Erin & Jake break down the last week’s chaos surrounding Ukraine, with peace talks in Riyadh that didn’t include Ukraine or the Europeans, and Trump seeming to align more with Russia than the west. Then they talk through the crypto scandal that Argentine President Javier Milei is caught up in, having shared a link to a “rug pull” scam on social media. In the DRC, they discussed the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels taking over of Bukavu, and what the real aims from Rwanda seem to be here. 

Then, in Have You Heard headlines, they go through the rest of the week’s stories to keep you in the know about what else is happening out there in the world. 

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Erin Flanagan is a former U.S. Coast Guard intelligence officer and Agence France-Presse digital investigations journalist.


Jacob Shropshire is an editorial intern at Worldcrunch and the managing editor of Peacock Media at the American University of Paris. He spent two years working for Democratic political campaigns in the U.S.

Liam Kuhns provided editing assistance for the podcast.