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Destiny

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

I would like to hope that Biden and the entire United States learned a lesson from Iraq and Afghanistan that open-ended missions with unlimited budgets and no clear goal are like the worst foreign policy decisions you can ever do. They've like defined US foreign policy for the past two or three decades, which is unfortunate, but seems to be the case.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

My feeling would be, and this is just a feeling, I don't know if internal cables have leaked that say otherwise, is the Biden administration has probably always had a quiet position of at some point there's going to be an off-ramp here. And I think even a month or two ago, I think those talks were being leaked, that discussion had begun with Zelensky looking for an off-ramp.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

My feeling would be, and this is just a feeling, I don't know if internal cables have leaked that say otherwise, is the Biden administration has probably always had a quiet position of at some point there's going to be an off-ramp here. And I think even a month or two ago, I think those talks were being leaked, that discussion had begun with Zelensky looking for an off-ramp.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

My feeling would be, and this is just a feeling, I don't know if internal cables have leaked that say otherwise, is the Biden administration has probably always had a quiet position of at some point there's going to be an off-ramp here. And I think even a month or two ago, I think those talks were being leaked, that discussion had begun with Zelensky looking for an off-ramp.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

But publicly, of course, the United States is never going to come out and say, we are going to support you guys to fight as much as you want for three months. And then after that, it's no more. Obviously, that can't be the statement. It's always going to be that we're going to support you in your fight against Russia.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

But publicly, of course, the United States is never going to come out and say, we are going to support you guys to fight as much as you want for three months. And then after that, it's no more. Obviously, that can't be the statement. It's always going to be that we're going to support you in your fight against Russia.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

But publicly, of course, the United States is never going to come out and say, we are going to support you guys to fight as much as you want for three months. And then after that, it's no more. Obviously, that can't be the statement. It's always going to be that we're going to support you in your fight against Russia.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

Yeah, you just can't do that. It's always going to come off as we're going to support you forever and as long as it takes and as long as you need, whatever we have to do to defend freedom and democracy in your country and any other statement would be absurd.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

Yeah, you just can't do that. It's always going to come off as we're going to support you forever and as long as it takes and as long as you need, whatever we have to do to defend freedom and democracy in your country and any other statement would be absurd.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

Yeah, you just can't do that. It's always going to come off as we're going to support you forever and as long as it takes and as long as you need, whatever we have to do to defend freedom and democracy in your country and any other statement would be absurd.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

I can understand why it feels like on a public level, a blank check and an indefinite time period was granted to Zelensky, but I don't think that's going to be the case. Again, I hope we've learned our lessons in the Middle East about the forever wars, that this isn't going to be a forever funding to Ukraine to fight for as long as they want. I do disagree.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

I can understand why it feels like on a public level, a blank check and an indefinite time period was granted to Zelensky, but I don't think that's going to be the case. Again, I hope we've learned our lessons in the Middle East about the forever wars, that this isn't going to be a forever funding to Ukraine to fight for as long as they want. I do disagree.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

I can understand why it feels like on a public level, a blank check and an indefinite time period was granted to Zelensky, but I don't think that's going to be the case. Again, I hope we've learned our lessons in the Middle East about the forever wars, that this isn't going to be a forever funding to Ukraine to fight for as long as they want. I do disagree.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

I feel like we're playing a little bit retrospectively saying that, well, it's obvious that they're not going to capture the Donbass. It's obvious that they're not going to capture Crimea. I agree for Crimea that was incredibly obvious, but it was also really obvious that in two weeks, Russia would own Kiev and Ukraine was going to be Belarus 2.0.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

I feel like we're playing a little bit retrospectively saying that, well, it's obvious that they're not going to capture the Donbass. It's obvious that they're not going to capture Crimea. I agree for Crimea that was incredibly obvious, but it was also really obvious that in two weeks, Russia would own Kiev and Ukraine was going to be Belarus 2.0.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

I feel like we're playing a little bit retrospectively saying that, well, it's obvious that they're not going to capture the Donbass. It's obvious that they're not going to capture Crimea. I agree for Crimea that was incredibly obvious, but it was also really obvious that in two weeks, Russia would own Kiev and Ukraine was going to be Belarus 2.0.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

I think that even for a lot of military people and analysts around the world, that that was an expectation or at least a significant probability. Nobody knew, the phrase that's thrown around now is paper tiger, that Russia's military was as ill-equipped as they were. So I can understand why, especially if you're Ukraine and if you've repelled an invasion from one of the world's largest

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

I think that even for a lot of military people and analysts around the world, that that was an expectation or at least a significant probability. Nobody knew, the phrase that's thrown around now is paper tiger, that Russia's military was as ill-equipped as they were. So I can understand why, especially if you're Ukraine and if you've repelled an invasion from one of the world's largest

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

I think that even for a lot of military people and analysts around the world, that that was an expectation or at least a significant probability. Nobody knew, the phrase that's thrown around now is paper tiger, that Russia's military was as ill-equipped as they were. So I can understand why, especially if you're Ukraine and if you've repelled an invasion from one of the world's largest

Lex Fridman Podcast
#410 โ€“ Ben Shapiro vs Destiny Debate: Politics, Jan 6, Israel, Ukraine & Wokeism

armies why you might feel like well fuck it you know let's fight for a few months let's fight for a year let's see what happens and i can understand the united states supporting them but i agree that there has to be some reasonable off ramp but we're not going to fight forever i think the u.s um state department has already begun those conversations with zelensky to look at what that off ramp looks like um