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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
19 Mar 2025 Conversations with Tyler Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda
“You go to West Germany, and you tell people, “Well, this is how it’s going to be.” I think there’s just no enthusiasm.”
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…It does. They were told it’s important, but American soldiers are amongst the best in the world. America does that. I know there’s an issue with Haredi, but Israel clearly does that. You go to West Germany, and you tell people, “Well, this is how it’s going to be.” I think there’s just no enthusiasm. People haven’t grown up with guns or martial spirit. There’s a culture of vacation. It just seems like an obviously huge gap to me, where America is clearly in the lead. Ukraine great, Israel, but not many places. That’s how we should think of a state capacity. Don’t you think in Germany, though, that that reflects an absorbed view of maybe that martial . . . It is not as if there’s something in the German people that is unwilling to fight and die for their country.…
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