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Brian Schatz: “We have geostrategic geopolitical reasons to keep places…”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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A Conversation With Senator Brian Schatz

Published | Video Starts at 42:09

And so wanted to give you the chance to talk about where you see that fitting in, certainly with the 26 bill and beyond. We have geostrategic geopolitical reasons to keep places from becoming failed and from having instability, metastasized from radicalization, and also to give countries an opportunity to get on their own two feet. And there are so many success stories of where American foreign policy and USA in particular, has situated a country in a way that they can start to thrive. (42:09–42:25)

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States the importance of preventing geopolitical instability and supporting countries' development for strategic reasons.

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