Jordan Schneider
speaker
408 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 21 May
Jordan Schneider’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because I agree with the thesis.
So during the Cold War, you did not have these dynamics between the U.S.
and any kind of non-Warsaw Pact country.
Right.
You know, and then we had this really nice, you know, 25 years from 1990 to, you know, 2013, 2014 or so, where, like, as long as you weren't Iran or North Korea, you kind of got to play the same game.
Everyone was kind of on the same side.
And the benefits to the Ricardian version of international commerce.
any sort of latent concerns that weird history nerds had about the return to a world where you had great powers kind of competing much more directly than they did in the past.
Look like we now have policy that's basically driven by three people.
And that is new.
I'm trying to work out which three you're talking about.
I think we got like Trump, we got Lutnik, we got Bessence and then, you know, give Jay, give JD like 25%.
I don't know.
We'll see how many group chats he ends up being on, but like there was a mode of policymaking that I think America really recoiled from.
FDR, he was president for three and a half terms.
He basically shot from the hip.
And it was what he said goes and all of his buds just like listen to what he did.
And there was an understanding at the start of the Truman administration that there needed to be institutionalization, that you needed sort of more people thinking about these things, more planning.
The world's a really complicated place.
We got to trade off all these different dynamics and interests and think about the military and the economic and the diplomatic and the social components so that you need bureaucracies.
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