Tom Nichols
speaker
2,378 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 19 May
Tom Nichols’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It happens because
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Arrogant, hubristic, uninformed people take measures that they can't see the end step of.
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I think Putin – that's why Putin's – I don't think Putin wants a nuclear war, but I think Putin is reckless and thinks he has more control as Donald Trump does.
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I think he thinks he has more control over events than he really does.
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Yeah.
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But I think it's worse than that.
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I think he thinks that by doing things like this, he's actually making you safer.
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Right.
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To say, you know, the Russians are doing bad.
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I'll restart nuclear testing.
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That'll show them and that'll keep it.
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And he just doesn't understand because he doesn't understand very much about any of these issues, especially when it comes to national defense, that these are actually more dangerous things to do.
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And, you know, it's kind of the guy with the grenade, right?
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It's kind of like you're about to be mugged and somebody's got a knife and the guy says, I'll stop this robbery.
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I have a hand grenade.
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You're like, what are you doing?
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I'm sorry?
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Well, I don't sleep much, Don, so everything is the answer.
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The concerns I have, I mean, first of all, yes, I am terrified that this group of people
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without adult supervision, have access to the nuclear arsenal.
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