Bob Kagan

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1,471 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 29 Jul

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But whether it give or take, he's at roughly 40 percent.

That tells us something about the limits on him as well.

Right.

And again, not to repeat myself, but I just think we don't really understand about what it means when they have all the power.

Well, there's two things.

There's the foreign policy side of it, and then there's domestic side of it.

I'll just dispense with the domestic side quickly.

Why was Stephen Miller so gung-ho about Venezuela?

Was he concerned about oil?

No.

For him, it is about domestic politics.

And the more that you can say, we are at war with someone, the more power the president theoretically has domestically.

So there's that.

There's also the fact that I think that there's no question that they are trying to militarize American society in many ways.

And it goes with the use of the military abroad and also the sort of desire to use the military at home.

We've become an increasingly militarized society under Trump, and that's deliberate on their part.

So this sort of let's go bomb people, let's go kidnap people.

It just shows how strong I am.

Donald Trump, it shows how our military is the greatest institution, et cetera.

And I'm a big fan of our military.

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