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Show 319 - A Recipe for Caesar

Common Sense with Dan Carlin

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The Knot of War

  • Dan Carlin quotes Nikita Khrushchev's letter to John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • Khrushchev warned against pulling too hard on the "knot of war."
  • The knot could become so tight that no one, not even the one who tied it, could untie it.
  • Cutting the knot would have dire consequences.
  • Dan Carlin warns that the equivalent in our current political climate would lead to violence.
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