Alternate Shots.
Podcast Episode #28
(‘Alternate Shots’ with Richard Haass and John Ellis. Recorded 21 May 2026. Produced by Dale Eisinger)
After a brief hiatus, ‘Alternate Shots’ returns with a kind of status report on (1) the war in the Gulf, (2) Diverging U.S.-Israeli interests, (3) “strategic ambiguity”, Taiwan and the mainland, (4) Ukraine’s resilience, Putin’s paranoia, (5) the GOP’s rock and a hard place, and (6) The rise of Wemby and, in the NBA’s Eastern Conference Finals, the New York Knicks.
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