Rudyard Griffiths

Maybe you can explain that.

the origins of this, that phraseology, where it comes from and why it's important.

Yeah.

So we've got Stephen Walt coming back with John Mearsheimer, too.

I think of the smartest, most thoughtful.

I wouldn't even call them isolationists.

I just think kind of skeptics about military power, especially American power and its consequences in the world.

And then on the other side, too.

seasoned practitioners of American power, Pompeo, Mike Pompeo, the former head of the CIA and Secretary of State in the first Trump administration, and Victoria Nuland, who is a singular figure in American foreign policy for really the last generation, a career civil servant in the State Department, major roles in the Ukraine movement,

both prior to the war and after with the Biden administration.

I think it'll be a feisty, informative debate on Ukraine, the Iraq.

Sorry, we're on from the Iraq war.

We're now to the Iran war and lots of different points in between China, what might happen there with the Straits of Taiwan.

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Correct.

Well, to jump in today's show, we are going to catch up on the Iran war.