Autocracy in America Ep. 5: The Storm Before the Calm
The space between crusading global policeman and “America First” isolationism is where my latest guest plants a flag of analysis and concrete interests.
I grew up admiring the moral stands of Soviet dissidents like Sakharov, and what I saw as the beacon of individual freedom, America.
My guest this week, foreign policy expert George Friedman, instead talks interests and analysis in our conversation. And the timing of today’s episode could not be more perfect.
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