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It’s hard to win these days. Not only do we have worries about war, we’ve got worries over worries about war. Is the Biden administration’s foreign policy dangerously cautious? That’s what Peter and James discuss – and argue about – with our guest, AEI’s Kori Schake.
The hosts (minus Rob, who was off podcasting elsewhere…) also chat about Italy’s Giorgia Meloni; James gets peeved, and it’a lots of fun; they do some speculating of their own about the bubbles in the Baltic; and Peter recalls the time he had dinner with a mega-celeb and had no idea who said mega-celeb was.
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The United States Navy keeps trade routes open.
I think it’s been within the past year, or pretty close anyway, that a guest on the “Flagship” podcast engaged with members in these comments. I think it was about education/teachers’ unions/etc. But there’s probably zero chance of that happening in this case.
Yes! Yes! The world of globalization is probably the biggest reason for U.S. involvement in foreign entanglements, which Peter Zeihan says is ending and will cause even greater disruptions around the world. (He also claims that China’s fate is sealed demographically and that negative birth rates as a result of their one-child policy will destroy their entire system within the next decade. [I remember Mark Steyn used to say that China would get old before it got rich.] Kind of like Hitler letting anti-Semitism destroy his dream by forcing the migration of their smartest scientists to the U.S.) For me, the worst thing about globalization is that the elites decided everything among themselves and never kept the promises they made to the rest of us. Again, Congress is a disgrace.
And Troy Senik weeps, “How quickly they forget…”
We did every single thing wrong in the face of the wage deflation and job destruction from automation and globalized labor. Now they are panicked about socialism and populism. Well, they did it to themselves. If you are going to create that much deflation, which is just natural because people want lower prices and more output per dollar, you have to make some big policy changes. They didn’t.
Trading with China was a huge mistake. They are nothing but mafia that wants to rip off their own people and the whole planet. What year should they have figured this out?
He did so little compared to that other guest, I should be forgiven for not remembering his.
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I’ve seen thoughts that things peak around 2027. India will pass them, if they already haven’t. That might be the time when a Taiwan reunification has to happen.
Let’s see, Florida gets half the number of Javelin missiles sent to Ukraine…
We should charge other nations for it.
I know you’re trying to be sarcastic, but yeah.
I just canceled my subscription to the AEI Banter podcast.
Good. AEI is a friend to globalists, not Americans. Your job has gone overseas? Hey, learn to code! (And you can program the robots that’ll take your jobs!)
I am glad @jameslileks pushed back despite our disagreements on this subject.
I felt listening to her like she just got from Saigon in 73 from an interview with Van Thieu.
If she is any indication of the people running things and I believe she is, we are in deep do do.
Can you imagine if she were in an interview with the two of us? I feel their would be a disconnection pretty quick.
Also only a complete fool still believes that the German Green party is still pacifistic. They are the hardest of Neo-cons. Completely captured party.