Bob Kagan
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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They were already going to be a challenge, but now I think they're going to be a much greater challenge.
And I think that we have increased the likelihood that China will at some point either absorb Taiwan peacefully or take it through a
through a blockade or some other measure.
I think we are essentially encouraging the next war in Europe if Putin decides to do something.
And then the question comes, at what point does this sort of retreat
get to the point where it's too far for Americans.
They actually don't want to retreat anymore.
And this, of course, is sort of what happened before World War II, which was, well, Italy invaded Ethiopia, and then there was the Spanish Civil War, and the Nazis and the fascists involved in that.
And then there was the Anschluss with Austria.
And we were all like, we don't care.
We don't care.
It doesn't matter to us, et cetera.
Then France falls, and it's like, whoa, I don't know.
And so ultimately, we're in World War II.
And so-
At what point do we reach where everybody says, Trump, you've allowed now Russia to invade Estonia.
We have to do something about it.
But then the doing something about it does bring us up to...
the nuclear threshold because then we will be having to contemplate going to war with Russia.
A lot of what we've been doing for decades has been avoiding that in part by guaranteeing others security and letting Russia know that we will stop them and we will get involved
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