Blake Lively
speaker
442 appearances
16 recordings
8 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 6 May
Blake Lively’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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just on a human level, if you're asking people who would be in a position to negotiate after you take out one layer of leadership to then be more reasonable rather than more radical and more doggedly opposed to the United States, again, that is a very, I mean, you are betting a lot on that particular idea of what would happen if you do that.
And then what, of course, to your point happens when you're trying to host negotiations in the future and people worry that it's a setup for them
To get killed or drowned in the process.
The long-term ramifications of that way of prosecuting a war are just, frankly, insane.
Insane.
But it keeps happening, of course.
Well, I was just going to say, I mean, it also, the power of it fades over time if it's not then followed up.
And I'm certainly very happy that he didn't follow up on his threat to wipe out an entire civilization.
But it only goes so far.
If you continue to speak in the bellicose rhetoric and then it turns out to just be rhetoric, just even tactically, that doesn't fulfill its own goal.
So the power of it wanes over time anyway.
It's sort of like with the tariffs, which I've been pretty supportive of, to be honest.
basically this idea that you can, you know, posture, get the markets to go in one direction or the other.
Well, some countries have started to bet against the United States and do their business elsewhere and say, well, we can't rely on the United States anymore.
We can't rely on the word of the president because it changes.
And so we're just going to hedge our bets and go somewhere else.
He's doing something similar, I think, on the foreign policy level and the power of being able to intimidate other countries into agreeing with you to coerce them.
It does wane over time.
It's not something that lasts forever.
Right.
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