Barrack o bamer won the democratic nomination in two thousand and eight. He was a candidate who wasn't going to get united states into more stupid wars. But that didn't mean abama hada din ba administration had a military strategy for dealing with the syrian civil war. There's a number of possibilities that i think might have ensued that would have made the world different, or might have make the world anyway different than what it is now.
Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, a columnist for The New Statesman, and has been a regular contributor to the Talking Politics podcast. Her new book, Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century, looks at decades of geopolitical history that have fed into our current moment: one of war and conflict, nations competing for dwindling natural resources, and the climate emergency casting a long shadow. She joins journalist and author Andrew Mueller to discuss how we got here.
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