Longtime author and Cato Institute Ted Carpenter joins us this week to talk about how the US-Russia-Ukraine crisis is an illustration of Cold War American military primacy and hegemony. If there is a conflagration in upcoming days and months it will be in no small part because of poor decisions made by U.S policymakers, pushed by establishment thinking and interests, over the last two decades, says Carpenter. In the first segment, Dan and Kelley talk about Biden's decision to give half of the Afghans' frozen bank funds to a settlement for 9/11 families at a time when the country's economy is collapsing.
More from Ted Carpenter:
Gullible Superpower: U.S. Support for Bogus Foreign Democratic Movements (2019)
Hawks Smear War Opponents, Again -- Antiwar.com - 2/8/22
With Russia & China, America’s righteous crusader routine is getting old -- Responsible Statecraft -- 2/1/22
The US finds its new monster to destroy: post-Soviet Russia, with Ted Carpenter