We Win, They Lose, with Matthew Kroenig | GoodFellows

[@nickgood8166]

Love these guys, dont agree with all, but I trust the integrity. This is rare these days.

[@HanzKetchup100]

I’m with ya on that, crowd sourcing is a great way to get information that otherwise would be difficult to get. A panel of people who are informed on the subject and examine it thoroughly is well worth it

[@tomcullen8367]

Great recommendation Matt! What is missing is Presidential leadership. Educate the American public to the threats we face and what sacrifices are needed to preserve our freedom! Go back and watch President Kennedy's report to the American people in 1961 on the Berlin crisis. That is what is needed!

[@brooklyn8787]

❤️ Reagan. He is desperately missed in America today.

[@searchingfortruth619]

Reagan with Alzheimer's did better than Obama.

[@garbonomics]

Love the show fellows. I always learn something when I watch an episode.

[@allencameron3419]

I never cease to be amazed at how warlike people who won’t be sent to fight can be

[@peredavi]

Since the beginning of time, there are planners, politicians, leaders and fighters.

[@jps0117]

What is "warlike"?

[@ai_serf]

@@jps0117 wanting a global hegemony that uses violence to force it's will upon the world.

[@y.a.2593]

He personally fought many battles. He’s put his life on the line many more times than you have read his wiki. what you even saying bru

[@lawrencefrost9063]

You must have missed the quote "If you want peace, prepare for war"

[@hailey0675]

After hearing the media swooning about the Harris/Walz ticket (wine aunt meets America’s dad), I so appreciate the sober adult conversation about real world issues and the need to strengthen our institutions provided by the GFs.

[@patrickcain9082]

Can you imagine Xi meeting with the giggling idiot, Harris?

[@tb8865]

These endless wars and shrill demands for regime change are not good for America. We need a serious change in foreign policy.

[@RamonesFan201]

How?

[@kevinjenner9502]

C.I.A. Criminals In Action

[@tnndll4294]

How do you contain Iran's nuclear ambitions? Should China invade Taiwan?

[@jacqquelinetackaberry5450]

They seem to think we are still in the 90’s 🤷‍♀️ It almost appears to be delusional ! I mean we can’t even provide ammunition anymore since we offshored the entire manufacturing base and the military is “woke” and getting sex change operations 🤷‍♀️ In addition to the way they have treated young white men the majority of service members no wonder they wouldn’t wanna fight for the SAME geniuses that had us in Afghanistan for 20 years not to mention of course the banking beast needing to be fed 😜

[@tb8865]

I don't know but saying we need to invade and/or sanction half the planet in order to replace entire governments is not the answer.

[@user-vp7oc9on8z]

Guys, love the series and have been listening quite regularly. One of my favorites was counterfactuals with Stephen Kotkin. So informative and a great way to understand how looking at past events could be helpful in making future decisions. That one really unpacked it and gave such a better perspective, I loved it. Hope you would consider doing it regularly. It would help others to get better perspectives, as it came from such a different angle. I did think your comments on increasing defense $ was great and needed but you might have included the most important aspect, how we've made gains by increasing our chip production and capacity right here on US soil and included this important and essential aspect in your comments. Under the current administration these investments in chip production will be the driver in increasing our defense capabilities and hopefully manufacturing and double what our investment returns are over time. Thank you for doing the series you are all great thinkers!

[@rskandari]

Wow the opening ❤

[@TheGreatWhiteScout]

Our foreign policy, both economic and diplomatic should be this: A best friend to our allies, an implacable opponent to our enemies, and a welcoming offer of future friend to those in between. Trouble with Venuezala? Help every other neighbor to them with both investments, security and diplomatic favor. To those who favor Madura? Treat them the same way AS Venuezala. Prosperity and friendship with America is a valuable reward. Let's leverage THAT instead of a broad universal tariff. All carrots or all sticks never works. Balance each to guide behavior and we'll go a lot further with our diplomacy.

