Daniel Bessner
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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and why the United States should, for example, send weapons to Ukraine, they almost never talked about democracy or protecting Ukrainian democracy.
They talked totally in the language of interests.
Blinken says, like, the United States needs to do this, otherwise there'll be another power and that will...
be bad for american interests they never talk about democracy and obviously this is tripled down with the second trump administration who never even pretends to have this sort of global human rights vision and what i think is really interesting here is that this is something that you don't only see in the united states you also see it in china and you also see it in russia
When you look at the national security strategies of China and Russia, there's almost no discussion of ideology.
For example, the Chinese national security strategy, you'd think they'd mention communism or socialism.
They mentioned it like something 13 times.
And they mentioned security hundreds and hundreds of times.
And in the Russian national security strategy, they barely mentioned ideology.
So what you see here, I think, and then we could talk more about this,
This is the consequence of what happens when all major nations on earth, basically every nation except North Korea, has embraced a capitalist form of organizing the industrial and post-industrial economies.
There's nothing really ideological to fight over any longer.
No one's promoting a fascist way to organize an economy.
No one's even promoting a communist way to organize an economy.
We're all different forms of capitalism.
So where Francis Fukuyama
said that the end of history would mean the triumph of liberalism.
What we see is that the end of history, which is to say the spread of capitalism, actually just means that liberalism itself is withering away.
And I think this explains a lot about international politics and also domestic politics.
Well, it could go either way, because when you look at what the United States thought about the Soviet Union, particularly in the 1950s, effectively until the Cuban Missile Crisis, American policymakers viewed the Soviet Union as totally illegitimate because it was so ideologically different.
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