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#DominoTheory: What to make of the Cold War Domino Theory being used to explain continued support for the struggling Ukraine? @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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#DominoTheory: What to make of the Cold War Domino Theory being used to explain continued support for the struggling Ukraine? @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness

https://amgreatness.com/2024/02/24/the-domino-theory-2-0-ukraine-then-taiwan/

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Barclays. Search Barclays business banking. This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I am John Batchelor, joined by my good friend

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Thaddis McCotter writing in American greatness about the Domino theory. This is my youth, the 20th century, the domino theory coming out of the red scare of the 1950s

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was straightforward. If this country falls, then that one will fall.

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Usually they're pointing to some countries in Asia. Very difficult to find on a map.

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The first one they pointed to was not Vietnam. It was not Cambodia. It was Laos. That was

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the fear. If Laos falls then. And then they did the old Switcheroo and we were in Vietnam and therein lies the tragedy of

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the 20th century for the boomers.

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That is a very good evening to you, the domino theory in the 21st century. How does it work? Good evening to you the domino theory in the 21st century how does it work good evening to you

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good evening to you John well in short it stems from the premise that whatever happens in Ukraine, Putin is successful with his invasion of Ukraine,

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that could lead the Communist Chinese to invade Taiwan.

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Now without going into the merits of that argument, I was trying to point out that the American public does not necessarily by that logic.

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And the reason is rather simple, John, when you think of it, necessarily by that logic.

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And the reason is rather simple, John,

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when you think about it.

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The United States voter watches the elites

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deal with Communist China as if it is just another nation, just another nation that you can get rich off of, that you can put foreign investment into, that you can engage in diplomacy and this overlooks the very fact that the Chinese regime is engaged in what they

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Unabashedly declared to be unrestricted warfare against the hegemonic United States.

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