12 - Dan Caldwell - Impeachment and International Relations
Politics: Meet Me in the Middle
English - January 23, 2020 11:00 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPolitics News Government politician ed larson conservative politics donald trump president democrat republican liberal political Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Pepperdine Professor Dan Caldwell joins Historian Ed Larson to talk about Impeachment and its impact on international relations especially in the Middle East. 1:45 - Impeachment and its international ramifications. 2:30 - Similarities between court procedings and Impeachment. 5:30 How will the Senate vote? 6:45 - What do our allies think? 8:00 - What's the effect on internation "enemies"? 8:45 - What role does Israel, Saudi Arabia and other gulf countries play? 10:40 Arms Control versus an arms race. 13:10 - US influence and the world's police. 15:03 - Historic role of Russia in the gulf states and the US elections. 18:10 Russia compared to US Isolationism versus empire building. 19:55 short term tactics versus long term strategy. 21:00 Idealism versus pragmatism. 22:55 - The Unity Campaign and voter polarization.
Hosted by Ed Larson and Bill Curtis
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