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Stephen Kinzer: “We are always looking for ways to pressure other countries…”

Featuring: Stephen Kinzer, Critic of interventionist U.S. foreign policy | Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs | National

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Tulsi Gabbard and Stephen Kinzer Discuss U.S. Foreign Policy and the Cost of War

Published | Video Starts at 1:07:42

It sort of makes us feel good that America is this little country and we have terrible enemies all over the world. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't see it that way. No. So We are always looking for ways to pressure other countries to do what we want and become more like us. It's very difficult for us to understand that many countries don't want this. So the world is really not flat. Everybody doesn't want the same things that we want. (1:07:42–1:07:52)

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