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The More the World Hears from the US, the More Confused it Gets

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

⁠“Rubio goes to Munich, then goes out for a cup of tea…”⁠ The Munich Security Conference highlighted the unpredictability of US foreign policy. Europe is coming to terms with US unreliability, and the Democratic party is beginning to see its primary candidates emerge. What should we make of the Munich Security Conference? What - or who - is the future of the Democratic party? Max Boot of the Council on Foreign Relations joins David Rothkopf, Rosa Brooks, and Ed Luce to discuss all this and more. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

9, 12, 10, 28, 2, 23.

0:17.2

This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, D.C., and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.

0:35.7

Hello, and welcome Deep State Radio. I am your host, David Rothkopf, and I am joined by our faves, Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University

0:45.0

Law Center.

0:46.0

How are you doing today, Rosa?

0:47.0

Excellent, David.

0:48.0

The world is great.

0:50.0

The world is great.

0:50.6

The world is great.

0:52.6

Okay, that's great. We should just end the podcast right there. And

0:57.4

by Ed Luce, who's been traveling the world. How are you doing, Ed? Very well. I see

1:03.9

Rosa's World is great and raise it by a galaxy. Well, there's a lot of galaxies, so I'm not sure you're raising it by the one we live in, but

1:14.1

let's let's start with this. Ed, I know among your travels, well, okay, we'll get to the universe

1:21.5

later. Let's build. Let's have a slow build here. And I know for a fact, because I've been

1:26.9

reading your work, that you were in Munich

1:30.0

and you hobnobbed, you listened to what was going on. You even had a conversation with Gavin

1:37.8

Newsom, the man who, of all the Democratic possibilities for 28 wants it the most.

1:47.6

How was Munich?

1:50.2

Munich was, I mean, absorbing because this is such an interesting time to be having, you know,

1:57.9

this fractured, widening transatlantic rift, to be having this fractured widening transatlantic rift to be having this this traditional

2:04.9

transatlantic security forum i can imagine there would be years where it would have been quite dull

2:10.3

and ho-hum this one wasn't one of those. The intensity of sort of European fears about whether America is gone for good was what sort of really

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