Germany’s Far-Right VICTORY Sends SHOCKWAVES Across Europe

The far right gets a huge win in Germany, Serbia celebrates a war criminal, and Nigel Farage gets caught on camera breaking the law. Tommy and Ben dig into the ultra-right-wing AfD party's historic results in a regional election, what drove it, what it would mean if they actually form a coalition government, and what it says about the state of European politics more broadly. Trump’s dumb and dumber team of negotiators (Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff) return from a busy weekend traveling to Moscow meeting with Vladimir Putin, and their first trip to Ukraine to meet with Volodymyr Zelensky on a train they named the “Peace Express.” In Serbia, convicted genocide architect Ratko Mladić is given a funeral fit for a national hero, which doesn’t bode well for the country’s pathway into the EU. The UK's new Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announces a sweeping shift in British policy toward Israeli settlements, and a bombshell Haaretz investigation reveals that Netanyahu received a direct warning from the UAE about a major Hamas attack ten days before October 7th. There are nothing but bad updates in the fallout from the war with Iran, including tit-for-tat strikes, mass polygraph tests at the Pentagon, and the dangerous escalation of the Saudi-Houthi conflict. And finally, a Channel 4 investigation catches Nigel Farage on camera conspiring to illegally solicit foreign donations. At the end of the show, Ben speaks to Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 about what we have and haven’t learned 25 years after the 9/11 attacks. CHECK OUT OUR SPONSORS: REMI: https://www.shopremi.com/PSTW Code: PSTW MONARCH: https://www.monarch.com Code: PODCAST SIMPLISAFE: https://www.simplisafe.com/crookedworld QUO: https://www.quo.com/WORLD BETTERHELP: https://www.betterhelp.com/crookedworld SQUARESPACE: https://www.squarespace.com/WORLD Chapters: 00:00 - Opening 03:18 - German Elections 18:26 - Ad Break 21:26 - Kusher & Witkoff Go To Moscow 29:35 - Serbia’s Blood History 37:22 - Ad Break 39:49 - Israel Updates 46:59 - Hama Attack Story 57:15 - Nigel Farage Corruption 1:03:56 - Ad Break 1:06:41 - Intv. w/ Lawrence Wright Want Pod Save the World ad-free? Subscribe to Friends of the Pod: https://www.crooked.com/friends Head to CrookedCon.com for tickets, lineup announcements, and more! http://crookedcon.com/ For a transcript of an episode of Pod Save the World, please email transcripts@crooked.com. Photos courtesy of AP Photo Archive Crooked Media believes that we need a better conversation about politics, culture, and the world around us—one that doesn’t just focus on what’s broken, but what we can do to fix it. We are a media network that showcases stories, voices, and opportunities for activism that inform, entertain, and inspire action, because it’s up to all of us to do our part to build a better world. That’s it. End of mission. Learn more about us at crooked.com