10/17/25 Daniel Davis on Ukraine, Gaza, the Taliban and Venezuela

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Scott brings Daniel Davis back on the show to update us on multiple ongoing conflicts. They start with where things stand in Ukraine before moving on to the situation in Gaza and ending with a quick look at the fighting between factions in Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as Trump’s moves against Venezuela. 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. 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.com You 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 it.
0:13.0	We're dealing with Hitler Revisited.
0:15.0	This is the Scott Horton Show, Libertarian Foreign Policy, mostly. When the the president doesn't that means that it is not
0:24.2	only we're going to take out seven countries they're doing negotiate now end this war and now
0:34.2	here's your host, Scott Horton.
0:41.2	All right, y'all, welcome the show.
0:42.7	I'm Scott Horton.
0:43.8	It's the Scott Horton show.
0:50.8	And introducing our guest, the great Daniel L. Davis, the Army gave him a bronze star,
0:56.2	but I gave him an anti-war hero of the year award for 2012 when he blew the whistle on David Petraeus, the great American fraud and his horrible lies about his successes,
1:03.0	because he didn't dare pretend to even try to say the word victory, but his successes in Afghanistan,
1:08.7	which Danny pointed out were no such thing at all.
1:13.4	And of course, he is a brilliant analyst, wrote a bunch of great articles before he decided
1:20.2	that YouTube's easier.
1:21.4	And now he hosts the Daniel Davis Deep Dive, which is really great.
1:26.3	It's the most important war analysis show on the internet that you can find, I think.
1:31.7	And great to have you back on the show. How you doing, sir?
1:33.7	Very kind of you to say. I appreciate that. And I'm always a pleasure to be on your show.
1:38.3	Ah, well, that's so kind of you. All right. So, first of all, Zelensky is in Washington, D.C. I guess he's meeting with Trump right now. Do you know the latest? Do you have any kind of insight into what is the point of this trip? Did Trump summon him to come here to give him instructions or he just came here to ask for more weapons or what is it?
2:00.6	No, timing,
2:01.3	timing was not good from Zelensky's perspective.
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