[@tau3457]

The problem is that the US still maintains protectionist trade policies even with its allies. We (Australia) do 5x more trade with China because they are literally better trading partners than the US. We even do more trade with Japan than US because of this. If the US never drops their protectionist / closed market / tarrif based approach, it will never be able to influence its allies via trade.

[@dancaulfield1008]

@@tau3457 Australia is not a larger trading partner with China than the United States. That island has less people than California

[@snslifestyleorg]

Pretty unrealistic ideas when in reality many US allies love to do business with US enemies like China.

[@timthetiny7538]

@@tau3457 The US has the most open market on earth lol

[@allanvodicka8352]

John, talking about our manufacturing might in the 1950s when Germany Japan and all of Europe were on their knees it’s just not a relevant argument. as soon as those countries got back on their feet, they were beating us in manufacturing in many industries

[@b.alexanderjohnstone9774]

Even the Secret bloody Service is rotten and politically captured at the top.

[@leoraac]

Great discussion!

[@jeronimotamayolopera4834]

FIGHT.

[@thomasmazzola4760]

How does John not see a recession? Commercial real estate is dead, consumers have maxed out credit cards,residential real estate is dead and the unemployment rate is spiking. I see sparks everywhere John .

[@johnbull4138]

Why should America and Americans have to be the world’s policeman? Why is Europe not shouldering its fair share of the military. If I was a working class family from Nebraska I would want to know why my sons have to go fight on behalf of other countries while others sit idle. America cannot and should not do this alone. I’m British. The once great British military is a joke! It barely functions. Utter disgrace. Germany even worse. It’s about time some very tough serious conversations were had……

[@golfscienceguru]

Most if not practically all "Americans" are originally from Europe, thus, genetically as well as culturally, Americans have a lot of European in them. We speak English, as well as Spanish, which are European languages. The US has been on a volunteer-army for many years, since the Vietnam War. Your sons do not have to go fight whether on behalf of other countries, or even for the US. For many years after WW2, the US and its allies kept Japan and Germany extremely limited in their capability to wage war again, as they were perceived as war mongers. By severely limiting Japan and Germany to not build up their armies, the US had the default responsibility to provide some protection for them. When the Cold War started, both Japan and Germany are strategically located, and the US had to "butter up" to them during the Cold War era.

[@PapakShirazi]

Regime Change👍

[@JT-qs4tv]

A forced choice to fight or surrender is needed in the scheme of things.

[@xiaohui5186]

John Cochrane just said “meh, whatever” on tariffs across the board trade war. Come on, hacky take.

[@user-lk1sr7ir3q]

Mate, series of interviews is split into two types: the ones where the three fellows debate on contemporary issues and the ones in which they have a guest and they ask questions. I much more prefer more of first type.

[@eugene_dudnyk]

8:12 “the answer is (Iran) regime change” - you’ve got to change regimes in Iran, China, DPRK, and russian federation in order for that to be the answer

[@kevinjenner9502]

CIA / Coups R US / LLC…Iran (1953) Guatemala (1954) Congo (1960) Dominican Republic (1961) S Vietnam (1963) Brazil (1964) Chile (1973). The short list

[@eugene_dudnyk]

@@kevinjenner9502 Keep trying!

[@andreasbpunkt]

What could go wrong.

[@davidbaker6390]

I can't listen to these guys talk about foreign policy anymore. It's just a bunch of evidence free assertions and back patting. Since they lack the ability to explain and engage with opposing views they should try talking to someone who isn't 100 percent on board with everything they all think in common. It's boring as well as uninformative.

[@vaultsjan]

This has Delphi oracle and deciphers vibe to it. Matt and Elbridgw Colby and Vance live in very different worlds

[@garyrobbins9197]

With the Title "We Win, They Lose," I would suggest that it focus only on what Trump would do, but an equal focus on President Harris.

[@dustin2269]

We have just as authoritarian mainstream leaders in politics and business in the west. 3000 people in a year arrested in the UK for mean tweets. Having dinner parties and going out while enforcing martial law, time square for the mayor and his family on New Year’s Eve. Lindsey Gram.

