Pardoning Turkeys While Rome Burns: Russia’s Supersonic Missile & Fears of Cultural Genocide

In this episode, Alex starts by stopping himself from ranting about Thanksgiving being overrated (mainly because of turkey). Then Alex transitions to talking about Turkey — in this case, President Biden seems to be pardoning turkeys as the world burns. Of course, he argues that Biden has done a lot, but there is something symbolic about a lame duck pardoning a turkey. Alex spends the majority of the episode talking about the troubling new hypersonic missile that Russia is testing and using in Ukraine. He also talks about escalation, Putin gaslighting the west, fears of cultural genocide in Ukraine, and why the United Kingdom is worried about cyberattacks using AI coming from Russia.