{"podcast":{"title":"The Long Game with Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer","slug":"the-long-game-with-jake-sullivan-and-jon-finer-7566719","podcast_index_feed_id":7566719,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/VMP3740058044","website_url":"http://vmpod.co/longgame","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/fb06dd1e-b442-11f0-b58c-bb86392870b8/image/04c81ad068f79bb2b9469a501c3c63bb.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Vox Media Podcast Network","episode_count":33,"summary":"The Long Game is a weekly national security podcast hosted by Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s National Security Advisor, and Jon Finer, his Principal Deputy—senior aides who sat in on the classified Presidential Daily Brief each morning and translated raw intelligence into policy advice. Each week, Jake and Jon will pull back the curtain on how power really works helping you make sense of the national security stories unfolding today. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-24T18:18:37.215816+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-long-game-with-jake-sullivan-and-jon-finer-7566719"},"episode":{"title":"Iran Talks and Trump’s Cuba Strategy w/Ricardo Zúñiga","slug":"iran-talks-and-trump-s-cuba-strategy-w-ricardo-z-iga","published_at":"2026-05-28T08:07:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-long-game-with-jake-sullivan-and-jon-finer-7566719/iran-talks-and-trump-s-cuba-strategy-w-ricardo-z-iga","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-long-game-with-jake-sullivan-and-jon-finer-7566719","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP4990654510.mp3?updated=1779916960","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP4990654510.mp3?updated=1779916960","summary":"President Trump is simultaneously pursuing peace talks with Iran while escalating U.S. military pressure in the region following recent strikes. Jake Sullivan and Jon Finer revisit the policy options most likely facing the administration and walk through how they would advise the president at this moment of escalation and diplomacy. Then, Ricardo Zúñiga, former Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the National Security Council and one of the architects of the Obama administration’s opening to Cuba, joins to discuss: The politics behind U.S.-Cuba policy What Obama was trying to achieve through engagement with Havana How Trump’s approach to Cuba and Latin America has changed in his second term The likelihood that the U.S. will undertake some form of military action in Cuba Whether sanctions and pressure campaigns still create meaningful leverage How Venezuela reshaped U.S. thinking about authoritarian regimes in the hemisphere Follow The Long Game so you never miss an episode. New episodes drop weekly. Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube. Show notes are available here. Transcript coming soon. Email Jake and Jon at longgame@voxmedia.com. The Long Game is produced by the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices","meta_description":"President Trump is simultaneously pursuing peace talks with Iran while escalating U.S. military pressure in the region following recent strikes. Jake Sull…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4303,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-long-game-with-jake-sullivan-and-jon-finer-7566719/episodes/iran-talks-and-trump-s-cuba-strategy-w-ricardo-z-iga/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-long-game-with-jake-sullivan-and-jon-finer-7566719/iran-talks-and-trump-s-cuba-strategy-w-ricardo-z-iga.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}