5/9/25 Joseph Solis-Mullen on What’s Happening Between India and Pakistan

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Scott brings professor and Libertarian Institute Fellow Joseph Solis-Mullen to talk about the recent violence that broke out between India and Pakistan. Solis-Mullen puts the dispute over the northern region of Kashmir into context before he and Scott dig into the specific events that led to this Indian military operation and Pakistani response. They then zoom out and examine where this all might be heading within the broader global geopolitical dynamic of the day. Discussed on the show: The National Debt and You: What it Is, How it Works, and Why it Matters by Joseph Solis-Mullen “Our Real National Security Budget” (Spoils of War) “The Kashmir Powder Keg” (Libertarian Institute) Joseph Solis-Mullen is a political scientist and economist at The Libertarian Institute and a professor of politics and history at SAU. He is the author of The National Debt and You and The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger. Follow him on Twitter @solis_mullen and find his work at his website. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Incorporated; Moon Does Artisan Coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. 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: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, you, welcome to the Scott Horton Show.
0:11.6	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of anti-war.com,
0:16.4	and author of Provoked, how Washington started the new Cold War with Russia and the catastrophe in Ukraine.
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0:27.6	I've got more than 6,000 interviews in the archive for you there going back to 2003.
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0:36.5	Hey, you guys, on the line, I've got Joseph Solis Mullin, and he is a professor at Spring
0:42.8	Harbor University in Michigan, and he's a fellow at the Libertarian Institute where he writes.
0:47.7	Really great stuff, and we published his books, two of them already, right?
0:53.8	Welcome the show. How are you doing i'm good scott thanks are you
0:57.3	thanks for having me on uh very happy to have you here you know i have your book here and i plead busy as
1:03.3	hell it's not my fault i haven't read it yet i published it but i haven't read the the latest one
1:10.1	on the national debt you You want to tell us
1:11.6	about it for just a minute? And then I promise we're going to catch up on that.
1:15.7	Sure, no problem. It's just a primer on what the national debt is and how it works. And then,
1:23.1	you know, why it matters, which is, of course, why the book is subtitled the way it is.
1:26.5	But I basically just wanted to explain to people the mechanics of how the national debt works,
1:31.1	what it actually is, and why it's not going anywhere, basically.
1:36.2	And my case for basically a default as soon as possible.
1:41.1	That is, of course, not what's happening.
1:43.3	We're going in the opposite direction, despite what you may hear about the Department
1:47.5	of Government Efficiency's efforts, which I hear those votes were canceled anyway.
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