John Bolton’s One-Man Show

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🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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If the U.S. stumbles into a war with Iran, it’ll be largely one of John Bolton’s making. The national security adviser appears to be running the foreign policy show at the White House and has a taste for regime change in several countries, including Iran. Who’s the surprising person inside the administration reining him in? And can the U.S. recover from four years of antagonizing our allies and expanding our enemies list? Guest: Dexter Filkins, staff writer at the New Yorker Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Ethan Brooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Dexter Filkins, your latest article was called on the Warpath.
0:10.0	Do you think the US is on the Warpath?
0:11.6	Oh, maybe.
0:12.6	Maybe.
0:13.6	What did Trotsky say?
0:15.3	You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
0:18.7	And that's always true.
0:20.1	Dexter Filkins is a writer at The New Yorker.
0:22.5	He reports on foreign policy, national security.
0:25.8	He's the kind of guy who can quote Trotsky, and it just feels right.
0:29.5	I think it's fair to say there's three places where the United States kind of take
0:34.2	in a stick out.
0:35.2	Yeah, how many simmering conflicts do we have right now?
0:37.9	Well, they're just, you know, they're simmering.
0:39.9	So there's no shots are being fired, but North Korea, Iran, and Venezuela.
0:45.0	And kind of all those are just kind of right out front.
0:47.8	Two of them are genuinely problematic, North Korea and Venezuela.
0:52.3	You know, Venezuela is imploding, and North Korea, nobody knows what to do.
0:58.4	Iran, I'm a little puzzled by the belligerents, but basically three places.
1:03.1	They've kind of taken a stick out.
1:04.4	Yeah, where would you focus us?
1:06.4	Because I mean, I feel like the news this week is about Iran.
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