12/30/22 Ted Galen Carpenter on the Arrogance Behind Washington’s Foreign Policy

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Scott talks with Cato Senior Fellow Ted Galen Carpenter about American interventions in Ukraine and Syria. They dig into the likeliest escalation scenarios in Ukraine and imagine how both sides would react to defeat. That leads to a discussion about the social psychology behind Washington’s foreign policy decisions. They also look to the terror wars and tie their talk on American foreign policy psychology to the ongoing war in Syria. Discussed on the show: “How Will the Blob React if Ukraine Faces Defeat?” (Antiwar.com) “What Do Think Tanks Think? Proximity to Power and Foreign Policy Preferences” (Foreign Policy Analysis) “Washington’s Dubious Syria Intervention Continues” (Cato.org) Ted Galen Carpenter is a senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. Carpenter has written 10 books including America’s Coming War with China: A Collision Course over Taiwan and most recently NATO: Dangerous Dinosaur. He is a contributing editor at The American Conservative Magazine and the National Interest. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and Thc Hemp Spot. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
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0:55.3	latest unreliable watchdog the news media and US foreign policy. Welcome back to
1:01.6	the show Ted how are you doing? Oh, thanks very much Scott.
1:04.4	Happy to have you here on the show and happy to talk to you about I've been
1:09.7	looking forward to talking to you about this piece that you wrote for antiwar.com.
1:13.2	How will the blob react if Ukraine faces defeat?
1:18.2	And I'll go ahead and add to that, how will the Russian blob react if the Russian military faces defeat best I can tell from here and I'm no real military expert you know I just rely. It seems to me sort of like the unstoppable force
1:35.4	versus the immovable object where you have ultimately a larger Russian
1:41.0	military and a larger Russian nation behind it with superior
1:46.7	numbers of artillery forces and all these things as they've had in in their
1:50.6	advantage. On the other hand the Ukrainians have homefield advantage. in their
1:55.0	morale is high or at least higher because they're fighting in defense
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