American Prestige: E1 - Ghosting Afghanistan w/ Stephen Wertheim

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🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This is the first episode of Chapo all-stars Derek Davison & Daniel Bessner’s new foreign policy podcast “American Prestige”. To get more, go here: http://patreon.com/americanprestige In the premiere episode of American Prestige, Danny and Derek get into the US's withdrawal from Afghanistan. Did the military intentionally botch the withdrawal? Has the imperial frontier contracted in any meaningful way? Will the Taliban gain legitimacy with the Afghan people? Plus, an in-depth interview with Stephen Wertheim, discussing his new book “Tomorrow, the World”, which explores how and why during World War II U.S. elites decided that their nation should, indeed must, dominate the world.

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0:00.0	Let's find the television to your soul.
0:07.0	Let's find the television to your soul and the night.
0:07.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the first of many episodes of American prestige.
0:27.2	Thank you so much for tuning in Derek and I really appreciate it.
0:31.5	So before we get going we just like to give everyone a little sense of what the pod is
0:36.1	going to be about.
0:37.6	My name is Danny Bester.
0:39.1	I'm a historian.
0:40.1	I'm a historian of US foreign policy and I'm really an expert on macro affairs and things
0:46.4	like that.
0:47.4	The history theory and practice of US foreign policy and I'm joined by my good friend
0:52.3	and co-host Derek Davis and Derek.
0:54.2	Why don't you introduce yourself?
0:56.2	Yeah, so I mean, I so most of you already know who I am but no, I'm just kidding.
1:04.3	Yeah, now I my background is in of all things medieval Iranian history.
1:12.6	So I'm well versed to be talking about US foreign policy in the 21st century.
1:16.4	No, I studied Middle East history and policy for several years, too long at the University
1:23.0	of Chicago and I've been writing about US foreign policy and the international affairs
1:27.7	generally for man also a long time now, I guess six or seven years now and I've had my
1:35.0	newsletter for in exchanges at sub stack for a little bit over two years now.
1:40.9	So yeah, I kind of deal with the nitty gritty of what's happening in the world.
1:46.8	And so what we're going to do is we're going to provide you all with a sense of what's
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