[@donkeychan491]

People are blind to how corrupt and authoritarian these so-called Western "democracies" are.

[@panwkratke]

Waiting for the book. Cheers!

[@jesuslovesaves2682]

When the US and Western institutions cannot tell the difference between a man XY and a woman XX they have lost legitimacy. Of course, this started when they switched from tolerance to forced acceptance and celebration. Many things have been tolerated my entire life in a liberal fashion many people were okay with, myself included. There were different areas where different people lived differently, but people came together in certain situations where how each person lived wasn't in each other's face. But when you turn that into forcing everyone to have celebrate certain things, sometimes even for an entire month than these institutions have no legitimacy any longer for the people who prefer live differently. It is not just agencies but many intuitions: schools, libraries, media, tech companies, sports, entertainment, many business etc have all become pushers of certain views and topics and almost entirely to the left's liking with no room for descent. There may be some small local levels that this isn't the case but larger national and international business along with institutions that control local levels entities like teachers' union all follow this pattern. But there are some topics where the western elites have certain shared values whether left or right that no longer are agreeable with many of the common people. Those values are being pushed on the common people through all these institutions and many many people are fed up with it. We used to be able to go to work, play sports, have entertainment ect and live in different areas without our beliefs having to be every place all the time and celebrated with a winner takes all battle. Certain beliefs didn't have to take over every workplace, all entertainment, all sports with everything becoming a battle. Until this changes or one sides wipes out the other in a totalitarian fashion, we a stuck with this mess. I pray it's not the latter. I wish we could go back to actual tolerance instead of this use of force we are presently seeing. But I fear those who have the power would not like to go back when they think they have come so far, progressed so much. Of course, only in the direction those with the power want using it in a forceful way. At the end of the day, we are a divided nation on many levels though we have a shard: government, large corporate business world, schools, sports, entertainment etc. Until we can find a way of doing certain things together with our differences set aside than we are going to have problems. For government and certain institutions, the Catholic teaching of Subsidiarity works well. For other institutions well they need to focus on what they were created for sports/entertainment for fun, for the military to protect us, for business to make money and lift people out of poverty so they can support themselves, their families and communities, etc. Whenever possible people of different values and such can live in different areas where they have control over their own communities. It that not how this nation lasted as long as it did without all these problems? But hey I am just some random (Catholic) dude on the internet to modernize the William F Buckley saying. Blessings Maranatha

[@assafelron1]

Just a petty comment, but must defend Israel's defense forces, you said USA and its allies stopped the Iranian missile attack (and added "and Israel" at the end), while in fact Israel stopped the vast majority (90%) of the missiles and drones, and USA and other aliies the other 10%.

[@ericmetts2289]

Even with the Biden administration's deterrence failures I just don't understand for the life of me how you gentlemen can minimize and overlook what Trump and his clique did after the 2020 election leading up to January 6. This is absolutely unacceptable and I consider it to be the biggest foreign policy threat we face.

[@user-ol7nb4lb4y]

They keep downplaying it and talking past it. Seems disingenuous. I like most of what they have to say otherwise

[@Saunajallu]

The republican nominee attempted a literal coup and these guys spend their time making snide remarks at liberals. Makes you think.

[@DirkusTurkess]

Technically that would be a domestic threat. Seek help for your TDS.

[@skrewler]

Niall is my favorite, H. R. second, then Cochrane is dead last. I'm not sure why none of them will not criticize Trump on here or act like people who are critical have some derangement. I'd take them more seriously if they would just be fair -- Biden is far from perfect but there's no way I can vote for Trump with the election denial stuff and Jan 6. Both H. R. and Niall have seriously criticized Trump elsewhere, Niall said Trump should be disqualified from running even.

[@patdoherty6563]

MAGA hats needed for this episode ,still a great show though.

[@magejubes]

What made me sad was to here, “if Trump wins” as if the world could deal with a Harris presidency. If it is bad now, it will only be much worse. Wars will happen everywhere…even the US.

