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🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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A Chinese “civilian airship” wafts across the US heartland. Vladimir Putin ramps up the saber-rattling as the one-year anniversary of his Ukraine invasion nears. And could a single platinum coin be America’s debt elixir? Victor Davis Hanson, the Hoover Institution’s Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow, joins Hoover senior fellows Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster, and John Cochrane to discuss “eyes in the sky,” ground warfare, plus one soccer-and-rugby-loving fellow’s super disgust with the super-sized spectacle that is the Super Bowl.

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0:00.0	When I was briefed on the balloon, I ordered the Pentagon to shoot it down on Wednesday as soon as possible.
0:06.0	They decided that the best time you do that was it got over water outside within our within 12-mile limit.
0:18.0	It's Monday, February the 6th, 2023, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast
0:23.8	examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.
0:27.9	I'm Bill Whelan.
0:28.7	I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow.
0:30.3	I'll be your moderator today, which means I get you to introduce the stars of our show.
0:34.2	Three of my colleagues we jokingly refer to as the Goodfellows.
0:36.8	That would include the historian
0:38.3	Neil Ferguson, the economist John Cochran, and the geostr strategist, Lieutenant General A.R. McMaster,
0:44.0	they are Hoover Institution Senior Fellows. All rounding out our conversation today, we have a
0:48.4	Goodfellow's favorite returning to the show, backed by popular demand, Victor Davis Hanson.
0:53.1	Victor is the Martin Ely Anderson Senior fellow here at the Hoover Institution.
0:56.5	He is a historian and classicist.
0:58.1	He is a prolific author and columnist.
1:00.6	On top of all of that, he runs a family farm in the San Joaquin Valley.
1:03.8	I think his next book should probably be on time management because I'm not sure how he manages to do all this, but somehow it makes it all work very well.
1:09.6	Victor, welcome back to the show.
1:14.7	Thank you guys for having me. Okay, so I think you can all guess where we're going to start today. I have a lot of questions for you, wise gentlemen, with regard to the balloon, such as what
1:19.6	is China's intention here, such as what is the proper response by the United States? Did we do the right
1:24.9	thing shooting it down? What's the next step? What if any reprisals were there be on the part of Beijing? What next for diplomacy, Neil?
1:31.9	Does Tony Blinking need to get on a plane to go to Beijing right away or not? HR? What about the
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