA: New episode of What Really Matters w/ @wrmead

We discuss Trump's take-it-or-leave-it Ukraine deal, why he walked back…

[Jeremy Stern @colossusjeremy]

New episode of What Really Matters w/ @wrmead

We discuss the U.S. cutting off intelligence sharing with Ukraine, trimming down the State Department, TSMC's $100 billion investment in Arizona, and Trump's on again, off again tariffs and trade wars.

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[Jeremy Stern @colossusjeremy]

New episode of What Really Matters w/ @wrmead

We talk the US-Ukraine mineral deal, the rise of Christian faith among American youth, Germany's election results, and why Trump's Russia policy is also Obama, Merkel, and Biden's, only with a chance for success.

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[Jeremy Stern @colossusjeremy]

New episode of What Really Matters w/ @wrmead⚡️

This week we talk the White House scrapping environmental regulations, the Trump-Modi bromance, the New York Times' AI future, and the end of the Western alliance as we knew it.

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[Jeremy Stern @colossusjeremy]

New episode of What Really Matters w/ @wrmead

We talk the FBI's Kennedy assassination files, a constitutional crisis manqué, antisemitism among the young, and how Trump is hoisting China on its own green petard.

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[Jeremy Stern @colossusjeremy]

What Really Matters w/ @wrmead is back!🎙️

Today we talk Donald Trump's plans for Gaza, fumigating the CIA, the problems of the NGO complex, and the controversy around USAID.

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[Tablet Magazine @tabletmag]

Our deputy editor @JeremySternLA talking on @jockowillink podcast about what differentiates right-wing antisemitism from the woke-obsessed Jew hatred on the left.

[Vladislav Davidzon @VladDavidzon]

I adore the Walter and @JeremySternLA show and listen to every episode and hope that it goes on forever. It’s simply the best foreign policy podcast in existence

[Tablet Magazine @tabletmag]

The Syrian Quagmire: Walter and Jeremy discuss the prospects for a Trump-brokered cease-fire in Ukraine, South Korea’s martial law scare, the fall of the French government, and what the latest developments in Syria tell us about Israel, Russia, and America
https://t.co/AQqk3PXs6x

[Tablet Magazine @tabletmag]

Walter Russell Mead on similarities between Davey Crockett—who paid for voters' drinks with beaver pelts—and Donald Trump:

"It is not a bunch of platonic philosopher kings debating 'the issues.' Mass politics in our country is a very different thing than this somewhat attenuated elite spectacle where everything is driven by proprieties and so on. And you could say that's some sort of an advance over the old dirty mobs and riots and bought votes and outrageous courthouse thefts of votes which are, believe me, some of the most common and widespread things in the United States—north south east and west.

Human nature has not changed that much since Davey Crockett was slapping pelts down on the bar in Tennessee. So this sort of elite college boy spectacle of bloodless debates and so on, occasionally interrupted by the dreadful WIllie Horton ad that everyone tsk tsks, that is not our normal thing. So in some ways, Trump's style of politics is reviving politics, mass politics, politics that are directed at emotions rather than reason....it's more human. It might not be better, but that's a different question."

[Walter Russell Mead @wrmead]

My latest essay at Tablet on America's leadership crisis:
https://t.co/mlRoToPtCP

[Tablet Magazine @tabletmag]

This week, on @WRMpod, @wrmead & @JeremySternLA, discuss voter stratification by education & gender, America’s failing China strategy, Biden’s ‘garbage’ gaffe, how the US got itself into a leadership crisis & predictions for election day. https://t.co/O3qSexN4KZ

[Tablet Magazine @tabletmag]

Would Kamala have any idea what to do if Russia launches a successful winter offensive, asks @wrmead on @WRMpod https://t.co/wzJslfLypv

[Tablet Magazine @tabletmag]

New episode of @WRMpod🎙️

@wrmead and @JeremySternLA discuss the killing of Sinwar, how AI is fueling demand for nuclear energy, why the media is the least trusted institution in America, and how the CCP got caught in a trap of its own making.

https://t.co/YksNENEW81

[Tablet Magazine @tabletmag]

New episode of @WRMpod🎙️

@wrmead and @JeremySternLA discuss White House frustration with Israeli war plans, a new Republican advantage in party ID, whether the Middle East matters in Michigan, and how October 7th changed the world.

https://t.co/YksNENEW81

[Tablet Magazine @tabletmag]

New episode of @WRMpod🎙️

@wrmead and @JeremySternLA talk Zelensky’s visit to DC, why Gen Z men are more religious than the women, how US airstrikes are helping the Houthis, and what Joe Biden still doesn’t understand about diplomacy.

https://t.co/YksNENEW81

[Tablet Magazine @tabletmag]

New episode of @WRMpod🎙️

@wrmead and @JeremySternLA discuss exploding Hezbollah pagers, the Fed’s interest rate cut, Gavin Newsom vs. AI, and how America may be sleepwalking into World War III.

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[Tablet Magazine @tabletmag]

New episode of @WRMpod🎙️

@wrmead and @JeremySternLA discuss the Harris-Trump debate, Iran selling ballistic missiles to Russia, Europe’s never-ending decline, and how Sept. 11 continues to shape American and world history.

https://t.co/YksNENFtXz

[What Really Matters @WRMpod]

@EyeClimbIce Fixed!

[Tablet Magazine @tabletmag]

New episode of @WRMpod🎙️

@wrmead and @JeremySternLA talk Biden blocking the sale of US Steel, Chinese spies in New York State, and the larger meaning of Tucker Carlson’s embrace of crank historical revisionism.

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