[@raf7665]

Funny to show Raegan in the beginning talking about appeasement when Trump is all about it

[@cubansoy]

Yeah, Trump has a bag of nuts and bolts in the place called brain. And the other option isn't much better.

[@justintindall9515]

Guys your brains blow me away! Girls and good times was my default.. lol

[@chemicalcowpoke307]

Interesting times.

[@Nik-ik8mv]

Currently it's we lose, they lose. Both US and China are on glide path to stagnation and decline. It's question who first reaches there.

[@rwrae72]

That's easy to answer. As long as the border with meh-hee-ko is open, we do.

[@gavinmc5285]

Given that the USA is strategically divesting itself from conventional government to private credit and the corporate state neither Democrats (especially) nor Republicans (less so) can confidently claim total security on the monopoly of coercion. Especially with PMC table options rising.

[@glennmitchell9107]

Would it help to reinforce a sense of service in government workers if they wore uniforms unique to their government function? Government workers are often faceless. How do you know someone is a government worker or not when walking down the street or sitting down in a restaurant? A uniform would instill some missing pride and hopefully some accountability. They could wear shoulder patches, including a U.S. flag, lapel pins, baseball hats with departmental logos, all sorts of stuff. Let them march in formation in parades.

[@NigelMiller-lf6nr]

I would have liked to have heard HR and JC push back on Matthew Kroenig's talking point of a 'forever war' in Ukraine, when it is the Ukrainian troops doing the fighting and dying in Ukraine - not American troops (other than US volunteers). Plus, the USA has the moral obligation to defend Ukraine's 1991 UN recognized borders - as the leader of the USA signed the 05 Dec 1994 Budapest Memorandum

[@andrewlm5677]

John points out that US manufacturing dominance in the 1950s was due to the fact that we were better. What we have now is that being able to make the cheapest product is the primary factor in judging who is best at manufacturing. The results of this are steep decline in quality where the consumer is having to replace the item more frequently and the garbage fills the landfill. I think this is ultimately a bad result that hurts all of us. That the regulation of the free market allowed for these results should tell us the rules were suboptimal and they should be fixed. I don’t expect easy answers for how to fix this problem (or any answers from a guy who would hire Peter Navarro) but we should recognize it as a problem and take actions that incentivize attempts to produce higher quality product in the US and to break the US consumer’s addiction to the foreign produced garbage at Walmart

[@gagamba9198]

_'we were better'_ A lot of investment in the late '30s and during the war. In the early '50s Europe was still rebuilding, so not much competition from overseas. Thereafter US became the sole market of choice for countries wanting to export their way to recovery and prosperity in exchange for the military alliance. Kennedy's Trade Expansion Act of '62 got the offshoring rolling, starting with textiles, garments, and footwear.

[@gavinmc5285]

Say what you want about Mr. Navarro but i'll remember him for his yellow cell spreadsheet matrix. On waste and recycling - there are obviously criminal components in the process or it wouldn't be so opaque. And it's not like 3D printing and amazon deliveries are going to undercut a Made in China legacy overnight.

[@glennmitchell9107]

Americans have less confidence in government because both political parties over promise and under deliver. What is the best way for a business to improve customer satisfaction? Under promise and over deliver.

[@chrisrecord5625]

McMaster previously understood "The Thucydides Trap".I am unsure if he does today.

[@MFJoneser]

Sustaining dominance in a region with force invariably generates some form of offensive or defensive terroristic tactics in response. A desperate but lesser player will deploy amoral methods. Does our guest truly understand this?

[@johanrocha8390]

10 minutes in and this feels like state sponsored media. C'mon y'all, can we get some actual deliberation? on some topics, the "debate," just sounds propagandistic, namely Israel. can we hear an opinion that is less than full-throated support for just more war?

[@glennmitchell9107]

Which is more complex, financial markets or the climate? Which will AI figure out first?

[@michaeljacobs4546]

FX experts will tell you the carry trade blowup was not a cause and an effect...but of what I am not sure.

[@b52-hnukesr69]

Having been part of the nuclear deterrence in the early to mid 1980s, China was part of the equation. Yes USSR was the primary threat no question.

