Dan Carlin's Common Sense · Dan Carlin
Show 322 - Betting on Long Shots
August 31, 2021·55 min·4 clips
Brzezinski asked if he regretted arming future terrorists and answered: 'What is more important, the Taliban or the end of the Cold War?'
As heard by us
Carlin uses Cold War proxy logic to question later American confidence and the thin line between strategy and hubris.
Dan Carlin opens by bristling at the idea that political commentary becomes a lifetime obligation, then moves into the more interesting problem: how great powers justify risky bets when direct war is too dangerous to admit.
Why you'd press play
You will not look at the phrase 'indispensable nation' the same way after this.
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