Walter Russell Mead discusses a new United States–Indonesia defense agreement, robots replacing manual labor in Kentucky, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s support for Hamas, and Joe Biden's approach to Israel through the lens of Iran policy on the podcast What Really Matters.

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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)