[@jshellenberger7876]

#KING37 sometimes you just have to stand up and say, “do your job devil!” #POW MIA KIA MOH

[@tomburroughes9834]

I miss Ronald Reagan.

[@leeparsons8058]

Your show is interesting and informative. Too bad about the MAGA slant..a narrow perspective that tends to compromise the credibility for we non Americans..

[@samanthacat1211]

This makes sense though. Save money from speeding within the budget for stronger defense capabilities. Bring best policies to ensure economy growth. Never ignore our country America’s allies. Help allies, more alliances to support. Help known country, enough is enough instead of depleting our country America’s financial resources without enough money for defense spending. America can’t afford to lose greatness. America can’t afford to lose strength. America’s greatness and strength will subject to America’s safety, prosperity and Americans’ happiness quickly for sure. America 🇺🇸 should be able to achieve and American citizens should be able to build and establish by America’s constitution efforts together as one indivisible nation America 🇺🇸 together.

[@joshuap9580]

on Russian nuclear saber rattling what war is John Cochrane watching?

[@davidanderson9664]

Great chat gents but I don't think enough of the GoP is on Ukraine's side. And the Dems are HOPELESS on Israel, sadly. D.A., J.D., NYC

[@rosamariagarcia4189]

How aboutt doing a program about Venezuela and a real strategy for tha Latin America Axe.

[@kevinjenner9502]

ABC News 8/9/24. “Nagasaki marks 79th A-Bomb anniversary without US and other ambassadors after excluding Israel”

[@kevinjenner9502]

Well done Mayor Suzuki. Omedetou Gozaimashita!

[@casey203]

Are the improvements since 1945 really due to American foreign policy? I’d say it’s due to everyone embracing capitalism. Our interventions in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Vietnam etc didn’t improve their standard of living. Our economic example has done more for the world than our bombs and bullets.

[@johnhess5104]

You can’t solve Venezuela without solving Cuba.

[@gavinmc5285]

Veneuzela is the intersection of where the coca state meets the oil state.

[@chrisrecord5625]

Cochrane, we do not have soldiers in Ukraine.

[@HanzKetchup100]

Can you imagine a football team only playing their defensive squad? The other team can use both, so you defend, wait a few plays for your 4th down, punt, and repeat. You will lose that game period.

[@kennethobrien8386]

👍

[@vivianoosthuizen8990]

War was absolutely not the only way that was needed to establish peace nothing else were attempted and should have been surely this can become the conversation rather than praising the horrors of war as what caused peace it’s just not true at all

[@robertprawendowski2850]

⭐️

[@MrRpgrpgrpgrpgrpg]

I really love listening to your discussions but sometimes I feel like the gop you guys are talking about doesn’t even remotely exists anymore.

[@codrinvechiu2832]

How would China react to US striking Iranian nuclear sites ?

[@glennmitchell9107]

Why is the analysis always the U.S. versus Iran and not the U.S. coalition versus the Iranian coalition? How many allies does Iran have in the region that would be willing to fight alongside it against the United States? At the same time, how many enemies does Iran have in the region that would be willing to fight alongside the United States in such a war? We could once again be allied with the Taliban.

[@gagamba9198]

Is there a coalition? Of Europe, only Britain and France can project military power outside Europe (somewhat) and neither has the stomach for it. Certainly, Turkey isn't on board, so that eliminates Incirlik and Izmir. Would the Gulf states participate? Would they allow the US to base forces on their territories and launch attacks from where they are presently, for example Kuwait? Bahrain has a large Shi'ite population. Qatar is prickly and allowed both Taliban and Hamas officials to reside in the country. Ismail Haniyeh was buried in Qatar a few days ago. And let's not forget all the US military supplies going to Ukraine because most of Europe allowed their militaries to wither for three decades. A fight with Iran only further depletes the American stockpile and further taxes present productive capacity. What's left for South Korea and Taiwan if either of those kick off?

