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Today’s podcast features our old friend Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, who joins us to discuss Ron DeSantis’s characterization of the war in Ukraine as a “territorial dispute” in which we should not become entangled. And then we talk about the stunning news that China has brokered a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia and what this says about American foreign policy, in line with Schanzer’s 2021 COMMENTARY article, “Diplomatic Arson in the Middle East.” Give a listen.
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While 99.99% of the US has no interest in Ukraine and DeSantis’s comments strike a nice tone. Holding the rightness or wrongness of the stances aside, the objections to Obama’s policy some years ago is an inconsistency that needs to be explored.
I for one do not want to vote for a flipflop Mitt Romney type character if that’s what DeSantis is.
SO, if you could maybe press that more it will probably remove him as a viable candidate. If in fact he has some deeper principled reasoning, I’d be fine; but maybe you guys can poke around on that and see.
I look at this as a win win: you don’t want DeSantis because he isn’t as Democrat neocon as you guys, and I don’t want him if he is a flip flop that won’t do what he claims he will. Let us join hands and suss him out together.
There are many on the right who have a soft spot for genocidal tyrants who claim to be against sodomy. Just as there are many on the left who have a soft spot for genocidal tyrants who claim to support wealth redistribution.
The Jamal Khashoggi murder reminds me of a mob hit. One mob family rubs out a member of another mob family.