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PREVIEW: Colleague John Yoo of Civitas comments on the success of the United States to keep the peace since 1945. More to come.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: Colleague John Yoo of Civitas comments on the success of the United States to keep the peace since 1945. More to come.
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This is John Batchel, conversation with colleague John Yu at the Civitas Institute. He also is a professor

1:07.8

at the University of Texas at Austin in civic leadership and a professor of law at Berkeley Law School,

1:14.3

discussing peace kept by the United States, having accepted the mantle of peacekeeper from Great Britain once upon a time.

1:23.6

And how is the U.S. measured?

1:26.8

Is it successful, or is it, as John points to, in decline, pulling back?

1:34.3

Here's John U. on what he is and is not persuaded by the present circumstances.

1:40.4

Much more of this tonight. Keeping the peace or making illegal war is the question. More of this.

1:48.6

And it has succeeded. You could also look back and say the period between the Napoleonic War and World War I, also a period of relatively great peace and prosperity was unwritten by the British,

2:02.9

that was called the Pax Britannica.

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And you could say the period after 1945 has been the Pax Americana.

2:11.2

And scholars would say the World War I and World War II in a way were problems because

2:16.9

the United States wasn't yet ready to accept the mantle of leadership that the British tried to pass onto us.

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