Scott Horton
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all right what's up everybody welcome to a brand new episode of part of the problem i am dave smith very excited uh for today's episode okay a couple quick uh things let me get them out of the way and then we'll get right into it number one uh tomorrow i'm headed up to buffalo new york i'll be there with robbie the fire bernstein or no i'm sorry friday and saturday no no
What are Dave Smith's upcoming events?
Thursday and Friday in Buffalo, and then Saturday night in St. Catharines. Two shows up there. The first one is already sold out. The second one is going to sell out. If you want to come, grab tickets now, comicdavesmith.com. And then the other, and you get all the ticket links for my calendar for the rest of the year there. And the other thing is, of course, remember, I am returning to the Soho Forum in May, debating Alex Norwestash. I still don't know how to say his last name, from the Cato Institute. We'll be debating immigration. Tickets for that are moving quickly. So if you are in the New York City area and you want to come out, go to thesohoforum.org to get tickets there. And also, if you're in the New York City area, go check out one of Gene Epstein's debate series there. Sohoforum.org is a great, great organization, great debate series. Gene Epstein is one of our best guys, and I always enjoy everything he does. Okay.
Why is Scott Horton's book 'Provoked' significant?
We got back on today's show, the legend Scott Horton, Antiwar.com, the Libertarian Institute, and of course, the author of this phenomenal book, Provoked, which is really the book you need to read to understand war. build up to the current catastrophe in Ukraine and really a whole history of U.S.-Russia post-Soviet relations. And it's really a wild story. And it's I'm sure it's kind of been cool for you, Scott, that you know so okay so you wrote this phenomenal book uh years ago called fool's errand and it was about the war in afghanistan and then you wrote uh enough enough already which was about the all of the terror wars but it did feel like those books It was a recent history. I mean, okay, Afghanistan, I think was still going on as you wrote the book, but it was, it had totally been accepted that like, yes, this war was a disaster. It was kind of, everyone had agreed, you know, the same with the terror wars too. This thing is like, your book is coming out. You're still in the middle of your book tour and it's become like the biggest issue that everybody's talking about.
So that right away has got to be kind of interesting from your perspective.
Yeah, and I'm getting almost universally good feedback from it. I've had very little substantive criticism, a lot of Russian asset and Russian talking point type garbage. On a substantive basis, they seem to have not read the thing because they'll accuse me of never addressing stuff that has a whole section of its own and whatever in there. I don't know.
What was the impact of the Trump-Zelensky meeting?
But look, it did get up to the top 300 on all of Amazon. It's now still in the top 1000. I believe in the top 700 something or 600. No, I think 700 something on Amazon. It's still number one in War and Peace.
still in the top uh top 40 in all history on amazon so and that's three and a half months and if it wasn't for jimmy carter dying and dave chappelle recommending his book peace not apartheid on um saturday night live then i'd have been number one in war and peace the whole time but jimmy carter kind of he snaked my title for a minute there but i got it back
That's good people were reading that book. It's not a bad book for people to read. I've never read it, but I'm familiar with the thesis of Jimmy Carter's book.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who are the guests and sponsors of this episode?
0:00–0:59
2
What are Dave Smith's upcoming events?
0:59–1:53
3
Why is Scott Horton's book 'Provoked' significant?
1:53–3:40
4
What was the impact of the Trump-Zelensky meeting?
3:40–7:07
5
How has the Ukraine conflict evolved according to Scott Horton?
7:07–15:02
6
How is Tax Network USA helping taxpayers?
15:02–19:40
7
What are the political implications of Trump's actions on Ukraine?
19:40–58:05