The DSR Network - Podcast Rankings and reviews

The show with Stuart Stevens was the most interesting, informative and insightful episode I have ever heard. And the first 16 minutes were anything but boring! That background information by Stevens was fascinating, as was the rest of the show. I listened to it three times.

Adopt a cat or kitten, Reilly! It doesn’t matter if it’s a purebred - they’re all individuals and magical in their own way. David is right that it will make your life much better! You rescue them and they rescue you right back.

I am so grateful for the DSR podcast keeping us informed as the barrage of lies from the Trump administration continues. I wanted to share 5calls.org being helpful in contacting appropriate congress people, giving info & scripts with who to contact in your area. Part of resisting is accurate information then using our voices to inform congress of harm that power grabs & dismantling government bring to us all.

This program trumps the sort of reporting which, by seeking to be fair, only normalizes the plague of quackery which poses as leadership while seeming puzzled by it. Looking for arcane or sane motives behind the current spate of outrageous malice only succeeds in treating the lunacy as somehow rational. Chaos doesn’t always have depth nor does it always contain emergent order. Conversely, this podcast engages in solid analysis and also manages to call a daffy duck a duck.

I used to love this podcast when it was David Sanger, Kori Schake, Ed Luce and Rosa Brooks.

It has undergone a steady decline. David only invites guests that agree with him and it’s barely about foreign policy or strategy anymore. It is the epitome of US narcissism where everything they discuss revolves around US policy or relates to the US election. David obsessively hates Netanyahu (fine) but fails to even talk about the geopolitics, he just cherry picks questions to his guests to ensure they criticize everything and anything done by Netanyahu. I’m not a fan of him either but the recent episode on Israel’s killing of Nasrallah and Iran’s strike against Israel was mind blowing. Such bad analysis, if it could even be called that. Concluding that Israel eliminated Nasrallah to impact the election (are you kidding me? Israel has actual threats on its border and that’s the angle you take?) not to mention Barbara’s all-around bad takes and sympathy towards the Iranian regime. There was no discussion of Israel’s strategic environment, the history of the Hezbollah-Israel conflict, why dismantling a terrorist org could change the strategic landscape of future of Lebanon. This show has become empty and political, and David’s direction is to blame. I turn to Rational Security for actual contemplative analysis.