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Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

The Real Threat from Russia is Ignored and Made Worse by the Political Class Ep. 252

Conservative Review with Daniel Horowitz

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.83.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Republicans lack a conservative vision on foreign policy and Russia, and therefore we are seeing a lot of false dichotomies being supported by some of our friends. It’s no different from the false dichotomies we see in the primaries, when President Trump supports RINO candidates because conservatives have no coherent and robust plan of their own.  We begin the show by discussing how Trump is hurting us in primaries by supporting RINOs but not conservatives. This is the fault of the comatose conservative movement refusing to get involved and get in Trump’s ear the way Kevin McCarthy does for his candidates. Next, we move on to Russia. The real threat from Russia is not election hacking but its nuclear dominance mixed with its geopolitical ambition. We are fortunate to be joined by Dr. Mark Schneider, a senior analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy. He is one of the foremost experts on nuclear capabilities, missile defense, arms control, and general policy pertaining to Russia and China. He gives us an intelligence briefing on the true threat from Russia. Schneider explains how some of the very people complaining about Trump’s relationship with Putin are the ones who needlessly depleted our nuclear deterrent and promoted terrible arms deals that have re-empowered Russia to modernize their nuclear offensive capabilities. He concludes that with the right focus and only a little bit of money, we can make America’s nuclear deterrent great again and ensure Putin can never rival us. But unless we modernize our nuclear triad, the deterrent will collapse.   Show links Schneider on how to deter Russia without breaking the bank How Russia and China are modernizing while we are depleting our nuclear capabilities   Trump would be wise to discontinue the New START surrender treaty How Russia is lying about its nuclear program   Copyright CRTV. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Conservative Conscience.

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In Washington, politicians are full of half-trudes in hot air.

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The Conservative Conscience is here to help you cut through the rhetoric and noise and explore the politically right way to think about the issues.

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You'll dive into one of the most insightful conservative minds in America.

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Conservative Review Senior Editor Daniel Horowitz.

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Using pure common sense and ignoring the groupthink,

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Daniel breaks down the major issues in Washington.

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You are now entering the Conservative Conscience.

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And welcome back to the Conservative Conscience here at WestwoodOne podcast network powered by Conservative Review.

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And it is Wednesday afternoon, July 18th.

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And I'm telling you, it feels like it really feels like a Monday.

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It feels like everything this week is so unsorted.

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And it feels like every day the new cycle is kind of similar.

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And the reason why it feels like it's similar is because all you hear with regard to Russia,

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Russia, Russia, Russia, which is really a microcosm of everything else going on,

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is a bunch of false dichotomies.

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You know, this is something we've hit on a theme we've hit on since the primaries,

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since the general election, since the nascent months of the Trump administration,

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and going till now, that the problem we have is not Trump or not Trump,

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whether you love Trump too much or hate him too much,

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never Trump or always Trump or feel there should have been someone else

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in charge of the Republican Party and becoming president.

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