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TMBS ReAir 98 - Ilhan & AOC Outclass Pelosi & Post-Empire Politics ft. Daniel Bessner

The Michael Brooks Show

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The Bifurcation Between a Good War and a Bad War

The idea that the United States is going to have wars was very big amongst democratic discourse in the 2000s and even is still there. The absence of the Soviet Union create the intellectual space for American foreign policy makers to frame international relations as a passion play, says Julian Zelizer. But what this ignores is that all wars are wars of necessity; every single U.S. war since 1812 has been a war of choice.

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