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This week on Black Diplomats, where everyone can be a diplomat, I breakdown Russian President Vladimir Putin’s no-so-certain in-person attendance at this year’s BRICS Summit in South Africa’s, GOP House Leader Kevin McCarthy’s brave reassurance of the Republican support for Ukraine and the bullshit “journalism” claiming Vice President Kamala Harris is a liability for Joe Biden in 2024. 

And we have very special guest Rula Jebreal, who will talk about all things Palestine and Israel.

Read this New Voice of Ukraine report about South Africa’s anxiousness about Putin attending BRICS in person. 

Also read this Washington Post analysis about House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s strong support for Ukraine. 

Watch Roy Wood Jr’s White House Correspondents Dinner stand up in full. It was great. His words about VP Harris start at 17:00. 

Show Outline:

01:36: Putin’s South Africa BRICS Problem And Ukraine’s Africa Diplomacy Challenges 

14:24: House Speaker McCarthy Speaks Up For Ukraine

19:24: What Is VP Harris Up To?

29:09: Feature Interview with Rula  Jabreal 

Intro, intermission and outro music by Detroit independent artist Ink Prod.

About Rula Jebreal 

Rula Jebreal is a Visiting Professor at The University of Miami, where she teaches Communications. Jebreal served on the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council, a body  relaunched by French President Emmanuel Macron. She is an award-winning Journalist, author and foreign policy expert who has received accolades for her groundbreaking work in Italy, the United States and across the Middle East.

In May 2017, Jebreal was enlisted to introduce former President Barak Obama at his first European public appearance since leaving office, at which he gave the keynote speech on food security and climate change, at the Global Innovation Summit. Jebreal is an on-air foreign policy expert she appears frequently on CNN, MSNBC Bloomberg, HBO and NBC, she has written many op-eds for the New York Times and The Washington Post and Foreign Policy, NewsWeek and Time.

Jebreal Wrote extensively about authoritarian regimes and predicted Trump’s victory in an article for the Washington post in 2015 called Trump is America’s Berlusconi.