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Flexible Realism

We discuss Trump's National Security Strategy and how it relates to three earlier visions for America's role in the world. Also, an ancient lesson from the Romans on mercy.

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Gaius and Germanicus survey the wreckage of Washington’s Ukraine narrative. Later, the conversation turns to Trump’s new National Security Strategy with its invocation of the Monroe Doctrine and a new concept called “flexible realism.”

Finally, we reflect on a lesson from the Romans. Is there a third way between mercy and annihilation? Having once been brought to yoke by the Samnites, the Romans ultimately decided their enemies must be reduced to bricks or else would inevitably return to bite them.

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