Is It the Policemen of the Global Commons?

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There's a lot of evidence, really good evidence, including a washington post expersey at the end of two thousand 18. The problem is that they get in there with all their brass and they ask this, what's really going on? And they're basically fudging it. If civilian eisenhauer was in a positionBasically, he would sort of know the other side of the game. But ama, you know, is a state senatorom illinois. You know, an byden is, a senator from, you know, te te knows,. frequently very intimidating.

In this conversation based on his new book, The Stupidity of War, political scientist John Mueller argues that American foreign policy since 1945 has been one long miscue; most international threats — including during the Cold War — have been substantially exaggerated. The result has been agony and bloviation, unnecessary and costly military interventions that have mostly failed. With international war in decline, complacency and appeasement become viable diplomatic devices and a large military is scarcely required.