7/11/23 Daniel Davis on the Counteroffensive and Cluster Bombs

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Scott was joined by Daniel Davis on Antiwar Radio this week to talk about Ukraine. In this interview, Davis gives an update on where things stand with the counter-offensive. They then refute some common arguments about how antiwar folks are responsible for Ukraine’s trouble breaching Russian lines. They then talk about some of the latest ideas drummed up by beltway “experts” to bring about an end to the war, including cluster bombs. Scott and Davis unpack what’s being presented and think through the likeliest consequences if these ideas are adopted. Discussed on the show: Eleventh Hour in 2020 America by Daniel Davis 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 @DanielLDavis1. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; 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	For Pacifica Radio, July 13th, 2023.
0:05.0	I'm Scott Horton.
0:08.0	This is Anti War Radio. All right, y'all welcome the show it is anti-war radio. I'm your host Scott Horton.
0:25.0	I'm the editorial director of anti-war.com and author of the book Hotter than the Sun,
0:31.0	time to abolish nuclear weapons. You can find my full interview archive,
0:35.2	almost 6,000 of them now going back to 2003 at Scott Horton.org and at YouTube.com slash Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at Scott Horton's show. All right, y'all welcoming back to the show,
0:53.8	the great Daniel L Davis.
0:56.4	He is a lieutenant colonel in the US Army.
0:58.2	Retired now, but he was a combat veteran
1:01.1	of Iraq War I, Iraq War II and Afghanistan.
1:05.0	And of course, Matthew Ho gets all the great credit for blowing the whistle in 2009,
1:10.3	warning Obama not to do the surge.
1:13.0	But then three years later, Danny came out and said,
1:16.0	Matthew was right, you shouldn't have done that,
1:18.0	and it didn't work, and Petraeus is lying,
1:21.0	saying that it did.
1:22.0	And it was really huge and important and he's been
1:25.1	telling the truth all about war ever since then and he wrote a great book that's
1:29.8	called the 11th hour in 2020 America and he writes for well he's a senior fellow
1:35.8	with defense priorities and writes for 1945.com most of all I believe welcome back how you doing day I'm doing good Scott always
1:45.6	good pleasure to be here happy to have you here so it's been a few weeks can we
1:50.7	just start with catching us up about what's going on on the ground in
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