Inching closer to nuclear war

Pod Save the World

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Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Tommy talks with New York Times editor and writer Max Fisher about disconcerting signs that the Trump administration is seriously considering a military attack on North Korea. Then they talk about how ambiguous demands about US credibility can lead us to make terrible foreign policy decisions, and the changing expectations in Afghanistan.

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1:00.1	Today on Potsy the World my guest is a New York Times journalist named Max Fisher.
1:06.2	We talk about North Korea are we ticking closer to a military confrontation.
1:10.8	We talk about something he's dubbed the Credibility Trap which over decades in Washington has pushed
1:15.6	us to see a military confrontation as the necessary outcome in all our foreign policy debates
1:20.9	so as to preserve US credibility around the world and we talk about Afghanistan.
1:25.5	It barely got mentioned in President Trump's state of the Union speech but experts on Afghanistan
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