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America & Europe are divorcing. What the heck is going on and what comes next? American-raised Euros, one an ex-President, the other a comedian, are here to help. #TheContinentalRift a weekly podcast with @IlvesToomas & @AndyValvur
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President @IlvesToomas and @andyvalvur, on this week's Continental Rift:
Greenland isn't for sale, but it just signed a security deal with the US that has no end date. Two Russian billionaires came off the EU sanctions list.
Everything has a price. Who's paying?
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Full episode: piped.video/watch?v=MTr-rYFt…
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President @IlvesToomas and @andyvalvur on why trade deals actually fail:
Not politics; instead things like beef standards, phytosanitary controls, & steel tariffs going from 6% to 4.3%. Canada exports no beef to the EU at all, because its producers use hormones banned by the EU.
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President @IlvesToomas and @andyvalvur on the Lindsey Graham Act.
Sold as tariffs on Russia. What it actually does is hand the President discretion to tariff almost anyone.
Passed the House 16 September. Not signed at the time of recording.
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Here’s the full episode for your viewing pleasure (also available on all podcast platforms if audio is your thing) piped.video/WreHwoLoqOU?si=mMak…
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President @IlvesToomas and @andyvalvur on the State of the Union.
She named Russia. She named China.
"But whenever the problem was America, the speech suddenly became a murder mystery in which everyone knows the killer."
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Here’s the full episode (also available on all other platforms) piped.video/WreHwoLoqOU?si=mMak…
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President @IlvesToomas and @andyvalvur on AI regulation: The companies building the most powerful AI systems in the world are now asking governments to slow them down. More on the full ep of this week's Continental Rift
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President @IlvesToomas and @andyvalvur on the EU's offer to Canada
Meanwhile, Whitehall watches the former colony get in tight with the people it has spent years bashing. All on thi week's Contineteal Rift podcast / youtube show
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President @IlvesToomas and @andyvalvur on the week since we last recorded...
🧨 A train derailed in Normandy. A drone hit a train at the Polish border. A frigate fired flares at a Danish helicopter. NATO shot a drone down over Lithuania. At what point does "hybrid" just mean war?
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President @IlvesToomas & @andyvalvur on this week's Continental Rift: von der Leyen proposed a Security Council (doesn't exist yet), Canadian associate membership (doesn't exist at all), and told Big Tech: we make the rules. So all is well? Subscribe wherever you enjoy pods.
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Full episode (Spotify): open.spotify.com/episode/0m9…
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President @ilvestoomas & @andyvalvur on this week's Continetal Rift: hybrid war, not traditional tanks and bombs. instead drone strikes and sabotage. Does hybrid war = war? Rate! Review! Follow!
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President @Ilvestoomas & @andyvalvur on The Continental Rift: Big EU countries assumed they'd always lead. On. Everything. Then EU's cief dioplomat Kaja Kallas stepped in. She's the first in 25+ years to actually know foreign policy AND speak her mind. And that's a problem.
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This week's Contintental Rift with President @ilvestoomas and @andyvalvurThe US asked NATO members to help dismantle the International Criminal Court - the only body holding Russia accountable for war crimes in Ukraine (eg kidnapping 20k children) + indictiments againts Putin
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On this week's Continental Rift with President @Ilvestoomas and @andyvalvur . Rate! Review! Follow!
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This week's Contintent Rift with President @Ilvestoomas & @andyvalvur: Germany faces a political reckoning, Trump's map and Russia's war declaration while Sweden votes. Review! Follow! Comment!
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