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Published · transcript-backedBruno Maçães: evaluation
26 Sept 2018 Conversations with Tyler Bruno Maçães on the Spirit of Adventure
“The underlying flaw with Obama is always the same, is that he really took seriously this idea that history has a direction, that it’s going somewhere, to the point where, I think, at some point, he wasn’t even trying to change reality.”
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- 26 Sept 2018
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…If President Obama underrated Russia as a world force, what was the underlying flaw in his worldview that caused him not to see that? The underlying flaw with Obama is always the same, is that he really took seriously this idea that history has a direction, that it’s going somewhere, to the point where, I think, at some point, he wasn’t even trying to change reality. He was trying to get out of the way of reality. That, to me, is almost impossible to understand, how he could believe in something like that. If you read that interview he gave to Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, that comes up on every issue. It doesn’t matter if it’s Vietnam or Russia or China. His immediate answer would be, “Well, history is going in this direction. Let’s get out of the way and let it work its wonders.” Is the United States the country that understands Russia least well?…
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