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Hi Everyone! Welcome back to International Intrigue's newest show: John&Jacob! Every week, Intrigue CEO and Former Australian Diplomat John Fowler and Cognitive Investments Director of Geopolitical Analysis Jacob Shapiro bring you fresh, egoless analysis of the world's most pressing stories.
This week, we watched massive upheaval in Venezuela following President Maduro's claim to his reelection despite much suspicion on the results. John and Jacob unpack Maduro's Venezuela, the strategy of the US and other Western countries supporting the opposition, and how this all could be an opportunity for Brazil and its President Lula. We then switch to the Middle East, where traded attacks by Hezbollah on the Golan Heights and Israel on Beirut have massively escalated the prospects for a hot conflict, made even worse by Israel's assassination of ...
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