Lex Fridman Podcast
#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
There are frozen conflicts in the Donbass, in Kaliningrad, in Transnistria, in Taiwan, in Korea, virtually all the borders of Africa and Eurasia.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
were drawn by European powers to either divide and conquer their enemies or artificially group their enemies together in order to keep them internally divided and conquered in those ways.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
So there are a great many borders in the world that are in contention and that people might even want to fight about.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And I think that America could play a wonderful role in helping to negotiate and resolve those types of conflicts.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
without resorting to force or even making any promises on the part of the U.S.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
government, like we'll pay Egypt to pretend to be nice to Israel or anything like that, but just find ways to host conferences and find resolutions to these problems.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And I think quite sincerely that Donald Trump right now could get on a plane to Tehran
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
He could then go to Moscow, to Beijing and Pyongyang, and he could come home and be Trump the Great.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
We, in fact, don't have to have, especially the American hyper power, as the French called it, the world empire.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
We have everything to give and nothing to lose to go ahead.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And Donald Trump even talked like this.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
You might remember when he first was sworn in this time, he said, you know what?
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Instead of pivoting from terrorism to great power competition with Russia and China, I don't want to do that.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
I just want to get along with both of them.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Let's just move on and have the rest of the century be peace and prosperity and not fighting at all.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Why should we have to pivot to China?
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Let's just pivot to capitalism and trade and freedom and peace.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
That's America first.
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
And look, man, there used to be a time when a third of the planet was dominated by the communists, right?
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#473 โ Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
So I'm not going to sit here and argue the first Cold War with you.