[@gavinmc5285]

the starting position is Iran vs Israel. Iran claims home status and challenges the fundamental existence of Israel. Iran's challenge to Israel is mostly devolved. That is to say Iran uses proxies and pays for its clients to act against its little regional iblis. The great Iblis (USA) is ironically what Iran aspires to (the hegemon) but as a modern state, Iran is actually younger than Israel (1979 as opposed to 1948 - 30 or so years). So Iran's rhetoric noticeably does not align with its reality. The role of the hijab and the function of the fashion police clearly runs deeper than a nailbar and whether IRGC green has a military patent. Many of the peoples and diaspora clearly have an issue with an increasingly repressive and pernicious regime. 45 years looks like a Cold War deal that has now given way to state terror and with the nuclear cap the IRI seeks, it would be an Islammunist Kremlin on nuclear droned steroids. Iran doesn't like the fact that Israel is a potential challenge to its existence except Israel isn't a fundamental challenge to Iran as a nation or a historical peoples, it is a challenge to the inward looking and insular nature of a thinly veiled Communist Islam. That's because - to call it as it is - Israel is a colonial democratic implant that is effectively the sum total of those Westphalian Empires that succeeded in survival at the beginning of the twentieth century. Obviously, that is anathema to an Islam (or rather, Islamic doctrines) that are largely balanced between the politics of the Middle Ages whilst using the technology of the twenty-first. Democracy, a component of which is to use reasoned debate to solve problems without first resorting to violent options, is still being tabled for representation amongst the Islamic states. Israel is representative of that spread yet still there is a violent reaction of rejection and the irony that the children of Israel are currently playing deaf dumb and blind to the opportunities that could be open to them is somewhat astounding. That'll be the Communist function (amongst perhaps other things) i guess.

[@kevinjenner9502]

August 19 is the anniversary of Eisenhower overthrowing the Iranian government, per Britain’s request. (CIA Operation Ajax…MI6 Operation Boot 1953)…The following year Eisenhower overthrew the government of Guatemala, removing their democratically elected President Jacobo Arbenz. (CIA Operation PBSuccess 1954)

[@chrisrecord5625]

At least 10 GOP Senators including Vance are isolationist. Trump, as well.

[@gavinmc5285]

individualism. negativity. rage. isolationism

[@prommann1234]

22:55 the US deployed 700k soldiers in the first Gulf war against a much smaller opponent with flat terrain, with no proxy war against Russia and no Cold War 2 against the largest industrial power in the world (China) to fight. As an economist Mr. Cochrane should be familiar with the concept of Resource Constraints, but maybe he forgets when his mind turns to foreign policy.

[@prommann1234]

27:30

[@tb8865]

Yeah, he did get some pushback on that though. I don't think people realize how difficult a war with Iran would be. America had months to stage the Iraq invasion, but Iran has the ability to project power to such an extent that staging would be difficult (especially without Turkey and Iraq on side). Iran is also very mountainous, a ground invasion would be a logistical nightmare.

[@vivianoosthuizen8990]

Iranian nation is literally the foundation of everything we now call civilised so why on earth did we destroy them to start with is what I am struggling with. Where is that elusive drive of humanity which is called love gone once again in modern times now? Where does the ideas of war and sanctions as solutions to human needs being met by leaders come from in a world where most are reasonably educated there surely are better that can be done

[@gavinmc5285]

Iran have been testing a 45 year experiment which is now failing

[@michaeljacobs4546]

Well at the end a comments: rational geopolitics (or coherent economic reasoning) don't play in Peoria

[@jps0117]

In a rare incidence, I disagree with H.R. McMaster at 56:00 regarding the Supreme Court. The institution needs serious reform; without that reform (enlarged size, term limits, mitigation of our presidents' capricious ability to nominate X number of judges -- e.g., Carter 0 and Trump 3), the Court -- while understandably not designed to reflect current political sentiment -- itself becomes a threat to democracy if SCOTUS diverges too far from societal evolution and public opinion in matters of paramount importance.

[@jps0117]

Also, at 1:01:00, from what my Lefty acquaintances say, Harris is assuredly not a creature of the Left, from their vantage point on the political spectrum.

