Russia, Ukraine, and Foreign Policy Restraint (Robert Wright & Derek Davison)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Does the “restrainer community” actually exist? ... Has the Ukraine war fractured the restrainer community? ... How should a restrainer respond to Putin’s invasion? ... How war-time psychology impairs objective analysis ... Unpacking the differences between left-wing and right-wing restrainers ... Is realism essential to the pro-restraint worldview—or just its conservative variant? ... Some dubious characters Biden takes advice from ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast.
0:08.1	Hi, Derek.
0:09.5	Hi, Bob.
0:10.5	How you doing?
0:11.6	Good.
0:12.0	How are you?
0:13.2	Can't complain.
0:14.4	Let me introduce this.
0:15.3	I'm Robert Wright.
0:16.8	This is the non-zero podcast.
0:18.5	You're Derek Davison, CEO of the Derek Davidson Media Empire.
0:24.9	That's a good way to put it, yes.
0:26.8	Yeah, well, you have me to think.
0:28.8	I guess if you start going with that.
0:32.3	So we're going to talk about foreign affairs.
0:35.6	In particular, the Ukraine War, whether the Ukraine War has fractured
0:41.0	the so-called restrainer community, you know, kind of the anti-militarist.
0:45.7	An emerging, in some ways, ideologically diverse community that I think has gained momentum
0:51.7	in recent years.
0:52.6	There's been some talk that the Ukraine War is a big challenge for the community and is
0:58.1	leading people to bail out.
1:00.5	We're going to talk about that.
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