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Oh, look, it's Derek Davison and Danny Besner, the American Prestige podcast, and I'm Robert Wright in the Non Zero podcast, and this can mean only one thing.

This is one of the occasional collaborations between communist peacemicks and neoliberal it means the continued breakdown of western civilization is what it means yeah yeah

hello bob how you guys you would describe yourself as a neoliberal well no but i don't think

you guys probably wouldn't describe yourself as communist would you would you i you? I mean, there's, I don't know the technical terminology. No, probably not. No, probably. I mean, describing oneself as a communist is like describing oneself as an Aryan Christian. It doesn't really exist anymore, so it's just in your mind. I would say, Derek, I would say what, socialist, social, probably more social Democrats Democrats than a Democratic socialist, even though there's not that much of a difference.

Yeah, I mean, the distinction is lost on me, so I'll just, I'll go with whatever you say.

Yeah, so social Democrats here.

But we are united in the mission of restraint.

We are restrains.

Do you accept that level as far as your

foreign policy? Yeah, yeah, for sure. As far as it goes. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Okay. So look, I bring good news to you guys.

Yesterday, Trump did not use our tax dollars to bomb a boat in the Caribbean that may or may not have drugs and then

go back and bomb again to make sure any survivors are dead. Instead, he used our tax dollars

to seize a Venezuelan oil tanker, you know, also almost certainly illegal, almost certainly a violation of international law.

And I would add that, the ostensible purpose of it is to enforce unilateral sanctions

that have the effect of raising the price we pay for gasoline, but no one was killed.

And I think that's an improvement.

I think we may be moving toward a kinder and gentler version of the Trump corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, which I think is an actual phrase, right?

In the national security strategy document that got Europe so riled this week, I think the Trump Corollary.

I don't know if it's in the document, but they're definitely calling at that.

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