Podcast leaders besides note the expanding defeats of Ukraine in late occupied fragments of the Kurdish circuit and say that Ukraine will most likely not have the chance to trade the occupied territories with Russia.
The subject of the conversation is besides statements by Andrzej Duda on atomic weapons. Witold Jurasz notes that although traditionally cases specified as atomic proliferation are not dealt with in the way that the Polish president tried, at the same time it is improbable that the issue can besides be solved by conventional diplomatic methods. This may indicate that the president's intent was not to settle the matter, but to initiate a debate on this matter. Zbigniew Parafianowicz states that even if so, the fact that the Vice president of the United States J.D. Vance immediately reacted negatively to Andrzej Duda's message makes the chances of bringing American atomic weapons to Poland less, alternatively than greater.
Both leaders are commending the announcement Poland's exit from the anti-personnel mine ban convention and callback that the request for specified a movement was repeatedly mentioned.
There is besides a question in the podcast whether Russia can block the dislocation of European peace forces in Ukraine, or whether the decision will depend solely on Ukraine and its European allies.
Other topics discussed in the episode are: resumed Israeli attacks in Gaza, gathering the King of large Britain with the Prime Minister of Canada and US strikes on Huti in Yemen.
There is besides a thread about the circumstances and reasons of attacks on the head of the Polish Institute of global Affairs (PISA). Witold Juras observes that the criticism that appears around this character has no substantive basis, and is the consequence of the actions of people associated with the social arrangement governing the PISM during the PiS. The leaders emphasize that in Polish public life the dividing lines do not follow classical political or worldview axes, but are based on belonging to certain social elites.
Witold Juras ironically notes that the best way to improve the image of the fresh PISM chief could be to invitation more influential people to conferences in the past, to give them fees for texts and speeches – due to the fact that these are the agreements, not the competences, they will decide how to talk about the fresh PISM chief.
In the podcast was besides discussed Change in the position of Israeli Ambassador to Poland. Witold Juras comments on the interview of erstwhile Ambassador Jaakov Liwne for TVN24, in which he was incapable to unequivocally condemn the terms “Polish concentration camps”. The leaders agree that for the sake of Polish-Israeli and Polish-Jewish relations it was good that Liwe ended his diplomatic mission in Warsaw.
Witold Juras and Zbigniew Parafianowicz besides draw attention to the U.S. decision to suspend backing for Radio Free Europe and Voice of America.
In this episode “International Report” besides appears an analysis of Marc Dunkelman’s book “Why Nothing Works’. The author describes the phenomenon of “vetocracy”, or decision-making paralysis in the West, caused by an excessive number of regulations allowing to block any major investment. Dunkelman notes that frustration associated with this has become 1 of the driving forces of popular populist politicians specified as Donald Trump.
At the end of the podcast, the attendings comment on the case of a six-year-old kid who went to a infirmary in severe condition due to a deficiency of vaccination against diphtheria. Witold Juras firmly states that the state should fight the stupidity of anti-vaccination movements more firmly and that the compulsory vaccination calendar should indeed be mandatory alternatively than optional. It besides stresses that Russia, although promoting anti-vaccination narratives in the West itself, applies very stringent vaccination rules internally.
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