[@jshellenberger7876]

#POW

[@user-tk1jj1cp9x4]

Nice Reagan quote at the beginning, but who are the appeasers? I live in Taiwan. These days, I have to take current events a little more seriously than I wish to. Trump is the guy telling anyone who will listen that he doesn't give a damn about defending this place. If we fall in Taiwan, so does the US alliance system in Asia. And probably in Europe too. Sorry, friends, but the War on Woke might have to wait a little while.

[@hjimenez26]

They're talking like it's the 90s. Old thinking that doesn't work in this 2024 world.

[@jimmiller1686]

you talk about Venezuela and Russia in our backyard, what about Mexico and Russia? The fact that your book says nothing on Latin America shows the level of ignorance in the minds of the Hoover Institute

[@prommann1234]

Iran has a right to defend itself.

[@gavinmc5285]

Iran has a right to defend itself from its regime.

[@GentlemanJack705]

It's really fun to watch you guys play armchair general about what's working and what isn't in the middle east while ya'll aren't actually responsible for the consequences of the decision-making.

[@jamesreid2644]

Do you think the decision makers don’t pay attention?

[@SB_McCollum]

Kinda like every news anchor, print media columnist, and congress member. Everyone gets to have their opinion.

[@charliesmash]

Sick burn bro.

[@jmass4207]

That describes the planner trying to get into a war and the one trying to avoid one equally, regardless of whether the outcomes match their intents. Or do you think the military should be a democracy?

[@Giorno.]

They aren't directly responsible but indirectly responsible since these warmonger intellectuals are the ones who influence the politicians who pursue these insane policies.

[@b52-hnukesr69]

Why do these guys hate Trump. Always make themselves look stupid after providing great thoughtful insight.

[@AA80453]

I do not think they hate Trump, but they wish his rhetoric designed to win elections. There is no substitute for victory.

[@robinasullivan7879]

Lies

[@gavinmc5285]

there's no such thing as money

[@EricRicRicRicRic]

I can follow the logic. But sometimes I wish people would be just a little more direct. The reason why white americans tend to care about europe and more about europe than any other part of the world is easily demonstrated by looking into a mirror or talking about their great grandparents or such. To refer to trade or other interests is not the entire story. White americans are part of an european civilization by any objective analysis and it is okay to care more for people that look like you and live like you.

[@27natedogg1]

Absolutely ridiculous of you to entertain the "who is running the government" question.

[@gavinmc5285]

Who is fighting to be running the government?

[@markjmacrae]

Strange that nobody questions to whether actions taken by Israel have any impact on other players in the region. Giving Israel carte blanche is just going to drag the world into a conflict to enable Netanyahu to keep a grip on power and avoid criminal prosecution, to say nothing of the indirect support for extremists within Israel.

[@AA80453]

I think everything you said here is disconnected from reality. Swing and a miss lol

[@timthetiny7538]

@@AA80453 He's absolutely correct.

[@hu6284]

Love it when a career economist with zero recognition for his work (Asset Pricing really?) talks forcefully about geopolitical affairs and military intervention.

[@andrewbaldwin4454]

Not sure you are being fair to the Clausewitz from Chicago. I started reading “The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level” but have put it aside for a while, maybe forever. Just the same, he does argue pretty convincingly that Friedman’s dictum that inflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon is too simplistic, and that if fiscal policy has been out of whack for a long time, monetary policy actions to reduce inflation may actually have the opposite effect. I am not saying these are John’s brilliant insights. He seems to have drawn heavily on the work of Brazilian economist Eduardo Loyo, but then, I woudn’t know anything about Loyo if I hadn’t read Cochrane. When he gets away from economics and starts talking about the War in Ukraine, I agree with you. He spouts warmongering nonsense, like one of the generals from the Kubrick film, “Doctor Strangelove”. And the closer Ukraine comes to collapse, the more unhinged he becomes.

[@gavinmc5285]

so is economics the continuation of warfare with extra means?