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5 Oct 2022 Conversations with Tyler Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy
“I think the idea that the existence of nuclear weapons means that we can all forget international politics just doesn’t work.”
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- Walter Russell Mead
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- 5 Oct 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…But now we have nuclear weapons, so that won’t happen again. Say we kept half our nuclear weapons, cut the defense budget in half. [laughter] Right. Well, if you believe that people are rational actors, perhaps. When I think about nuclear weapons, I ask myself, if Adolf Hitler had had a couple of nuclear weapons in the spring of 1945, would he have used them? He absolutely would. I think the idea that the existence of nuclear weapons means that we can all forget international politics just doesn’t work. How has the decline of American religiosity influenced US foreign policy?…
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