1/22/26 Daniel Davis on Ukraine, Davos and the future of America’s Policy Towards Europe

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Scott brings Daniel Davis back to run through some of the latest developments related to American foreign policy. They discuss how close the war in Ukraine is to ending, whether US-EU cooperation is starting to fracture, whether Russia has been effectively weakened by NATO since it invaded Ukraine in 2022 and more. Discussed on the show: Daniel Davis / Deep Dive Daniel Davis did multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan during his time in the army. He is a Senior Fellow at Defense Priorities and is the author of the reports “Dereliction of Duty II: Senior Military Leaders’ Loss of Integrity Wounds Afghan War Effort” and “Go Big or Go Deep: An Analysis of Strategy Options on Afghanistan.” Find him on Twitter @DanielLDavis1and subscribe to his YouTube Channel. Audio cleaned up with the Podsworth app: https://podsworth.com Use code HORTON50 for 50% off your first order at Podsworth.com to clean up your voice recordings, sound like a pro, and also support the Scott Horton Show! For more on Scott's work: Check out The Libertarian Institute: https://www.libertarianinstitute.org Check out Scott's other show, Provoked, with Darryl Cooper https://youtube.com/@Provoked_Show Read Scott's books: Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/47jMtg7 (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com) Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/3tgMCdw Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/3HRufs0 Follow Scott on X @scotthortonshow And check out Scott’s full interview archives: https://scotthorton.org/all-interviews This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Incorporated https://rrbi.co Moon Does Artisan Coffee https://scotthorton.org/coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom https://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=1616 and Dissident Media https://dissidentmedia.comYou can also support Scott’s work by making a one-time or recurring donation at https://scotthorton.org/donate/https://scotthortonshow.com or https://patreon.com/scotthortonshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen of the press have been less than honest, reporting to the American people what's going on in this country?
0:11.0	Because the babies are making this.
0:13.0	We're dealing with Hitler Revisited.
0:15.0	This is the Scott Horton Show, Libertarian Foreign Policy, mostly. When the when the president visit that means that it is
0:24.0	not only we're going to take out seven countries they're doing negotiate now end this war and
0:33.6	now here's your host, Scott Porton.
0:51.9	All right, you guys, introducing the great Daniel L. Davis, host of the Daniel Davis deep dive here on the YouTube's, where you guys already watch them every day.
0:53.9	Welcome back to the show. How you doing, sir?
0:55.3	I'm doing all right, Scott.
0:56.6	Thanks for having me as always.
0:58.2	Happy to have you here. So for those not familiar, Danny was in Iraq War I and Iraq War II and Afghanistan.
1:03.7	And he was the great whistleblower in 2012 about the failure of David Petraeus's surge and
1:09.6	tripling of that horrific war there.
1:12.4	And now he is current day military and foreign policy analyst with a very sharp eye on,
1:19.4	well, everything blowing up, basically.
1:22.1	Let's start with Ukraine.
1:25.5	There's still talk all the time about ongoing negotiations and even positive statements about how well they're progressing and this kind of thing.
1:35.1	It seems, Danny, that we just have to iron out the permanent security guarantees for Ukraine and who's going to give them and what all do they mean?
1:43.0	Well, pardon me, but that sounds like
1:44.4	quite a sticking point, like maybe even the cause of the war in the first place. So I was wondering,
1:50.4	but look, I don't know because a lot of things have changed. A lot of people have died and this war
1:53.7	has been very expensive for Russia as well as for Ukraine. And so I don't know, man, there's got to be
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